Questions about your reception to Dawntrail

[Striker44]

Of the pre-launch periods I've seen since I started playing the game in StB, I feel like this one is the first with this many people either uneasy or straight up apathetic to the newest expansion. I haven't seen reactions as polarizing on the short time I've been using the forums, so I got curious.

Hopefully it'll be a good way for Squenix to gather data on both what is keeping the satisfied party here, and what is pushing the unsatisfied party away.

• When did you start playing?
• Will you play DT at launch, and are you looking forward to it? Why or why not?
• Did the media tour sway your decision, and do you think there's any way you'll change your mind before DT actually comes out?
  

The forums have always been a haven for negativity, nothing new or surprising there. What's most likely going to happen is the usual complainers around here will whine and complain, create their echo chamber, the game will launch and be massively popular, and they'll be left wondering how. Destiny 2 is a great case in point - if you think these forums are "uneasy" or "apathetic", they look like a paradise compared to the D2 ones leading up to their own new expansion that just released this week. D2 even significantly underperformed in terms of pre-sales. What ended up happening? The new xpac still saw the expected population explosion (minus the servers biting the dust day one) and it's generally getting great reviews. DT in comparison has the most pre-sales already of any FFXIV xpac. Huge numbers of players will be satisfied, while the malcontents continue naysaying everything here. To answer your questions:

1.) Started in ARR, played on and off until about 2021, steadily since then.
2.) Absolutely. I'm actually glad to have some time off in the first couple weeks the xpac will be live for the first time with FFXIV. I've thoroughly enjoyed my FFXIV experience so far throughout the years, I'm still having a ton of fun in the game, and I'm expecting to continue doing so in DT.
3.) Honestly, I couldn't care less about "media tours" and the like. Didn't pay any attention to it.

[sindriiisgaming]

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[*] When did you start playing?

5.2

[*] Will you play DT at launch, and are you looking forward to it? Why or why not?

Yes. Yes. how do i answer in solution 9 music

[*] Did the media tour sway your decision, and do you think there's any way you'll change your mind before DT actually comes out?[LIST]

it helped. if the game isnt harder im prolly gona be done with PVE

[sindriiisgaming]

I'm very disappointed with the lack of LGBT characters for Dawntrail.

you could be the next one. Be the solution!

[Dyvid]

When did you start playing?

September 30, 2010 (1.0)

Will you play DT at launch, and are you looking forward to it? Why or why not?

Yes, mainly because I hope Pictomancer is a job I can enjoy again.

Did the media tour sway your decision, and do you think there's any way you'll change your mind before DT actually comes out?

No but I can't make an opinion until I actually sit down and play it. However, I do understand where members of the community are coming from. I have the benefit of watching the game change time and time again. People feel like SE isn't listening to their needs, which is true to degrees. When your job or role is up end without so much as a peep from the dev team, people have a right to upset, I was. In fact the summoner change is the main reason I rarely played Endwalker, it stop being fun. I don't want to close the book on FFXIV but aspects of the game do need to change to keep me going forward. Not sure an overhaul on graphics was the right first step going forward. Would have preferred they focused on Battle Design first.

[caffe_macchiato]

When did you start playing

Heavensward

Will you play DT at launch, and are you looking forward to it? Why or why not?

Yes and no. It's 2024, and we all have to buy in to some slop because that's what our leaders told us. We can choose the flavor of slop, but we have to consoom slop nonetheless. It's just a 2024 thing and people LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it. I'm already familiar with this brand of slop so there's no point trying anything else.

Did the media tour sway your decision, and do you think there's any way you'll change your mind before DT actually comes out?

Yeah, it shows everyone that it'll be a cutscene-and-AFK kind of game, and people will LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it. As the great sage four posts above said, your opinions literally do not matter. Those of a higher social standing will designate Dawntrail as yet another 9/10 sloppa approved for mass consumption, a million people will buy the slop, they will consume and then put it down to buy something else. And we are supposed to be okay with this because that's your role in life and you need to comply. The world isn't a democracy. Gone are "hobby games" like WoW and older MMOs that were passion projects rather than slot machines. You will have nothing and you will be happy.

[kinslayer-]

1) I tried the free trial way back when MNK had greased lightning but don't remember the Expac. Started playing for real in Shadowbringers, probably 5.3 or later.

2) Yes, mostly because i play with my Fc guildies and it's a good time. I'm looking foward not for the story especailly if they double down the Endwalker aproach with the scion or themes, but for the Field Operation content, i enjoyed Eureka, Bozja and Zadnor so i hope they don't disappoint.

3) I was indifferent about the media tour but i can see why some people were disapointed by the class changes (or lack of thereof).

[Turtledeluxe]

I'm an Endwalker baby and I can still see the game for the shallow husk that it is. Unfortunately I will not be playing 7.0 day one because I will not pre-order it. I will not pre order it because that could be interpreted as excitement and to be honest, I am not excited specifically based on the media tour and seeing combat unchanged.

Also the opinion that forums are havens for negativity seems like shaky logic. Forums, without any data, should be assumed to represent similar opinions to those if you generally polled an audience. There's nothing special about users who use forums and those who don't. There's no official data that you're of a certain pre disposition or IQ level or something if you use the forums. Forums are probably an assortment of a few thousand players that would be the same if you took a few thousand Randoms from Aether sever.

[mallleable]

1) Start of Shadowbringers.

2) Yup! Can't wait for the new adventures with the story, and multiplayer gameplay like Shade's, Cosmic, and Arcadion.

3) Yeah, a lot of the changes look fine, but maybe a bit too safe, and samey.

[rxantos]

Love the new lighting engine. As well as the female Hotgals.

Hate the homogenization and the gutting of DRK and AST. The developers seem to hate them both. DRK has something cool? Either give it to the other tanks or remove it. And lets turn AST into discount WHM.

Really can't say anything of the story, as I do not want to spoil myself. Will take it slow this time and watch no spoilers. Can't say if it the story will be good or bad. But if Square want's FF14 to survive, it must be good. As there is no longer any investment in the new story.

[kinslayer-]

Don't worry about that comment about the "muh negativity muh echo chamber muh vocal minority muh FFXIV undiscuted popularity " that guy always with the same words no matter the topic or context, he's adamant to push that weird narrative.

P.D. Meant to tag Turtledeluxe but oh well lol