Can we boycott MSQ cutscenes till SE get rid of Wuk Lamat?

[Talael]

Naoki Yoshida thinks he can make us like his poster character. In his own words "We will see how great she is". Err.. no, u had a whole expansion story and she is just garbage. I say we boycott all the cutscenes to show Yoshida we dont want to give her second chances, we are done with Wuk Lamat. Please.

[Striker44]

You're welcome to? Nobody's stopping you? Me - I'll enjoy them like I've enjoyed Wuk Lamat as a character throughout DT so far.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I'd appreciate a Wuk filter that blurs her out and muffles any voice acting when she appears.

[Andanie]

This post is why we really need to teach critical thinking in schools.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This post is why we really need to teach critical thinking in schools.

I agree. We should expect more out of a plot and characterization from products that sell story as one of the main features.

[BabyYoda]

in the end lyse wasn't bad after all

[ZephyrMenodora]

in the end lyse wasn't bad after all

I never had a problem with Lyse. Always liked her and didn't understand all the hate.

[AnimaAnimus]

I'm not even doing msq until I have to so something will unlock that is not an expert roulette dungeon. And when I am forced to go through it, you can bet your sweet bippy that I am going to skip the rest of DT in its entirety unless I start reading reviews that they did a major turn around in the quality of the writing, which sadly at this point isn't very likely.

8.0 will 100% be the deciding factor for me tho on whether or not I should keep going with this game. I am already spending my time in other games more than here and if the writing quality doesn't change or we just keep going with modernity and sci-fi, losing the few remaining fantasy elements left, I think my time in Eorzea will finally be at its end. I stuck by them through 1.0, but unlike those dark times, I really don't believe they care enough to actually take the time and money to try and fix what they broke. Again.

[CVXIV]

she'll likely be phased out as the patches progress leading to the next expansion but I hope she becomes a scion and sticks around because of how funny it would be

and I don't even care much about her as a character

[Evermomo]

The answer is no. The patches are definitely already written at this point. Besides that, Wuk Lamat isn't the problem with Dawntrail, it was the Scions.

If she's surrounded by flattened characters, but still has to be present in every conversation, she could be the best character in the world and it wouldn't matter. While DT's new characters are genuinely interesting and vibrant, and I think she had good chemistry with them, Wuk Lamat has to stop to have a conversation with either the wol (who rarely speaks back) or the twins (who felt like cardboard cutouts the whole time) in nearly every quest. Wuk Lamat is a motivated character, but a lot of the characters that we expect better from around her were not, which hurt a lot of the scenes she was in. That made much of the dialogue repetitive and pointless. But making her a scapegoat is a reflex, and imo an unfair one. Taking Wuk Lamat out doesn't make DT a better story, because most of the things she had to interact with were uninteresting.

The writers were awkward and squeamish about including the Twins, Urianger, and to an extent even Krile into DT's story. Which is a shame, because they all had ways they could relate to each other-- the twins have their connection to Urianger that could have been compared to Wuk Lamat's connection to her siblings. Krile did get to share her thoughts on Galuf, in regards to being adopted-- but not even the fact that he died... I thought Thancred was well-implemented, because his content felt both specific to him as a character and progressive for his character. G'raha's unexpected reflection on the moral complexity of his actions as the exarch was a welcome surprise. But it was thin on the ground.

The point is, Yoshida is correct to not scapegoat his staff and story assets that they have invested time and money in. Instead it sounds like they're going to respond to feedback about the half-hearted scions and remain committed to their ideas. I feel like they have correctly identified the problem, but time will tell if they can win over players whose attention they lost. I'm not suggesting there's no problems with DTs story, but this constant whining about Wuk Lamat is just dumb and starting to get annoying.