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[kehn]

There would be too much to risk in fighting back.

<sigh> the scions, the group everyone knows you're part of, is fighting. they are not guilty are they? did they worry about looking guilty? did the guards leave you alone after you surrendered and let your friends die? wtf are you talking about? the blessing of light is bs, that shit doesn't matter and is never mentioned in coil the hardest content in the game that also has a storyline. the no weapon thing is just plain stupid, you have it by the end of the cut scene and nothing is said about it in it. I for one main mnk. and if the power of my character is solely on the weapon i use that only servers as further insult from the dev team.

[Kedrah]

<sigh> the scions, the group everyone knows you're part of, is fighting. they are not guilty are they? did they worry about looking guilty? did the guards leave you alone after you surrendered and let your friends die? wtf are you talking about? the blessing of light is bs, that shit doesn't matter and is never mentioned in coil the hardest content in the game that also has a storyline. the no weapon thing is just plain stupid, you have it by the end of the cut scene and nothing is said about it in it. I for one main mnk. and if the power of my character is solely on the weapon i use that only servers as further insult from the dev team.

The Scions have less to risk. You're the Warrior of Light, you have more of an importance than them. So, no, they're not worried about seeming guilty (especially since they intended to sacrifice their lives), but they are probably worried about you seeming guilty. You are essentially a representative of the people of Eorzea, and they are not.

It has been said time and time again that the Blessing of Light was where most of your "specialness" came from. Right now you're just really not that powerful.

People are just mad about their character not being a perfect 100% badass that can escape any situation with no consequences. :\ Sometimes bad things have to happen and there's little to nothing to be done about it.

[Mistoltin]

People are just mad about their character not being a perfect 100% badass that can escape any situation with no consequences. :\ Sometimes bad things have to happen and there's little to nothing to be done about it.

Or people are unhappy that their characters cannot even attempt to attest the situation and attempt to fight back? That could have been a conversation option which then followed with you maybe trying to fight but being forced to run by the Scions, then they could drop a line that of any of them, you are the one who MUST survive.

The fact that such a thing is happening in an MMO is a disgrace. If they didn't want to make a game that adapted to people's characters of differing persuasions and personalities, then they shouldn't have bothered making a fucking MMO, where the backbone is the fact that these are OUR CHARACTERS participating in these events. That's what people are mostly upset about, the fact that even though despite everything our efforts wouldn't matter, we don't even get a chance to attempt anything.

[Kedrah]

Or people are unhappy that their characters cannot even attempt to attest the situation and attempt to fight back? That could have been a conversation option which then followed with you maybe trying to fight but being forced to run by the Scions, then they could drop a line that of any of them, you are the one who MUST survive.

The fact that such a thing is happening in an MMO is a disgrace. If they didn't want to make a game that adapted to people's characters of differing persuasions and personalities, then they shouldn't have bothered making a fucking MMO, where the backbone is the fact that these are OUR CHARACTERS participating in these events. That's what people are mostly upset about, the fact that even though despite everything our efforts wouldn't matter, we don't even get a chance to attempt anything.

Having a choice like that would surely have been interesting, but I'm perfectly fine with the way things played out (and so are a lot of other people). They were trying to portray that sometimes your character is going to be completely helpless. Could they have done that in a better way? Certainly, but this maximizes the drama and danger of the situation.