FFXIV has lost it's heart

[Incantus]

Wow.

Well that was my first and last visit to these forums. Nice to see that MMO forums truly are the same cesspools everywhere you go. Seriously speaking, Dawntrail was a breath of fresh air after what felt like neverending doom and gloom for so many expansions. And even then Dawntrail wasn't exactly sunshine and happiness, it was an expansion about Acceptance in various forms. Acceptance of birth, death, circumstance, limitations, ideals etc....

I really think people are in a wierd echo chamber about Dawntrail and failing to see it for what it is. The only thing I felt was a bit to forced was Wuk Lamats sudden entry in at the end. But even so the 7.1 story right away opened up multiple new threads, and there is a ton of unsolved mystery in Dawntrail if you actually do the optional dungeons and side quests...

Dawntrail felt like a modern take on ARR, except now we are the mentor figure. And it was honestly refreshing to me. And I loved Wuk Lamat, I didn't expect her to be some heroic figure, I expected an insecure young regent who is struggling to come to terms with her own position. And that is what I got, and she grew during the expansion.

The sheer negativity on these forums makes me feel a lot of you are really bored of FFXIV and what it actually is, and are playing out of attachment. And that is fine, but it also seems to lead you to dislike new content because it doesn't make you feel like the old content felt.

That is called Nostalgia and Rose tinted glasses, nothing can bring back that, but you can experience new content and enjoy it. If you try to stop expecting things, and just enjoy them for what they are instead.

I saw tons of hate about the endwalker post patch story as well, and that is probably my favorite storyline in all of FFXIV tbh. So yeah, I can tell the forums are a very negative echo chamber. So this will be my first and final post I suppose. I only came here to suggest that Chaos mode dungeons would be a nice thing, since so many leveling dungeons with cool mechanics never get to truly shine.

Oh well, enjoy your depressive posting I guess. It sure as hell made me feel sorry for you.

[Lunaxia]

I saw tons of hate about the endwalker post patch story as well, and that is probably my favorite storyline in all of FFXIV tbh. So yeah, I can tell the forums are a very negative echo chamber.

Or you have awful taste. That's, you know, another conclusion you could make.

[AlucaDragonheart]

Wow.

Well that was my first and last visit to these forums. Nice to see that MMO forums truly are the same cesspools everywhere you go. Seriously speaking, Dawntrail was a breath of fresh air after what felt like neverending doom and gloom for so many expansions. And even then Dawntrail wasn't exactly sunshine and happiness, it was an expansion about Acceptance in various forms. Acceptance of birth, death, circumstance, limitations, ideals etc....

I really think people are in a wierd echo chamber about Dawntrail and failing to see it for what it is. The only thing I felt was a bit to forced was Wuk Lamats sudden entry in at the end. But even so the 7.1 story right away opened up multiple new threads, and there is a ton of unsolved mystery in Dawntrail if you actually do the optional dungeons and side quests...

Dawntrail felt like a modern take on ARR, except now we are the mentor figure. And it was honestly refreshing to me. And I loved Wuk Lamat, I didn't expect her to be some heroic figure, I expected an insecure young regent who is struggling to come to terms with her own position. And that is what I got, and she grew during the expansion.

The sheer negativity on these forums makes me feel a lot of you are really bored of FFXIV and what it actually is, and are playing out of attachment. And that is fine, but it also seems to lead you to dislike new content because it doesn't make you feel like the old content felt.

That is called Nostalgia and Rose tinted glasses, nothing can bring back that, but you can experience new content and enjoy it. If you try to stop expecting things, and just enjoy them for what they are instead.

I saw tons of hate about the endwalker post patch story as well, and that is probably my favorite storyline in all of FFXIV tbh. So yeah, I can tell the forums are a very negative echo chamber. So this will be my first and final post I suppose. I only came here to suggest that Chaos mode dungeons would be a nice thing, since so many leveling dungeons with cool mechanics never get to truly shine.

Oh well, enjoy your depressive posting I guess. It sure as hell made me feel sorry for you.

Hey you can have your own echo chamber too, it's r/ffxiv. You're welcome!

[Lunaxia]

Hey you can have your own echo chamber too, it's r/ffxiv. You're welcome!

Ironically, even they didn't like 6.X all that much. When the patches finished, most of the comments were about either how it wound up essentially being a near FFIV rip, how it spent months of build-up without feeling like there was any real pay-off, issues with Zero's character seeming underdeveloped and/ or the writing feeling underwhelming.

Some people weren't bothered one way or the other and just took it for what it was, of course, and to each their own, but to jump in and call one of the most universally criticised and unpopular arcs of the game your favourite part of the whole of FFXIV and decide any opinions to the contrary signals "a negative echo chamber" is certainly a choice.