Open Letter to the Devs Regarding Eden's Verse: Reflugence [Spoilers]

[Korten]

The game actually says nothing of the sort. It gives examples of some people reaching such conclusions (but also, for example, those in charge of the reconstruction effort rejecting the notion of redistributionist schemes), but the developers are very much of the view that it is for the player to decide whether how they will view such perspectives. Those presented are purely in-game perspectives of NPCs.

Yeah no... Stormblood never paints Imperialism/Colonialism in ANY positive light. And the idea that it leaves it up to the player is completely ignoring the text. When your dealing with the refugee situation in Ul'dah it doesn't "both sides" the situation and clearly makes you sympathize with their plight and pushes the player in the story to find a solution that will benefit everyone. It paints anyone who tries to exploit them or remove them in a bad light.

Here's a good article going over how Stormblood treats the topic of colonialism.

https://medium.com/@urbanfriendden/f...e-a6e65549fe31

FFXIV has a lot to say. Even something as simple as allowing Men and Women to wear tuxes and dresses in marriage is making a statement.'

Edit: In regards to the Ishgard thing, I personally haven't done any of the reconstruction efforts but you need to look at how it presents it. It's all about context. A bad person saying want to do a bad thing isn't painting it in a way as to make it ambiguous whose right.