Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
I already said this. VI and VII are the darkest the mainline series has ever gotten, though FFXV comes damn close.





It....doesn't? The Garleans almost go completely extinct in Endwalker alone.

Throughout the rest of FFXIV proper, the last of the Ancients goes extinct, the dragons are heavily endangered, with few of the First Brood remaining, Thavnair loses an unspecified number of its people, countless races on The First are extinct or barely hanging on by a thread (I guess we can count that as happening in the game itself, since the Flood of Light was an HW event), and I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of stuff. (EDIT: Yeah, like the Umbral Calamity that literally changed the entire world -- the entire impetus between 1.0 and 2.0.)

But, for the long answer, FFXIV being a live service games makes it practically impossible for there to be heavy, long-term consequences to the world at large. The basic framework of the setting needs to be the same for new players as well as people who've completed the latest patch. Would be kinda awesomely tragic if you couldn't, say, pick Roegadyn anymore after some event in the game made them basically extinct as a species, but it would also be horribly unfair.
So…you’re just saying what many people in here have a problem with. Consequences only occur for the antagonists and nameless npcs. The main cast is perfectly fine and the world is perfectly fine. Whereas in other ff games the world is either destroyed or devastated, characters actually have consequences tied to their actions, etc etc.