Dawntrail Is A Great Expansion

[Basteala]

Also I said it in another thread, but for positive vibes--I thought the way the Golden City was handled, built up, and revealed was brilliant. I may have a host of issues with other parts of the story, but I thought the MSQ nailed that.

[Havenchild]

DT is a solid expansion. MSQ is better than SB for sure but not by much. Battle content is so far better than SB imo (hopefully the raids keep it up)

Forums overall being forums, some criticisms are fair while others are wildly subjective and even remove context randomly for no reason but to hate on Wuk for the sake of. The forums seem to hate DT, but everyone I've talked to in-game and in Discords seem to enjoy it all including MSQ, generally rating at a 7-8/10.

[Astronis]

I think there was a lot to like. The side quests were mostly pretty good. The Mamool Ja were good. There were good themes in DT that just got overshadowed a bit. It set up a ton of plot hooks to use going forward. The music was *fantastic*. Graphics too. Fights are fun.

[Its_Kazzy_D]

My hot take is that I actually prefer DT's story to EW's and the former also got a lot more emotions out of me than the latter.

[Basteala]

My hot take is that I actually prefer DT's story to EW's and the former also got a lot more emotions out of me than the latter.

Honestly I can get that--certainly with Ultima Thule vs Living Memory. They both hurt, but Living Memory definitely hit me more in the feels.

[Gortys]

To depart from all the usual negative posts on the forums, I thought it was a great expansion and all the people I've seen talk about it in the game loved it as well!

It's nice that you like it. As for it not being the "holiday lots of people were dismissing it as."? The Devs told us it was a vacation. Saying the community somehow created this out of thin air is disingenuous.
This was not a "political campaign" either. It felt more like a ritual to become a ruler. I don't think that's a bad thing because we've already had a ton of political intrigue in this game.

As for the curve ball? We were going very fast through the first 2 zones. I thought "wow, we were barely there". Then I remember what happened in lvl 83 of EW and knew that the contest would be over within a few levels. It's a curve ball they used in the previous expansion so not hard to predict.
It does seem that most people complaining either dislike the first or second half exclusively. For me the second half and part of the first were what annoyed me.

To be honest, the negative threads are getting very repetitive. I do think we need some positive threads or threads where we just state what we hope to learn that we feel was glossed over (since that is what YoshiP said they would use for the next expansions).

[Jojoya]

Isn't it a bit soon to decide if this is a good expansion or not based on just the MSQ and 2 EX trials?

We don't have raids yet.

We don't have Cosmic Exploration yet.

We don't have the new exploratory zone yet.

We can't start the relic weapons yet.

We don't have the new Variant/Criterion dungeons yet.

We don't know if the trial series will go back to being a separate thing or will once again be baked into the MSQ.

We have no information about Expert crafting yet (I'm guessing it will be part of Cosmic Exploration?).

We don't have the treasure dungeon yet.

We don't have the Ultimate yet.

Definitely it's fair for players to say "so far I'm enjoying/disliking it" but it's really premature to say that it's a great/good/decent/mediocre/bad/terrible expansion. We haven't seen enough of the content yet to decide.

Someone should bookmark this then come back to it in 7.5 to see if feelings are still the same.

[EdwinChucklenuts]

Isn't it a bit soon to decide if this is a good expansion or not based on just the MSQ and 2 EX trials?

We don't have raids yet.

We don't have Cosmic Exploration yet.

We don't have the new exploratory zone yet.

We can't start the relic weapons yet.

We don't have the new Variant/Criterion dungeons yet.

We don't know if the trial series will go back to being a separate thing or will once again be baked into the MSQ.

We have no information about Expert crafting yet (I'm guessing it will be part of Cosmic Exploration?).

We don't have the treasure dungeon yet.

We don't have the Ultimate yet.

Definitely it's fair for players to say "so far I'm enjoying/disliking it" but it's really premature to say that it's a great/good/decent/mediocre/bad/terrible expansion. We haven't seen enough of the content yet to decide.

Someone should bookmark this then come back to it in 7.5 to see if feelings are still the same.

I hate to agree with a Lala but this is the only person talkin' sense.

[Voidmage]

To be honest, the negative threads are getting very repetitive. I do think we need some positive threads or threads where we just state what we hope to learn that we feel was glossed over (since that is what YoshiP said they would use for the next expansions).

It’s really just people wanting to be heard.
I also have the “fear” for a lack of a better word that they ignore the feedback and continue with sidelining my character or forcing a character in the spotlight each expansion like Wuk Lamat.
These are all people who care about the story, you know the most important thing of ff14 by many.
That’s not repetitive.

It’s fine to make threads that say what the people liked. I liked some stuff too like the lore implications.
It’s not fine however to belittle feedback (not directed at you) or even insulting other people with a snide remark all the time like “whiners”, “you just skipped cutscenes”, “you have low standards”.
Some things are really disgusting.

That goes for both sides but tbh I saw it most from people defending the expansion. Maybe that’s just opinionated awareness.

Maybe I’m too idealistic but if so then let it be like that.

[1313]

When i got to Alexandria dungeon and saw the opening scene I was stoked, but that all changed after the first boss for the remainder and I was sad. also agree that sci-fi ff9 is wtf. The sci-fi cyberpunk whhatever was never the thing for me, despite the fact that i play pso2ngs lol