Goodbye Endwalker

[Connor]

Goodbye Endwalker.

I knew the majority your story before it happened. Either I have mysterious psychic abilities, or you were very predictable. But not in an unenjoyable way. Which I guess was the point.

Music was ofc 10/10 pretty much always is someone give Soken and the music team like 100 medals someone please.

Gameplay? Uhh…thanks for the story, Endwalker.

[Graveyardprincess]

i WANT MY DADDY senpai zenos to come back and bring back emo meteion as a friend

[GangWeed]

I don't think she was necessarily the root of the problem. Someone involved in the process wanted to wrap up too many things in one X.0 MSQ, which could have been Yoshida, Ishikawa, or Oda, and the result would have been a mess regardless of who was writing it. She also could've just been thrown out of her depth for marketing purposes given how popular Emet was, because she did fine writing smaller storylines or single characters.

She’s the Emil Pagliarulo of FFXIV. Good at job quests and character writing but hilariously out of her depth when it comes to MSQ writing. Graha not dying during 5.3 and the entire Elpis quest line + Ultima Thule are fan fiction tier writing

[Reimmi]

Good riddance, the 6.0 story was incredible but everything after was so mediocre
here's to something new and interesting i hope

[Daralii]

She’s the Emil Pagliarulo of FFXIV. Good at job quests and character writing but hilariously out of her depth when it comes to MSQ writing. Graha not dying during 5.3 and the entire Elpis quest line + Ultima Thule are fan fiction tier writing

I don't disagree, especially with how flanderized G'raha immediately became. Meteion's "btw I'm accelerating the heat death of the universe " dialogue was so stupid it made me laugh.

[Jeeqbit]

Goodbye Endwalker. Thank you for the fun raid tiers, memorable extremes, the memorable MSQ with extra RPG features and the side stories like the tribal and tataru quests, great MSQ dungeons and armors with interesting effects like fire and crystals. For all the problems with the battle system, there were all these good things.

[Tsumdere]

Goodbye Endwalker!

Despite the downs (post-MSQ patches + Island), I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed 6.0 story, met some great friends, raided a ton, spent too much time farming glams because I swear everything was made for me specifically. And the extended patches actually felt fantastic and I was finally able to catch up on some old stuff in the game.

[Cach]

Thanks Endwalker for uuuh..

PvP reward tracks and uuh.. playing Sage is nice I guess.

Not gonna go on another hate rant, but man, this one was rough. At least the basic stuff that every expansion gets are solid enough to keep me interested.

[genuine_stranger]

Goodbye Endwalker, thank you for finally ending.

My worst experience so far, I've been on break since 6.3, and I'm still not entirely sure If I want to continue playing. Since I'm not into raiding, Endwalker really let me down with its lack of mid / casual content.

[Striker44]

As the final week has approached, i wanted to create a little bit of a goodbye thread in this otherwise run over forum by negativity.


Thank you, for the expansion. Especially the mainstory 6.0. Goodbye Endwalker!

Thank you for making this, and apologies on behalf of the negative echo chamber that can't stand people enjoying the game.

I had a blast with EW. Loved the story, loved the music, leveled to max the most classes I ever have, got into classes I had shelved completely before (mainly NIN and AST). Fun times with hunt trains, actually got into crafting. First xpac I was actually already max level in at least one class at the start instead of playing catch-up, and still have some things I won't get to before the xpac is over in a short moment. Looking forward to the next chapter with DT!

I don't feel people are very hyped for dawntrail after the suckage of ew. It feels to me dawntrail is the last leg for 14 and I'm not sure the devs understand that.

Be wary of echo chambers (i.e. most of this forum). They can end up giving someone a very false impression of what's really going on. Heck, the hunt trains running this morning were as packed as ever with a lot of "hype" running through the chat, same with the FC. Take a spin around places like YT and for every person here who comments or "likes" a comment naysaying the game, you'll find dozens of people doing the exact opposite. The playerbase data says the same - even once the "WoW exodus" ran its course, EW still had the highest player population at every single point along the way compared with ShB (just as ShB did compared to SB, and SB compared to HW, etc.). The game is actually still on an upward trajectory and will be going for a long time to come.

I think Destiny 2's recent xpac is a good lesson. Check out those forums - the toxicity there leading up to their recently released xpac made this place look like a paradise in comparison. Then the xpac launched...and it's been enormously popular, widely praised...all while the same group continues their negativity on the forum. I expect the same will happen here - a massively popular release of DT, with the forum community that's buried its head in its own echo chamber wondering how it could be.