Quote Originally Posted by PharisHanasaki View Post
It's interesting this was upvoted so much because clearly, the point was not understood. I too found this very cliche. The pretty and dumb girl gets sold and abused so she seeks revenge, and now she's evil and ruthless. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone forgives her because 'Oh, she had a sad past. And she's cute'.

She didn't say she had a problem with it, was merely discussing the character's background and motives.

They can talk about rape all they want in this game (it won't help the cause though, because people irl won't do shit about it, less someone sitting on a chair playing some videogames), but this particular character for me is super cliche.
Had their argument been, "This is a trope," then most people arguing against it would probably respond with a, "Yeah, so is most stuff in fiction and in this game." However, that wasn't strictly what their complaint was. They posted conveying their sensitivities, asking for people with similiar sensitivities to concur with them and a lot of people disagreed. When the end result is that the story is written how it's going to be written, the only sense one could make from complaining about it in this nature is that it should be different. Telling someone creating something, be it fiction or art or video games, what content they should exclude is stifling. A lot of people like FFXIV because it has a lot of variety of subject matters. When someone focuses on such a minor aspect of the story, to the point that it affects their enjoyment of the game, then it's not the story's fault.