I don't know who is writing for Dawntrail. But there's one thing every rpg player knows to be true, including Dungeons and Dragons players. And that is: When the DM starts pushing a DM-NPC into the main character role, it 99% of the time, ruins the fun the players are having. This whole Wuk Lamat character, I view as a DM-NPC. And a poorly written one at that.
7.0, you got a ton of feedback. The majority of your players hate the character. And I am talking about the legitimate ones, not the ones that are biggoted who hate the char because of who the voice actress is. And for 7.1, Yoshi P, you did an interview where you said you did not want to give Wuk Lamat the Lyse treatment. To put into context, just how bad we, the community hate that character, I'd rather have Lyse be in the scenes instead of Wuk Lamat at this point. At least Lyse was a much more like-able character.
So, that being said, as long as you keep making this DM-NPC the main character and running our adventure instead of being a good leader, and staying home to govern and simply hire us to go do the actual adventure stuff, you know like how Kan-E-Senna, Merlwyb, Raubahn, etc used to do. As long as you keep making her the main character, I vow to skip every cutscene, and fast click through every dialogue and not see the "hard work" you all put into this expansions story. This is the first time I'm ever feeling like I'm having to do this.
It sucks. Up until now, I never did this, except on alts because I sat through every dialogue, every cutscene of FFXIV up until now. I just can't get through this MSQ otherwise. DM-NPC's suck the fun out of the story. If you want to tell the story of a DM-NPC, then make a single player game with that character. But in an MMO Setting, you are the DM, we the players are the players, the adventurers. We want a fun story to follow through. To experience stuff as a hero that has saved the planet more times than can be counted. We were promised to be fresh adventurers going to this new land, and adventure. Instead you've turned us into nothing more than hired baby sitters.
So here is hoping 7.2, you course correct. Because otherwise your "story" will be unviewed and unread by myself.
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7.0, you got a ton of feedback. The majority of your players hate the character. And I am talking about the legitimate ones, not the ones that are biggoted who hate the char because of who the voice actress is. And for 7.1, Yoshi P, you did an interview where you said you did not want to give Wuk Lamat the Lyse treatment. To put into context, just how bad we, the community hate that character, I'd rather have Lyse be in the scenes instead of Wuk Lamat at this point. At least Lyse was a much more like-able character.
So, that being said, as long as you keep making this DM-NPC the main character and running our adventure instead of being a good leader, and staying home to govern and simply hire us to go do the actual adventure stuff, you know like how Kan-E-Senna, Merlwyb, Raubahn, etc used to do. As long as you keep making her the main character, I vow to skip every cutscene, and fast click through every dialogue and not see the "hard work" you all put into this expansions story. This is the first time I'm ever feeling like I'm having to do this.
It sucks. Up until now, I never did this, except on alts because I sat through every dialogue, every cutscene of FFXIV up until now. I just can't get through this MSQ otherwise. DM-NPC's suck the fun out of the story. If you want to tell the story of a DM-NPC, then make a single player game with that character. But in an MMO Setting, you are the DM, we the players are the players, the adventurers. We want a fun story to follow through. To experience stuff as a hero that has saved the planet more times than can be counted. We were promised to be fresh adventurers going to this new land, and adventure. Instead you've turned us into nothing more than hired baby sitters.
So here is hoping 7.2, you course correct. Because otherwise your "story" will be unviewed and unread by myself.
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