Endwalker sucks

[AwesomeJr44]

Horrible job design. Horrible 2-minute meta.

I feel that the issue is blown out of proportion but yes.

Horrible QA. Bugs everywhere. Hotfixes every other microsecond.

Yes.

Horrible post-launch story. Boring characters like Zero. Boring Void story. Even the actual 6.0 story was controversial and in retrospect was a plot full of holes and horrible pacing.

Yes.

Raids are mediocre despite two Ultimates. DSR was fine, but TOP is horribly designed, with the 2-minute variance feeding to the misery. Savages are mostly boring with a few standouts like 10S. Pacing in Savage fights is atrocious, and on many fights it feels like a mindless grind to get the prog spot again. And several are just carbon copies of previous fights like P11S vs E11S.

P2, P4, P5, P8, P10, P12 from what I've seen so far. That is the list of good savage raids this expansion. The others are either mediocre, boring, or outright bad. I cannot speak for DSR, and TOP deserves to get deleted from the game.

Island Sanctuary is a spreadsheet simulator. It's Finance Investment Simulator 2023 instead of Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley. Is it content if you have to choose between opening up Excel and typing some formulas or copying the Discord's recommendations and then putting it in game? Only reason why it even takes more than 2 or 3 minutes each week is because the UI in Island Sanctuary is atrocious.

Yes.

Criterion is fun, but no one does it because they cannot design incentives at all. Even if you want to do it no one else does.

Yes.

Dungeons are as boring as usual. Trials are lame with long downtimes of nothing happening. People only like Golbez because it doesn't suck as much.

Yes.

Orthos is literally the same old deep dungeon unless you are doing solo runs. Zero innovation. And if you solo it's a far easier, dumbed down version of PotD/HoH.

It is a more annoying version of PotD/HoH. So yes.

EW Relic is the lamest relic by far. There is zero accomplishment in getting them.

Yes.

Endwalker is the perfect game for people who do not want to play the game.

Yes.

Endwalker sucks

TLDR: Yes.

[VictorSpoils]

It is a more annoying version of PotD/HoH. So yes.

Apparently their formula for Orthos was less menacing auto-attacks but deadlier AoEs, especially for the earlier floors. The bosses were definitely harder too.

[GaiusDrakon]

Apparently their formula for Orthos was less menacing auto-attacks but deadlier AoEs, especially for the earlier floors. The bosses were definitely harder too.

Those auto-attacks are exactly why PotD and HoH are hard. It also means the timer is an actual concern and forces you to choose your mobs carefully and manage your pomanders.

The deadly AoEs mean nothing and the bosses are like alliance raid difficulty.

[Aword3213]

Horrible QA. Bugs everywhere. Hotfixes every other microsecond.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Make me RP Walk Backwards like Im Moonwalking and Im IN!

[VictorSpoils]

Throwback to 6.1 when I was testing out the new PvP jobs and got a Fuma Shuriken stuck to me:

[Bunnycake]

I'm surprised you haven't been banned yet.

He has a bajillion alts so he's here for a good long time.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

He has a bajillion alts so he's here for a good long time.

He pays for multiple alt accounts just to troll the forums?

That's... kinda sad and expensive.

[Atelier-Bagur]

The problem here is that not all content is consumed equally. This is where the crux of some of the issues starts to appear when you look at Endwalker. e.g., there is a diverse amount of content, but in the long-term, it is not really content that will keep people consistently engaged.

Sure, you can get to rank 16 in IS, but then what? It's just another weekly task that with current resources is no more time-consuming than doing, say, Doman Reconstruction in Stormblood.

Comparing the patch history only really gives a surface analysis of the content.

I'm all for taking a dump on Eureka and Bozja and calling it a glorified FATE simulator - But regardless of this it still kept people occupied quite extensively. Did I enjoy it? Nah. But I still spent an obscene amount of hours doing it.

Yeah but too bad it wasnt a "fun" occupation. I got into Bozja during 5.5 so I knew I had everything available to me, but the entirety of the content that matters within it still took me about a week and half at best to complete (this includes doing the relic). And by then I saw a lot of people hating it for being grindy and boring.

So now that EW decided to take a break from exploratory zones, all of sudden, people are whining that they miss it and get all nostalgic when it was literally just 3 years ago. I just find it super funny how quickly people's tone change and not in a good way.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It is irrelevant... you can compare the patches up to each step and see which expansion got the most and whatever.

Also it is important to point out not all content might suit you... however for most of us, we like most of it and some of it we dodge or just complete instead of ranting on the fora... you should switch the record, it seem to have gotten a crack in it, that or you may need to replace the needle on the pick-up.

Also the fact that me being a huge nerd of this game, went through an alt going through expansion's content patch by patch by using this handy wiki that nicely lists what got added https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Game_release in each release

So GaiusDrakon is technically wrong here...I HAVE played the game patch through patch, even with the minor QoL changes to certain pieces of content. His argument is invalid.