Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Cotytto]

This writing is so bad I don't even care to finish pushing the MSQ further and I'm legit going to just wait for the 'tales of adventure' option to come out so I can buy my way out of this garbage story. I'm starting to think that was their intention all along... to get more people to buy-a-nope and get away from this less than mediore storyline.

This is my plan. I can kill a couple of years with 2.0-6.0 content and alts. Hell I fiddled around for a year after finishing 6.0 before I forced myself to finish it due to how much I didn't like the post patches. And I didn't have anywhere near as visceral reaction to them as I have this abomination of an MSQ. There is literally nothing at "endgame" that I am so desperate for I will suffer the awful MSQ and Wok LeRug any further.

It is not all in their favor monetarily though. This was my last preorder. They lost my trust by shoving this utter insult of a fanfic story out the door. I'm going to hold off on buying it until 8.0 is safely out for me to see if they actually learned any lessons from this travesty. Going to see if the writing is any better or if they decide to double down (like the vast majority of companies do when they screw up royally).

I never thought I'd see the day that a FF game known for it's story would release anything this amateurishly awful centered around a character seemingly created to be hated.

[Shibi]

I hope, if Yoshi ever looks at the reactions, he thinks "Such Detestation, this was not my intention"

And we see Hiroi-kun booted and the responsibility given to some decent A-Grade writers.

[HighlanderClone]

I hope, if Yoshi ever looks at the reactions, he thinks "Such Detestation, this was not my intention"

And we see Hiroi-kun booted and the responsibility given to some decent A-Grade writers.

Blaming the writers is not going to do anything when the source of the problem is Yoshi P intentionally stretching the team thin and putting FF14 on life support maintained by junior devs. Hiroi got put in a position he is clearly not cut out for, by Yoshi P, because they need their senior devs working on the third project.

[Raven2014]

I hope, if Yoshi ever looks at the reactions,

All he needs to do is go through the MSQ and see it for himself.

Preferably using the English dub.

[Astronis]

For an expansion that was supposed to be crafted and vetted for cultural sensitivity it's an almost hilariously continuous roll of white saviour + stupid natives + Shah of Iran / CIA operations. I also notice that the underlying motif of "cultural understanding" is food, which is such an oblivious western approach to cultural appreciation "oh those funny brown people, they make a mean curry/taco". In the past of FF14 it would have been something weighty like religion or government or a system of oppression etc etc but food is "Disney-safe".

Ironically, a tremendously Western way to look at a story written by an entirely Japanese team.

[Syln]

I for one am glad they represented my American heritage well with violent regime change and a bananatrope republic.

All those researches weren't in vain !!! :3

[gumas]

welp thats it, i cant take it anymore, i dont have a single ounch of motivation to continue the story right now, this is the first time ever in my FF14 and usually the story is the highest reason why i play ff14 lol

until they introduce a new stuff that can bait me to come back, i think i just unsub for now and.... i cant believe i say this but i might finally try wow for first time lol

iam thinking FF11 but while i keep hearing the story is good and is now soloable, i dont think i can handle the cumbersome of the old style everquest era mmo

[Zaniel]

Ironically, a tremendously Western way to look at a story written by an entirely Japanese team.

The outcome is still the outcome, I don't pretend to have insider knowledge on Hiroi's thought processes. They DID hire a cultural sensitivity consulting group (I have no idea who, presumably a Western one).

[gumas]

ok, i know i said iam going to try wow but thankfully my friend told me to try the free trial version of it which you can play up until level 20

and hoo boy, now iam not sure i want to play it or not lol, the core gameplay is fine, but the story telling is.... iam so confused, whats the main story here? all i do so far is just doing generic quest, there is no "important" quest at all, or maybe that only start after level 20? because so far i didnt feel the story at all

and they just pop up everywhere, 1 time iam still clearing this quest in x area, got quest told me to go to different region and full with bunch of quest, then suddenly i got urgent quest told me to go to the capital (stormwind) and practically got warp into... different realm? and i got bunch of another different set of quest that has nothing to do with what i do before

iam so confused lol

[Reinha]

World of Warcraft doesn't have a main story quest, at least when I played it. You had to do a bunch of quests in each area to find out about the lore. Expansions had some kind of major quests and plot points though.