Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
This is what people come to Final Fantasy for-not for this "House of Lords/House of Commons" nonsense.
Your speaking for a very large fanbase here without any real justifications. I highly doubt the majority of fans, weather it be just XIV or the series as a whole get mad at the idea of turning a monarchy into a democracy.

I was around when 3.3 dropped. People weren't mad that Aymeric became Lord of the House instead of a king. Hell Ishgard pre HW wasn't even a Monarchy anymore anyway, the church had already assumed full control and the nation was a Theocracy with a Noble Class under it.

Stormblood has us reinstate one Monarchy and reform another into a Democracy.

Eulmore was a Democracy pre Vauthry, we just returned it to that state.

None of the OG 3 City-States are Democracies. The idea that they have somehow gotten less focus is flat wrong.

The game treats various forms of gov with a pretty even hand. But even if it didn't I think its a bizarrely narrow view to get mad at the idea of a Democracy or several of them existing in a world of High Fantasy and Gods. There not mutually exclusive at all.