god I really need to stop looking for any FFXIV content online outside of my usual channels. I thought the discourse would've mellowed out after 9 months but I was very very wrong
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not liking a character is fine, not liking a story is fine. but the way people still talk about wuk it's like she pissed on their family and then set them on fire and then pissed on them again
I haven't been playing since Stormblood, but I know people also hate Lyse a LOT. I was personally never a fan of her, but I don't mind her. Was the reception as bad on Stormblood launch?
SB's weird cause at launch despite server issues I remember everyone loving the gameplay changes/duties/trials but as time went on new people started playing the game mostly for the story and that's how it ended up getting a bad reputation over time :/
Prob the most fun I had with an expac's launch
Like it's hard to explain to people who weren't there how Bard/Machinist had casting time for over two years until SB removed the casting time, jobs didn't have unique meters and gauges before it either. It almost felt like a different game in some ways
I've not had a problem with any of the character story archs, while I think about it.
I was still back in post-HW stuff when started back with Shadowbringers, and while I thought SB was kind of bleh, I don't think I saw what the whole negative stance was over.
I started in Shadowbringers, but from what I can tell it's definitely louder.
I don't think the current political climate is helping things though. It's way more en vogue for chuds to degrade a game featuring strong females, especially when the character in question is voiced by a minority.
There was hate towards her, nowhere near as bad as with Wuk. That said, from what i remember both the Lyse and Zenos hate was a thing that became bigger and viler after Stb, specially since people could hide behind the "she is a white savior, its not misogyny" thing
I avoided discussions about SB the entire time because I was enjoying it and it wasn't until late ShB that I discovered that people hated both her and the expansion as a whole.
The way people react to the DT story (which is a good story, and lays groundwork for exciting stuff to come) is my litmus test now for if people need to be insta-blocked.
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Prob the most fun I had with an expac's launch
Though I remember the crystal pushing payload-type mode being pretty fun
I was still back in post-HW stuff when started back with Shadowbringers, and while I thought SB was kind of bleh, I don't think I saw what the whole negative stance was over.
I don't think the current political climate is helping things though. It's way more en vogue for chuds to degrade a game featuring strong females, especially when the character in question is voiced by a minority.