What is with the constant mistreatment of the Garlean story?(6.1 Patch spoilers)

[KariTheFox]

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?

[Theodric]

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.

I'd say that wanting the player character to wear clothing made by Tataru so she can drum up business counts as 'personal investment':



Which in itself adds weight to what people are saying. That their character isn't just being allowed to go off on an adventure with no strings attached and is once again just a useful tool to the Scions. They're friendlier about it than they were during the days of ARR but the status quo hasn't really changed which is unfortunate.

I swear you'd think xiv was the worst game out with how folks talk about it. I get not liking it but why stick around if you have all these issues?

There's plenty of stuff in the game that many of us like and comment on. This is a platform to provide feedback and is being used as such. It's not really the business of paying customers to try and dictate what they should and should not discuss, as far as I see it.

I daresay it isn't difficult to go and look at people's lodestone profiles to see what they engage with in-game, either. Especially since it's public information. Just because someone isn't thrilled with the direction the story is taking it doesn't mean they're not invested in other aspects of the game. I would have thought that to be obvious...but apparently not!