Unenthused About Dawntrail

[SongOfTheWind]

I sadly regret the pre-order after what benchmark introduced. And it can’t be refunded, as part of it are items which are immediately distributed (at least how ps4/5 expansion licenses work).
I also wish housing system didn’t hold some of us hostage. So I can’t even cancel my subscription until I am sure I will never coming back, as otherwise I am loosing that emotional investment I’ve built.

[Windfire]

I was excited for DT till it became obvious that they were pushing Krile (always hated her) & hairier and even MORE annoying Lyse (Wuk Lamet) front & center. Then the graphics "update" butchered my main so yeah, zero excitement here.

[Roda]

Slower or faster, pictomanser's animations so far were all low poly cartoon versions of existing skills which, personally, looks very off to me.

I'm rather neutral on the aesthetic rn, but I can stand by PIC's spells being super derivative of every other caster's spells being quite disconcerting.

One day we'll get a caster who doesn't cast fireball :^)

[LittleImp]

hairier and even MORE annoying Lyse (Wuk Lamet)

A lot of the games central characters underwent a process of flanderization over time, resulting in the weird comfort character versions of the original scions that we have today.

SE now feels like they're trying to skip the 'process' entirely, and are just engineering characters that are incredibly shallow and come functionally pre-flanderized out of the box.

Wuk Lamat and Zero are both examples of this, and I wonder if Wuk Lamat will experience the same meteoric falloff in popularity that Zero did as the patches went on.

[WantlessYoYo]

A lot of the games central characters underwent a process of flanderization over time, resulting in the weird comfort character versions of the original scions that we have today.

SE now feels like they're trying to skip the 'process' entirely, and are just engineering characters that are incredibly shallow and come functionally pre-flanderized out of the box.

Wuk Lamat and Zero are both examples of this, and I wonder if Wuk Lamat will experience the same meteoric falloff in popularity that Zero did as the patches went on.

Wait Zero fell off?
Wasn't aware of that, been seeing her being solid enough in social media with people screaming their lungs for her to think she had been a popular one

[Arkdra]

Wait Zero fell off?
Wasn't aware of that, been seeing her being solid enough in social media with people screaming their lungs for her to think she had been a popular one

Nobody who posts anything on these forums has any actual data to back up the shit they say. And yes, that includes me.

[Ath192]

Wait Zero fell off?
Wasn't aware of that, been seeing her being solid enough in social media with people screaming their lungs for her to think she had been a popular one

Zero was literally a hollow character. Maybe people liked her looks? She didn't know anything. After spending some time with us she was like uhhhhh... Okay.... I want to be good too I guess... /smile.

I think if anyone likes zero maybe they actually like the potential the character could have or how they envision them in their minds but if you just take what was there... well there wasn't a lot.

[Priddy]

Yeah there is definitely a strong sense of “inertia” so to speak with the community right now

The collective community hasn’t been excited about the game since like 6.0 which is near 3 years ago at this point and a large part of the community has had large game altering grievances for nigh on 5

What’s there really to be excited about for what appears to be a “stage setter” expansion when we have been in the “bubbling along not actively terrible but not great” inertia stage for 3 years now, especially since the benchmark didn’t land with a lot of people (healers what a surprise) and we have functionally nothing else even though launch is 2 months away

I think you are *strongly* overrepresenting the community at large here, just saying. The overwhelming majority of players aren't in this thread. People who are happy with the status quo and excited for what's to come don't have much reason to make forum posts.

[PercibelTheren]

Wait Zero fell off?
Wasn't aware of that, been seeing her being solid enough in social media with people screaming their lungs for her to think she had been a popular one

This is purely anecdotal, but it seems to have happened in my friend group. We all thought she was cool at the start, until it became clear she's basically a game version of someone's Deviantart OC.

[OgruMogru]

I know my experience of the base expansion will be solid. I'll have a nice time exploring the new zones and experiencing the story with my partner [we've played everything together since 2.4] It's what comes after that makes me anxious. Very concerned about job changes and encounter design overall [bf is a Sch and he's...not been loving it or the state of healers overall for 2 expacs now] and how the lull and lack of enthusiasm will affect people in our extended social circle for raids and battle content. That particular interpersonal aspect kinda felt more difficult in EW and I'm not optimistic about how that will be going forward -_-