ELI5 How we went from this....

[VeyaAkemi]

Y'alls are really crying about an established character that, regardless how you feel about her, is important to the on-going story, showing up in a group shot and in gameplay footage?

[Kohashi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5vqrKfADW4
6.2 buried memory trailer

and this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw
5.3 reflections in crystal trailer



to this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UMKggEkUI
wuk lamat once again 7.1 trailer

Post-EW was super meh, Island was a great idea but turned out super meh but at least the fights and music were awesome.
SHB was great, (except Nier for me, since I find that to be the most boring and annoying raid).
DT , the story was mid, and written to appeal to kids and a younger generation, but everything else was awesome. The raid tier is great, the dungeons are great and the music is 10/10.

[Frizze]

The worst patch(arguably) of each expansion has been the .1 patch. Compare this trailer to 2.1/3.1/etc. Unless you were really hyped for whatever the alliance raid was, it was always just kinda like this. By the time you get to .2 and especially .3 things start to get all hyped up in everything.

[Volgia]

I hope that one of the quests has you talk to Wuk Lamat, and she asks if you like her and if you answer no, she deletes your account.

[genuine_stranger]

I hope that one of the quests has you talk to Wuk Lamat, and she asks if you like her and if you answer no, she deletes your account.

Sure! Let's put in a massive filter and tank the player base.
Not gonna lie, I'm ready for the meltdown a simple choice would cause if they implemented this.

[XianRo]

I hope that one of the quests has you talk to Wuk Lamat, and she asks if you like her and if you answer no, she deletes your account.

Please Yoship!

You'll make people who don't act like the only important hrothgar npc the game will ever have (I am not looking forward to 8.0 going back to the Middys and Middys WITH DIFFERENT EARS of Seventh White Hair) killed their grandma so happy.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Hmm how come you didnt compare to 5.1 and 6.1 trailers? Is it because they're slower paced too? Also if you going to compare the only fair comparison would be 2.1.

[hynaku]

Wuk Lamat needs to be written out of the story.

[Aneshda]

I'm definitely not going to waste my time with Wuk Lamat. Her story is over, no matter what Yoshi P. tries to tell us all.
There's no going back from my impressions of this character, nothing SE changes or rewrites will change my opinion.
I'm paying for a great game with a good story, cool enemies and equally cool friends, for heroes and for the WoL to be at the center of the story.
Not for a game that suddenly no longer respects me and some mangy street cat takes my place in the story.
With a story that is so stupid and boring that you have to fear becoming stupid yourself.

[Gaddes]

I'm hyped for the alliance raid, so I really saw no problem whatsoever with this trailer; if anything, it was exciting. Of course Wuk is gonna be somewhere in this trailer, they can't just chop off this story cold turkey, they're going to have ramp down from it so they can transition to whatever the next plotline will be. Anyone expecting she would just instantly disappear is kidding themselves. I actually think the fact that Alexandrians are gonna have to come to terms with the concept of "death" suddenly might end up being pretty interesting narratively... maybe it'll cause a bunch of conflict. I definitely want them to address the need to get rid of the Everkeep soul system since that still being in place at the end of the base story felt really wrong.