Please no more time travel

Please no more Wuk Lamat

I appreciate Dawntrail. ❤️ But I detest a certain two headed idiotic character who’s behind I can’t wait to kick. 😡 Other then that, all is well. ☺️

In my opinion, the scapes were not implemented well. Firstly, the frame is much too thick and the scapes themselves are much too small! You can't use them like that for a panorama window. It can't be that difficult to build an item in such a way that you can actually use it and that it meets the wishes of the community, can it? I just don't understand this fuss from Square anymore. The same with the editor! Why is it so damn difficult for Square to let us put things where we want them?

Looking back on it, Krile's story was the most tacked on portion of the whole story, even as far back as the Endwalker stingers. If they wanted to make it more organic, then it should have been the connective tissue between the contest and the second half of the story. It should have lead the way, not poor story in New Mexico.

brother did nobody tell you that it's width then height, X then Y axes Skin: 1, 21 Hair Color: 3, 19 Eye Colro: 2, 1

Thats crazy no games com untill the year 20,224

I haven't been able to slog my way through this expansion yet. Wuk Lamat is possibly the worst character I've had to deal with (she's so BORING), and everything just feels like it's moralizing to me about something I couldn't care less about. I realize that they wanted to take us away from the whole "world is gonna end" seriousness, but I would still like to have a compelling reason to play. The pacing has been awful, there's been next to no fighting outside of dungeons, and NONE of the characters have been memorable. Poor Krile is still just a footnote hoping she'll get a chance to ask about her grandfather.

I hope internally they will bench Daichi Hiroi. 6.1 onwards the story is so mid until 7.0 where it became terrible

After playing all the MSQ from DT, and let me tell you, it took me SO long, I can safetly say its the first expansions MSQ that I literally, didnt like nor enjoy. Its like playing a whole different game. All the first part is about an NPC that doesnt change at all in all her journey, she starts as a hyped, ultra optimistic and boringly accepting character to... that, just that. Somehow she has some powerups out of nowhere, and outshines WoL all the time, while the character only does a "mhm" to everything she says or does. Second part I was like "WELP, here we go to adventure!" Just for it to be rushed and get back to Wuk doing the same shenenigans from the first part. I was incredibly dissapointed in how little is Kryile story developed, and how, for no apparent reason, the scions not important/present for most of the story. One thing that really bothered me is that I felt nothing at all. No empathy, no love, no sadness. All the story was so plain, obvious and the characters so forced, I couldnt feel a thing, while on other expansions I even cried with many stories and characters. I love FFXIV, I love Yoshi-P, but IMO it was terrible to say the least. We came from two INCREDIBLE expansions, for me, the best stories in the game. And this was a major dissapointment to me. Either way, I really hope in the future we go back to our scion lads and all this new expansion and all gets a time off to say the least. Anyway, this might be a terrible rant, but yeah, sadly is how I feel about DT MSQs.

mmo devs are screwed no matter what, there will always be people who are unhappy something isn't being done the way they want it lol. This has always been the case, it's just now people make a bigger fuss online when they aren't happy often time far louder than the people who are happy or just neutral.

Dawn Trail is literally just like ShadowBringers. It had essentially the same exact kind of start of the game and world building. Yet people LOVE Shadow Bringers and are "mixed" on Dawn Trail. Honestly, I just chock it up to people being fickle. 3 to 6 years ago you can satisfy them with something for several years or months, then later they want something else. People lack self-awareness of themselves and what they actually want as well. When you're more in-tune with yourself you rarely find the time or interest in complaining about things and instead you move on to different things and quit wasting your time. The people who complain about DawnTrail are the same people who complete EVERY piece of "new" content within 24-48 hours and then complain that they're bored and "there's nothing to do." People truly have TOO much time on their hands and don't understand the meaning of deferral of gratification and savoring something while you have it. You can only experience something once, so enjoy it. Sink your teeth into it slowly. It took me like 4-6 weeks to complete DawnTrail. Mostly because I had to work and only had a couple days to truly dedicate my mind to it. I don't mindlessly play games unless I'm grinding something.

i have some criticisms of dt but overall i liked it. & i also like wuk lamat. so glad im not miserable enough to let a fictional character tilt me & get me crying about it on every comment section 😁

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Im just hoping that if they had plans to keep Wuk Lamat as a recurring character that they have either scrapped that or at the very least scaled her role back significantly. This is the first xpac that I have skipped cutscenes and dialogue because I was simply so fed up with a character and I hope all of that is behind me now.

Wuk Lamat ruined the expansion.

Why is he talking to outlets no one cares about? He's really starting to look like a boomer... Also why is everyone trying to gaslight me into thinking the ONLY problem was the story...

Where is our vacation? Toward the launch of dawntrail promotion, for it was a vacation for the wol, yet we just ended up playing side kick the whole time. Where is my beach episode where we and the scions play volleyball while eating tacos? Like where is the fun 😢

cant wait for XVI to come to xbox

We should have had a break from Wuk Lamat for bigger part of second half of the MSQ. The final trial has her basically stealing the show while Krile and G'raha are just... sitting there? I'd like it way more if they all came to help instead of Wuk soloing the boss for us.

Why does it prompt me to visit the official website when im going to buy? New player btw

I'm sorry but I found that "partition" very disappointing.

The pace being slow is an understatement...

The idea they had was good, regarding scions supposed "rivalry" and competing for the throne, but god the execution was abysmal. The first half felt like a babysitting job, and to me the best part was when we got to Yak'Tel. Shaaloani is definitely a product of many rewrites. I think the expansion could go on without them pushing in Estinien, Y'shtola and G'raha in the end to do, well, basically nothing.

I don't think storytelling is a strong part of Yoshi's skill set.

Sooo...if 14 is now released on Xbox does that also mean we maybe get FFXIII 1-3 on PS too? I played it on 360 years back and really wanna play it again but I don't have an Xbox anymore...

Yoshi P is a good fit for his job.

Also I don't find it fair to compare this garbage to ARR. ARR was the beggining of our story. We were NOBODIES when are began and we became the WoL by the end of it, saving 3 entire nations and killing literal gods in the process. Sure the pacing was slow, but what did people expected? That we got the isekai protagonist treatment and become superbeings starting the game? For DT this doesn't apply. We already came from an epic adventure of saving the entire universe and our "vacation" is taking care of a furry entitled princess and watch her tale of empowerment . Watch her become a being almos as powerful as us in a matter of days and with no effort at all? C'mon...

In regards to the viper controversy, I'd say it's literally always better for classes to be accessible to as many players as possible. There are many players out there that prefer to commit to a class based on the class's aesthetic and theming rather than the class's gameplay or "skill level" While not every class needs to play exactly the same, i believe that they do need to be relatively easy to pick up and do well with for anyone that feels like doing so. Imagine they released a class that you absolutely love the look of, but then you can't play it because it's literally too hard for you or the gameplay feels unlike what you enjoy. That's such a waste imo... And it's exactly why i think it's better to make the game's difficulty come from the boss-fights instead of the class-rotations. The argument of "git gud" could always be made by the elitist gamer, but rather than "gitting gud" i think it's better if more players can simply craft the kind of character they appreciate without too much hassle or growing pains.

ew no time travel sucks always

Dawntrail's msq feels like it's 90% written by AI. They feed it B rated movies and random documentaries on LATAM cultures and let it write the msq. Honestly. It's so freaking bad.

I get that they wanted us to "learn about the various cultures" as part of yhe adventure, but that's just like taking beast tribes and making them mandatory... It could've been optional and a greater emphasis could've been put on CHARACTERS having MEANINGFUL and SIGNIFICANT scenes together. What makes a journey like this is quite literally the friends you take it WITH. Not the ones you meet briefly for like 2-3 levels along the way. Leave exposition and culture digging for the optional side content and keep the plot intriguing and free to be a plot instead of an introduction. I would've been 50 times more invested in these new places and cultures if the story that traveled through them was written more elegantly and skillfully. Instead we got heavy hamfisted obligatory exposition and "speak to wuk lamat" over 100 times... It's just sad, man...

I am honestly shocked at how Mixed the Reviews are. Granted IT Had the Same abyssmal Pacing as SB and EW, wich has become unbearable for many people. Doesn't Help that Wuk Lamat is as divisive as pineapple on Pizza. I am honestly kinda hopeful the next Story Bits are better received in the Future. Hell I despised heavensward without the Post msq so there is hope i believe

I'm so glad they don't force you to be Val. He is the least cute out of the bunch and I wanna be the catboy! I just downloaded the demo.

I still want my tacos. And my relaxing train ride through Eorzea Texas. And a beach vacation day. We got nothing of all of that. Only repetetive culture greetings (nothing against that but why 6 times the same way? Some more diversity in writing would've been nice! Also some parts of the Game treat us like lil kids without a functioning brain. Come on! Our WoL ages with us so please treat us like the adults we are by now!) I personally don't mind a fully new cast as long as the Scions get their surprise arrivals every now and then like Y'Shtola and Raha for anything realm related, the Twins for diplomacy and maybe Spy Thancred on a secret mission. But basically saying we only got Lamat'yi on our butts 24/6 was only bc the original cast got too expensive? Thats the wrong thing to say after all the money they made with Shb and EW. But Erenville, Krile and Lamat'yi (and maybe Koana or Bakool Ja Ja) as parts of the new Scions is something I'm looking forward too. And hey, we finished the supposed to be "ARR 2.0", so it's only getting better! Hopefully, for a 2nd dlc like that I won't pay anymore. Sorry, not story. It was just too weak.

D.T is the battle content and QoL expansion, for the most part. As for the story, yeah. The first half was okay at best. The second half of the story was good on paper but ruined heavily by Wuk Lamat. I am positive that if we were done with W.L by the end of the first hald of the story, and from there embark on a new adventure to Alexandria with the Scions and Erenville, then most fans would've been happy. We could've done so much, first go to S9 with the Scions and explore the city, compare it to other civilizations. Investigate Origenics. Fight against Zoral Ja and close our story of W.L for the rest of the expansion. Then we arguen with Sphene a la Emet Selch in a war of ideals and morality and we get the living Memory angle, do some twist so it does not hsve to be the same as the Endsinger and boom, done. Instead of hyper focusing on W.L, they could've done the true backstory of Krile, the organization known as preservation and so on.

All I know is I didn’t feel like I went on an adventure. And neither did Krile.

As drk main I felt betrayed by this expac take a good move and replace it with nothing and my reward for toughing it out the worst msq yay...

Yoshi P seems to be clueless as to what people want now and whats going on.

I am of two minds with Dawntrail. On the one hand, I enjoyed it just fine. It's my third favorite expansion base MSQ (behind EW and ShB), because I really think 4.0 and 3.0 were ultimately pretty weak and carried by their patch MSQ. Nonetheless, that doesn't stop me from believing that there are some flaws and issues with DT and the writing team as it stands that need to be ironed out. For one, there is a certain character that just needs to be put on the backburner. They got 3 expansions' worth of spotlight in one MSQ, whereas most big deal characters are lucky to get even one fifth of an expansion in terms of spotlight. That just can't happen. Other than that, while a lot of the concepts carried the writing for me, what YoshiP said about how they're trying to newer and less initiated writers involved very much rang true, because you can feel it in the writing. If he cares at all about the future of the game, or at least the story, he's going to get some more proven writers to more directly oversee the narrative. It's fine to let the next generation of writers cut their teeth on a new story, but you don't do that without any safety checks or fallbacks in the way of more veteran writers there to rein things in. Please don't ever let the newbies have complete control over the story again. Lastly, and I think it can be attributed to the "newbie writers" thing: while it doesn't permeate all of the writing, a lot of it felt like it was treating the player, or the player's character, like a child. While ShB and EW felt like they put me on equal terms with them, this time I kinda felt relegated to the kid's table, where the "big adult Scions" side-eyed my character and smirked patronizingly as if they were watching their child play with other children from the neighbourhood in the nearby sandbox. I didn't enjoy that.

my most sincere opinion is that I don't care what a certain part of the community says, as a Latino I enjoyed every part of the story and the environments, the parallels with the Mayas, Aztecas and Incas, in addition to the reflection of my idiosyncrasy in certain characters, the public reaction seemed excessive and disproportionate to me but it doesn't surprise me eithe, I think I've never felt so disappointed with the FF community, for me this expansion was always a prologue but I guess for many it is not enough, dawntrail is a 9/10 for me

I’m nearly done with the MSQ for DT. Maybe it’s because I took things at a slower pace, but I didn’t mind the story. It wasn’t amazing, but it was fun. GNB and DNC are still fun to play, that’s what matters most to me.

You’re absolutely right about needing a class with a skill ceiling. I used to play piano summoner *because* it was piano summoner and the dps was nice. Instead of Skill = reward it’s reward for doing Nothing. We have to wait for years to MIGHT see this, but right now, I’m bored. Bored as hell. Happy for yall that wont be afraid to blind prog savage, I’d like to with ya. But this game got easy way too much. Hopefully Bozja 2.0 saves my boredom.

I wanna know when we're getting more furniture placement and more glam plates (cause of picto and viper), that should have been the first thing they put in the game

"The expansion was slow because we were meeting new people and exploring different cultures" ...You mean the same thing we do literally every expansion, Yoshi P? That's a hollow excuse for bad writing.

Seems like a cop-out of an answer. Writers or writer's bosses should never try to justify their lacklustre work. You take the feedback and improve, not try to convince people that what they experienced was good for x, y, and z reasons. It didn't hit. Acknowledge that it wasn't the quality it should have been and try and improve.

God it is almost like the devs know what they are doing, i called from day one the reason there was so much slow world building was so everything in part 2 would hit harder and that the viper changes were already in the pipeline before launch, I feel like the "community" has just become full of itself and feel like they gotta complain about everything, trust the devs they know what they are doing

The lack of the scions wouldn't have been as big of a deal if wuk lamat wasn't so unbearable. You cant replace fleshed out, loved characters with a character that we are told to like because we are playing her story now.

Just speaking for myself, I didn't expect Dawntrail to be this big epic adventure like Endwalker was. Endwalker wrapped up so much story you can't honestly expect whatever followed it to be at all on the same level. I really loved Dawntrail. It is the first step in a new direction for where the series is going. I can guarantee in 5 or 6 years people will be saying it is their favorite expansion because it introduced one thing or the other. I am excited to see what is next. Yes I agree the Scions could've done more, but they've all had several expansions of content already and aren't going anywhere (at least not now). It is fine to let new characters have their time. Also if you dislike Wuk Lamat because you found her annoying I don't think we can be friends.

dawntail? More like YAWNtail