Quote Originally Posted by Zohar_Lahar View Post
As much as I see complaints about goblins being "not as serious as Coil", I'm wondering if the story arc of goblins and Alexander in XIV is actually based on unused story ideas for XI. Almost all the Illuminati (even ex-member Mutamix) appears similar to the moblins.
It's possible they picked up the thread and ran with it I suppose. The Goblins in FFXI never really had to function as a major threat, though, so their being kind of off-kilter was generally okay. I actually rather like them in FFXIV, but I never would have pegged them as an evil on par with Bahamut himself. They've got a lot of work to do still to really establish that here, I think, and it remains to be seen if Midas will really make them feel more threatening.