No sense of fear in this game.

[Reynhart]

Oh! Imagine that the cities would live or die based on the help from adventurers and that the crafters would have to rebuild them. Sounds kinda awesome tbh

Yeah, it can be, but it would be a totally different game.
I don't know how many people would really like to have that burden.

In FFXI, after the hype was gone, no one would give a damn about NPC from Al Zhabi being kidnapped, except when it was the Taruporter