How FFXIV state change from ShB to DT?

[Ririta]

How can story writer so perfectly in Shadowbringers to be as disappointment as we see in Dawntrail?

I was trying to compare each aspect each character each area each event each conflict..
it doesn't look like the same game!

How things can turn this bad?

It's easy when you have 6+ years of stories setting it up.
SHB wouldn't be good if ARR didn't present us the ascians and garleans (and yall love to complain about ARR)
SHB wouldn't be good if HW didn't start the multiple shard and the warrior of darkness plotline.
SHB wouldn't be good if SB didn't Varian didn't go to war in Ghimlyt Dark and state that he wants to destroy the world.

What did EW leave for DT? Nothing. It spent all of its patches telling a non-consequential (for now) void story. DT had to start everything up from scratch, something that not even ARR had to (1.0 had Bahamut bring a calamity and ARR starts there).

That DT turned out as good as it did after it had every disavantage is a miracle. DT is excellent, it not only tells us the story it set out to tell, but it also laid out a new story to explore. All that without trouncing everything that built FFXIV, like EW and SHB (to a lesser extent) did.

Look, I get it, dumping on Dawntrail's story is a popular thing to do right now and an easy way to fish for replies. You don't need to keep churning out new threads ad nauseum.

Yeah, make a main thread like we did for EW. I'm not even checking this board daily anymore because it's the same thing on loop, it's boring.