One of the big reasons that it fell to a low score so quickly is because theܫ conversation was dominated by bad faith.

It takes most player๊s like a week to beat the MSQ, more if you didn't get into the early access, even more if you're doing side content before finishing the story.

I refuse to believe that someone leaving a negative review on DAY ONE was somehow able to beat and fairly evaluate the story with♉in 24 hours. Yet there were hundreds of these negative day 1 reviews on both steam and metacritic. These reviews can pretty safely be attributed to people who either skipped all cutscenes and thus don't have a valid opinion of the story, or bigots who wanted to review bomb the game over its inclusion of a trans actress.

we were already seeing seeing signs of this behavior in 6.55 when Wuk Lamat first debuted, and endwalker suddenly got a bunch of negative reviews that 🌠totally weren't subconciously (or entirely conciously) motivated by transphobia or a fragile ego.

A lot of the early DT reviews are the same. Positive reviews trickle in much slower, because if you actually engage with the👍 story, you'll chew on it longer, meaning that reviewbombers get a big head start on you.

The voice actor isn't confusing anything. A lot of people hate wuk lamat BECAUSE she's voice by a trans woman, 🌼and have explicitly attacked her PUBLICALLY on all 𒀰her posts, streams, and even on other people's streams.

People who say she's a bad actor are lying. She proves her chops several ಌtimes.

There's a couple instances ไof her delivery being off but those moments are all so clearly the fault of 🌸voice direction and not acting.

So much of th𒈔is is bad faith criticism and thinly veiled bigotry

The abuse Sena has suffered is unforgivable. First of all, it's INSANE to blame a VA for any gripes you may have about the story or the character's lines. She's literally just reading lines off🎉 of a script (not to mention that people are neglecting the fact that voice actors are explicitly told by ෴a VO director how they should perform their lines).

It's also all so blatantly bigoted. Dawntrail received hundreds of negative reviews the MOMENT it launched. Not to mention negative reviews for patch 6.55 where she debuted. No one would drop a negative ꦿreview for an FFXIV MSQ on day 1 unless they intend it as harassment. That's extremely unreasonable.

Sena bears no blame for you not liking the msq. She bears no blame for you not liking wuk lamat. She's no♈t solely responsible for any poor deliveries in her performance, as she was being instructed by a director on how to speak.

This behavior is disgusting and i'm ashamed at how many people in the community have stood🍃 idly by or even encouraged this blatant hatred.

Anyone wh♏o says they become genuinely upset by simply seeing wuk lamat on screen or hearing her voice are to be ignored. That's such an extreme and unreasonable position to take (and very likely subconciously motivated by prejudice)