Live letters have lost their magic - Zepla

[ReynTime]

She may have terrible taste in what qualifies as good story by hating on Werlyt and praising Endwalker, also belittling everyone who was expressing disappointment with Endwalker's MSQ back then, but she's right about the live letters.

Even during the times I wasn't subbed I'd have the live letters running in the background. But over time they started feeling less and less of an earnest Dev to Players communication venue. Fan Fests haven't been as interesting to watch streams for either, unless you still care for The Primals segments which are the only parts that matters now.

[Majatok]

There are other content creators that gave out their opinions on Dawntrail, why does everyone talk about Zepla only? Makes me think she is being targeted, which is weird because the people who have an issue with her seem to be the same people that value positivity and respectful interaction.

[CalvinDescoles]

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HealerGuy has something personnal about her i think reading his history.

[Sheriyana]

There are other content creators that gave out their opinions on Dawntrail, why does everyone talk about Zepla only? Makes me think she is being targeted, which is weird because the people who have an issue with her seem to be the same people that value positivity and respectful interaction.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was former fans of her who are throwing tantrums that they lost their paladin of blind white knighting for XIV and the dev team when Zepla started to see the issues with the game. Now they are seething when Zepla is making mostly critical content instead.

[Daralii]

There are other content creators that gave out their opinions on Dawntrail, why does everyone talk about Zepla only? Makes me think she is being targeted, which is weird because the people who have an issue with her seem to be the same people that value positivity and respectful interaction.

She came from WoW and has been complaining about more and more aspects of the game for a while, which is really all it takes. She was everyone's favorite for a bit in 2022 when she had to flee Ukraine because of the war.

[Kozh]

She may have terrible taste in what qualifies as good story by hating on Werlyt and praising Endwalker, also belittling everyone who was expressing disappointment with Endwalker's MSQ back then, but she's right about the live letters.

Even during the times I wasn't subbed I'd have the live letters running in the background. But over time they started feeling less and less of an earnest Dev to Players communication venue. Fan Fests haven't been as interesting to watch streams for either, unless you still care for The Primals segments which are the only parts that matters now.

Ironically, I was actually a bit hyped watching 7.2 LL when they reveal field operation and phantom jobs. Hence why I resub now to prepare for it, as I've been taking a break since a month after 7.0.
But as I login into the game and play, everything feels underwhelming and more of a chore rather than fun. It's genuinely sad.

[Veritas-Ancora]

But as I login into the game and play, everything feels underwhelming and more of a chore rather than fun. It's genuinely sad.

I felt the same yesterday. Tuesday is supposed to be the all-exciting Reset Day. I played Jeuno, I did the Moogle event, and I went to bed.

The time tables for Gold Saucer are too far spread thin for me. I wish I could spend a "day" having fun but you're waiting a half hour between each event.

[User202503201232]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was former fans of her who are throwing tantrums that they lost their paladin of blind white knighting for XIV and the dev team when Zepla started to see the issues with the game. Now they are seething when Zepla is making mostly critical content instead.

This is exactly what it is. They use words like "betrayal" constantly.

[User202503201232]

The argument that DT is bad bc "woke" is genuinely ridiculous. The story itself is the most milque-toast and vague "peace is good" kind of story that has been told for decades in all types of medias.

If anything actual, serious "woke" people like the postcolonial anthropologists will get an aneurysm going through the story.

I find it so hilarious that so many of the "woke" fans of FF14 defend DT to death and called it peak writing and more importantly scold others for lacking media literacy. These people unironically believe that most folks hated DT because it embraced multiculturalism and featured minorities.

The people who actually lack media literacy are exactly these white knights. They've got to read Edward Said's Orientalism or something like that. Because THE ENTIRE MSQ IS FULL OF TROPES. Every single tribe WAS A TROPE. The Pelupelu are nothing more than TRADE TRADE BARTER BARTER. The Hanu are so helpless they can't figure out their crops and they have to be TAUGHT their cultural traditions by a "Westerner" from Eorzea. Half the culture in Tuliyollal was just TACOS FOOD TACOS.

It reveals so, so much that certain segments of the playerbase virtue signal about being so woke and so aware and so embracing of multiculturalism and yet loved Dawntrail. And it's because they probably see IRL cultures and peoples as nothing more than their tropes. They are the essentializer, the people who Orientalize foreign cultures. Seriously, I don't know how anyone who's interested in "wokeness" or serious cultural representation would unironically love that LatAm representation in this game is just TACOS! TACOS!

These aren't real NPCs. They exist only to give WoL and co a sightseeing tour among the oh so exotic cultures of the New World.

[Daralii]

If anything actual, serious "woke" people like the postcolonial anthropologists will get an aneurysm going through the story.

I find it so hilarious that so many of the "woke" fans of FF14 defend DT to death and called it peak writing and more importantly scold others for lacking media literacy. These people unironically believe that most folks hated DT because it embraced multiculturalism and featured minorities.

The people who actually lack media literacy are exactly these white knights. They've got to read Edward Said's Orientalism or something like that. Because THE ENTIRE MSQ IS FULL OF TROPES. Every single tribe WAS A TROPE. The Pelupelu are nothing more than TRADE TRADE BARTER BARTER. The Hanu are so helpless they can't figure out their crops and they have to be TAUGHT their cultural traditions by a "Westerner" from Eorzea. Half the culture in Tuliyollal was just TACOS FOOD TACOS.

It reveals so, so much that certain segments of the playerbase virtue signal about being so woke and so aware and so embracing of multiculturalism and yet loved Dawntrail. And it's because they probably see IRL cultures and peoples as nothing more than their tropes. They are the essentializer, the people who Orientalize foreign cultures. Seriously, I don't know how anyone who's interested in "wokeness" or serious cultural representation would unironically love that LatAm representation in this game is just TACOS! TACOS!

These aren't real NPCs. They exist only to give WoL and co a sightseeing tour among the oh so exotic cultures of the New World.

Don't forget that SE paid cultural """"experts""""(that have likely never been outside LA) to create this """"authentic"""" experience.