Yoshi-P tells PC Gamer that he is "not shocked" by mixed DT reception

[BigBoom550]

id like to weigh in with my 2¢ here.

I don't think the issue was the low stakes. Rather, it's that we were given no reason to care about the stakes. We had no indication of Zarool Ja getting star destroyers from Wish edition Emet. We did know he wasn't getting the throne. Gulool said as much.

Our investment died right there, and was beaten further into the dust with the trials largely not actually testing leadership capacity but serving as a color by numbers tour... for Wuk. A tour for us is fine, but she wasn't being tested as a leader.

So rather than a vacation, we're chaparoning a five year old on a leash on their road trip.

It made it all very, very hollow.

[tsuchii]

I'm glad that they don't kneel.
I hate it when developers fall into pressure and mess up a material's integrity.

[WetShoelace]

It's no wonder Square Enix keeps Naoki Yoshida around, he's just as disconnected with the player base and the game as every executive on there.

It was never about Wuk Lamat as a character, there can be annoying and poorly written characters in a story and the story can still be good. What's important is how the story is carried forward, and this time it's Wuk Lamat's burden. It's definitely not her lack of confidence in asking the Warrior of Light to meet them somewhere to talk about how much she loves peace.

But this story isn't good, things that happen don't make sense because the writing doesn't make sense. It's not really about the cultures, which are just reskins of old beast tribes, but about how Wuk Lamat interacts with these cultures. I don't even want to talk about the solution nine plotline, it is cheap and every plot beat is insulting. You should feel ashamed of it.

The MSQ structure is the same it's always been, if they had simply allowed people to choose where to go at first people would have felt a lot different about the expansion: They made the choice to go to the boring place, even if all of those places were boring in the end.

As it turns out, the decade old structure of the game has gotten really old(even for Shadowbringers players, who have been playing for half a decade now) and people are no longer standing for it. The mediocre pacing of the MSQ isn't something Square Enix should be learning about right now, it's at the very least something they should have improved upon after a decade of the game being developed.

I would give more credit to the content but Final Fantasy XIV doesn't feature RPG mechanics that allow people to develop their characters, so I have no reason to play this new content beyond beating the story. Frankly, I don't see how this is the best content we've ever had considering dungeons are still hallways we can't get lost in or do anything interesting in. I never liked the combat in this game enough to participate in raids, though I tried my hand at them back in Stormblood, I didn't go far once I realized the raids were a much different experience than the rest of the game.

This has been the worst implementation of jobs and the job system in any Final Fantasy I have played, let alone classes in a MMORPG. Yes, you may be able to switch Jobs, but you will never be asked to switch jobs. It is a tragedy, and much like FFXVI, a missed opportunity to do something great while pretending you're catering to someone who doesn't play Final Fantasy for the reasons Square Enix is thinking of.

I am beginning to feel nothing but apathy for this game, my only hope is that a director willing to move the game forward rather than shrink it with every waking update comes and saves the game from this terrible stagnation.

[Eyrilona]

That Train was the real hero of DT

Mentor arc where when we think the train is dead from being blown up, in actuality Truck-kun guides our train through an isekai story of being rebuilt across different shards to become FFVIII Guardian Force, Doomtrain.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Enjoy !!

Beautiful!

[lolnotacat]

Mentor arc where when we think the train is dead from being blown up, in actuality Truck-kun guides our train through an isekai story of being rebuilt across different shards to become FFVIII Guardian Force, Doomtrain.

Already more invested in this story than Dawntrail.

[Raim]

If a lot of people unsub and reviews continue to drop the shareholders will take notice and 'persuade' him to make changes to the MSQ. The content itself is nice though.

[Higashikata]

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the players who are wrong."
- YoshiPR

[Turtledeluxe]

I think confident is a translation issue. He's clearly talking about her being naive and I think he what he means is she should have been more knowledgeable about her own homeland, which is true.

[Striker44]

If a lot of people unsub and reviews continue to drop the shareholders will take notice and 'persuade' him to make changes to the MSQ. The content itself is nice though.

Or everyone will realize that in comparison to the size of the playerbase, those whining about Wuk Lumat are an insignificant speck because they unsubbed, it didn't make a dent, and all the people loving the Arcadion and patch content are where most people really are...