The core story was good, not godlike, but good... but the patch content, criterion dungeons, relic content, and.. island content.... was just a means to log in, rush to the end, and that's it. Side note, I completely agree that 16 pulled resources that hampered the development of 14. They did a good job, but you can feel that difference.

I think it's Post content was kind of slow, probably mostly because by that time the team was in serious Go Time for Dawntrail and trying to get the graphics overhaul completed, but as far as MSQ went, I had a blast! I loved it, I have so many good memories of playing through it, and it was what made me want to do my small time live stream so I could share this story with some of my friends who do not have the time or money to get into the game for themselves, or just aren't really gamers. I am going back through EW for the second time, starting recently, and I'm super psyched to show them the cumulation of this tale. For me, ShB and EW made this one of my favorite games of all time, and made me feel like I was part of the kind of book that I fell in love with and would pick back up every so often to revisit over the years. As a lover of fantasy novels, this gave me the same kind of nostalgic euphoria and deep emotions as a visit back into the worlds of Middle Earth, Elundium from Road to Underfall, or Osten Ard from the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy. Only this time, I was not merely a spectator, but I was part of the story and the adventure, co-authoring a character with a major part to play and watching as they grew, developed and became who they were meant to be. Could the post content have been better? Sure. Post content was kind of weak. But I wanted to revist tthe MSQ almost as soon as I finished it, and was so glad to see it had been added to the NG+ chapters.

To add more jobs at this stage I wish they would just make Archer, Rogue, Lancer ect their own jobs that brach off with different playstyles rather than come up with new jobs. You can resuse weapons between jobs but the backbone of the creation is already made. I want to play an archer but I don't want to deal with the music gimmick. I want to play rogue without the ninjutsu aspect. Instead of 2 new jobs each expansion I'd take 1 and a rework.

I think the post msq was a nice setting for a future story, they were def giving us a taste of something that they have in mind for the 13th. I honestly did like it and excited to know more of the 13th.

EW post-msq was just an expanded Trial series. I enjoyed it. It added lore that can be dipped into later just like every other trial series that has been used before in various ways. I just disagree with people viewing it as MSQ when its just an expanded Trial series. I kind of wish that Werlyt had gotten this amount of production. I didn't care for the Four Lords. I love farming Sephirot but the other 2 of the triad I can leave. I just hope that the future Trial series will get the TLC that the Four Fiends/Golbez/Zeromus got.

I don’t think it was a complete failure per se, but I think they should’ve wrapped up the arc in Shadowbringers. Endwalker dragged on and the patches weren’t stellar because Yoshi was focusing on 16. The story could’ve been cut in half and still be fine.

I do wish they had given Zero and Golbez their own expansion but if we do get a void expansion we do still have The Cloud of Darkness as a possible antagonist, especially since Crystal Tower is required in the MSQ

I'm 100% fine if they just stopped adding more jobs at this point. There is something for everyone and yeah, we're reaching critical mass

I personally liked it, but meh I like shadow more. Post end was meh for me.

The reason I quit with endwalker, and pretty early into it, was because I was sick of how unfulfilling it felt to play the game. The story was fine, but the parts where I actually had to play were such a drag. I couldn't help but feel like most classes play the same and had very little skill expression. Stormblood may have lacked in story, but it more than made up for it with gameplay and class expression. Shadowbringers took that away but compensated with fantastic story writing. Endwalker provided none of those and didn't even have post game content for me to look forward to because I was and still am a fan of Eureka and Bozja.

Endwalker is "fine" and thats the problem. For the culmination of several plot points, all battle system development, and new systems, its just "fine." Nothing note worthy. They perfected the formula and it showed

Honestly if someone doesn't like Endwalker they sound like a very disappointing person and I'm glad they aren't in my life.

This one was ight. It's more of a closure thing. And now that it's done maybe we can get a harder game now. Stop making this game for the solo players and babies

To me it was the weakest expansion. In terms of content it was super meh aside from Pandemonium (kinda) and the introduction of Criterion dungeons. Alliance Raid was super forgettable. I found the void arc kind of a mess, and the relic weapons was just bad, straight up. Hildibrand was the only redeeming factor about the whole thing. And in terms of story, I did not like that they decided to go the "let's subvert player expectations" at all. Zodiark is not the bad guy, is actually Metheon or w/e her name was, which the devs confirmed was the twitter bird. All the hints that Hydaelyn was actually bad and had tempered us that started in Shadowbringers and literally continue until after you kill Zodiark, even accompanied by a long cutscene of Venat going mad? Poof, gone once you enter the second half of Endwalker, all of that is gone and is threated as if it had never happened. The last area with the sacrifices then 1 second late they go "Hey, you actually have a device that can bring them all back, but don't use it now because we need them to sacrifice themselves to make STAIRS AND TRAMPOLINES" was awful. Is it bad? No, it's not, but it would have been much, much better if they just delivered on what they had set up for 10 years, even if it ended up predictable, rather than introducing a completely new character and antagonist at the last hour.

It's still the weakest expansion, no matter how much people will cope that it was "the end of the era" doesn't mean MSQ is the only thing I should care about. You can't just go "I liked it" when half of the other FF14 community was left with nothing. And most disappointing was Relic Weapons. Unlike other expansion it was given to players on a silver platter, they hold no value, you didn't go our and grind for them, they didn't felt deserved, when I look at them, they don't hit the same like the ones I farmed in ARR, HW, SB and ShB.