Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
A couple of the Scions outright admitted that if they were in Emet-Selch's position, they would do the exact same thing as he sought to do. Furthermore, it has arguably never been framed as a 'right' and 'wrong' conflict so much as the Sundered doing everything possible to protect their own interests and survive whereas the Unsundered have sought to do the same thing.

There's also a number of interviews containing commentary from the development team explaining that it is all a matter of perspective, though even putting that aside it's entirely fictional so I remain baffled by some of the emotional pleas and not so subtle attempts to frame people as being 'wrong', 'insane' or 'bad' for liking, rooting for or coming to sympathise and understand specific characters and factions. The prudent approach, I rather suspect, would be to agree to disagree on subjective plot elements.

Once again, I also feel obligated to point out that just because a handful of individuals on an increasingly niche forum do not like particular plot points or lines of speculation that does not necessarily mean that the story told is 'terrible'. We'll see how Endwalker actually plays out in a couple of days, at any rate.

Shadowbringers received overwhelmingly positive feedback for its nuanced story, intriguing characters and thought provoking narrative. I'll be tempering my expectations as I usually do, though given the stakes for an impressive finale I find myself cautiously optimistic. Even Stormblood, which isn't my favourite expansion, still ended up being far superior to what the competition offered as far as I'm concerned...and even then, Stormblood's main issue was the split focus.
Well said.

It's unfortunate really, but I suspect the issue is that certain individuals struggle to separate fiction from reality, also refuse to grasp the nuance involved and cannot accept that people have differing interpretations of it and/or different story preferences (a lot of people like games as fairly unconstrained "what ifs"), and so attempt to shame others for disagreeing with them... so be it, but it's not exactly the sort of person I see any value in engaging.