Quote Originally Posted by Akari-skts View Post
Are here any people that actually enjoy the game? And if not.. where are they? I've heard player counts are looking good, and I tbh can imagine why.
I'll give you an answer but it requires some preamble so lemme yap for a second:

I was so far removed from the FF14 community except interactions solely in-game that I never really came to the forum except once or twice. And I don't touch the Reddit sub either. I frankly never cared, and why should I? Most people don't. But the writing in DT was so monumentally horrid that I came here to verify whether or not I had gone mentally insane or not. I've never hated the story in FF14 - I've lauded it as one of the best in the gaming industry. And that opinion has 180'd hardcore this expac. I don't care about Wuk Lamat's voice, or the fact that she's basically Jar Jar Binks, or any of that stuff. I care about writing quality. I just cannot get over how poorly written, executed, lacking of substance, and low-brow the entire DT story was. It was like the devs were intentionally trying to insult the player the entire time; I can't believe no one along the way stopped for a second to say "are we sure this is what we're doing for the story? Do we have the intended audience for this?"

Boring stories can be well written - they're called the classics, and honestly they're pretty good and I recommend them, if anything to assist with developing better reading comprehension so you can enjoy the things you read in life more. I have enough tenacity to read through a slog of a story, but I don't have patience for plot holes, over-use of lame tropes, excessive dues ex machina, or bad pacing. And so I'm here, shouting at a cloud, making no difference lol. Oh well.

The content - that is, 99.9% of our playtime in any given expac, is superb. The dungeon bosses, raids, and trials are some of the best they've put out, and the other planned content seems like it'll be very fun. That's why I'm even still here in the first place. Because the game is fun to play.

That's why we're upset and posting everywhere on this board. Not because we have a penchant for destroying the things we're purported to love, rather because we're captives here. We HAVE to experience the story in order to play the content for the rest of the expansion lifecycle. So the expectation is that it'll be GOOD story that a vast majority of players enjoy - much like it has been for most of the time FF14 has been out. Because the story has almost always been good, and because we spend a lot of money to play this game. We deserve a much higher quality product than what we got.