Quote Originally Posted by hydralus View Post
Not like I was expecting anything different from an on-rails JRPG but I have no idea where you came up with the idea the WoL decided anything. They were told to go somewhere by Tataru, cut off at the pass by Estinien (just the fact that he's the one who bought the map makes it pretty clear it's not YOUR adventure), and you can't even choose who to bring with you because it's all scripted out. And of course you don't get to see a single coin out of the adventure. It was extremely half-baked errand running, again.
The story I saw is one where Tataru had a nice meal with us, and then suggested that we go treasure hunting because it might be fun for us, because she's our friend and is giving us a lead to follow up on. Not because she has any personal investment or desire to have anything to do with treasure. If you want to deny that your WoL has any agency of their own and just pretend you're a slave to following the quest text instructions, that's on you.

Also of course the game wasn't going to drop a huge pile of gil on us as a quest reward, that would devastate the player economy. What did you expect?