Hey there!
I've been out of the loop for quite a few years, since I've stopped playing the game around 6.0, but now I came back and I'm extremely confused, because I'm having an absolute blast with this expansion, while I see people calling it the worst expansion everywhere.
From what I've seen, the only complaints I could find, were about the story. People complaining about Wuk Lamat, complaining about the pacing, and I can't find anything substantial besides this. I didn't find Wuk Lamat particularly interesting or good either, and perceive quite the same as Vivi from One Piece. An important story character for an arc, that I won't miss, once she's gone after said arc.
However, that can't be it. It doesn't make sense to me. Like, I understand, that the MSQ is a big selling point of the game, but at the end of the day 98% of the entire duration of an expansion you don't play the MSQ. You play the endgame. The side content. The fluff stuff. FFXIV is still an MMO, and even if the MSQ is a major selling point, content is what makes an MMO.
And regarding content, I've never seen a so content packed expansion in FFXIV. It's so oversaturated with content, that I don't even know when I'm gonna finish all of this. Even my best friend who quit after Stormblood, complaining about SE cutting content every expansion, reading the patch notes and complaining over and over that there's nothing worthwhile for him to come back, came back now and is saying "Now this MMO is good again."
Like we got and are getting: all the usual main stuff (msq, dungeons, raids/savage, alliance raids, trials & ex trials), savage alliance raid (new), tribe quests + all tribes max quest (I think that was cut in ShB?), Deep Dungeon (cut in ShB), Ultimates (one cut in ShB), Hildi Quest (cut in ShB), treasure dungeons, another limited job (none in ShB or EW), Unreal trials, six... I repeat: SIX(!!!) new endgame zones (Sinus Ardorum, Phaenna, Oizys, apparently another one in 7.5, Occult Crescent: South Horn + Forked Tower (I count the latter as a mini dungeon, not a zone) and North Horn(+forked tower))(pretty much cut in EW, since we only got island), Variant & Criterion Dungeons, new PvP maps and pretty much, a truckload of QoL stuff like speech bubbles, 2 dye channels, novice hall update, hrothgar & viera hats and the whiteboard, and all the same side stuff we always got (furniture, hairstyles, etc.).
Like holy shit! To me this feels like we're getting 2 expansions worth of non-msq content in just one
And all of this, while we're also getting a graphics update?
Can somebody fill in the blanks for me? Because I'm really not understanding how people are calling it "the worst expansion" over and over again, just because one part of content, while the rest of the game is exploding with stuff to do, keeping me hooked & engaged again after such a long time.
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I've been out of the loop for quite a few years, since I've stopped playing the game around 6.0, but now I came back and I'm extremely confused, because I'm having an absolute blast with this expansion, while I see people calling it the worst expansion everywhere.
From what I've seen, the only complaints I could find, were about the story. People complaining about Wuk Lamat, complaining about the pacing, and I can't find anything substantial besides this. I didn't find Wuk Lamat particularly interesting or good either, and perceive quite the same as Vivi from One Piece. An important story character for an arc, that I won't miss, once she's gone after said arc.
However, that can't be it. It doesn't make sense to me. Like, I understand, that the MSQ is a big selling point of the game, but at the end of the day 98% of the entire duration of an expansion you don't play the MSQ. You play the endgame. The side content. The fluff stuff. FFXIV is still an MMO, and even if the MSQ is a major selling point, content is what makes an MMO.
And regarding content, I've never seen a so content packed expansion in FFXIV. It's so oversaturated with content, that I don't even know when I'm gonna finish all of this. Even my best friend who quit after Stormblood, complaining about SE cutting content every expansion, reading the patch notes and complaining over and over that there's nothing worthwhile for him to come back, came back now and is saying "Now this MMO is good again."
Like we got and are getting: all the usual main stuff (msq, dungeons, raids/savage, alliance raids, trials & ex trials), savage alliance raid (new), tribe quests + all tribes max quest (I think that was cut in ShB?), Deep Dungeon (cut in ShB), Ultimates (one cut in ShB), Hildi Quest (cut in ShB), treasure dungeons, another limited job (none in ShB or EW), Unreal trials, six... I repeat: SIX(!!!) new endgame zones (Sinus Ardorum, Phaenna, Oizys, apparently another one in 7.5, Occult Crescent: South Horn + Forked Tower (I count the latter as a mini dungeon, not a zone) and North Horn(+forked tower))(pretty much cut in EW, since we only got island), Variant & Criterion Dungeons, new PvP maps and pretty much, a truckload of QoL stuff like speech bubbles, 2 dye channels, novice hall update, hrothgar & viera hats and the whiteboard, and all the same side stuff we always got (furniture, hairstyles, etc.).
Like holy shit! To me this feels like we're getting 2 expansions worth of non-msq content in just one
And all of this, while we're also getting a graphics update?
Can somebody fill in the blanks for me? Because I'm really not understanding how people are calling it "the worst expansion" over and over again, just because one part of content, while the rest of the game is exploding with stuff to do, keeping me hooked & engaged again after such a long time.
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