Can we get choices that really matter and have a effect?

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

OP you're talking about a completely different game to FFXIV. Every single game in the series has followed a mostly linear path, with some diversions depending on certain character developments. It's a tied and true method of storytelling; while trying something new could be effective, this is neither the franchise nor the medium to do so. Yet you want to make a radical shift in development resources, something you vastly underestimate the time and money cost of, because...you want it? There'a literally no other reason other than "But I want it though waaaaaaaah". Player agency doesn't mean much when you end up with the exact same endpoint regardless of whatever big decisions you made up to that point; why do you think Mass Effect 3's ending is so maligned?

I get it, there are some games that do develop meaningful consequences for the choices you make (see: Undertale and Lisa: the Painful). But those are entirely different mediums that have the freedom to be able to let your choices have consequence; FFXIV cannot and does not.

Not because want because it would make the story actrually worth something... because when you have a story that you know how its going to end their is no point in even reading/listening the story at all..

I mean really if you paid 27 dollars to go into a movie lets say and from the first 4 mins of the movie the frame work of the story and movie tells you the exactly how its going to end why would you even sit there to watch the movie?

This one reason why most storys flat out suck today because even before you see the "villian" you know that the "villian" will not matter they will create chaos for x amount of days which will be cut down to about 32-40mins of the movie depending on movie length and then no matter what the hero magically pops up gets victory after a few bad things and at the end the hero lives the villian dies or gets locked up that is literaly every story with one side ... however society and people are so dumbed down that they submit to this type of story even though they know it sucks and theres no point in it when there are no twist no turns no suffering in the story no reason to have a emotional tie to it.