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LightningStrikes posted...

Stormblood is, overall, better than Heavensward - Heavensward has the better story but Stormbloods gameplay improvements, dungeons, trials, and areas give it the edge. This used to be a generally held opinion but now it seems like a hot take.

It's become a hot take because more and more people, especially after the Shadowbringers explosion, are getting into the game without the experience of how the old content used to play, and unlike myself most people aren't going to seek out that information out of curiosity. An enormous portion of the player base has no idea that melee skills used to cost meter, or that sprinting used your entire bar up. It's hard to appreciate the advancements when you never saw the original, and as a result the only thing people DO take into consideration is the story.

Just imagine, nobody starting up now is EVER going to experience Netflix Roulette.

I do think there's still obvious signs of the improvements in Stormblood though. The trials are definitely at the forefront of that.