The Ancients still deserved better, after everything

[AnEmissary]

Then I would truly prefer that the story had ended there, or completely changed in its focus, than continued on as this horrifying nightmare of a broken world. It's okay for things to end, if it means remaining true to the themes and prior material of the story. It would have done it credit, in my opinion, for a game to acknowledge that. It could have been followed on by an FFXIV 2: After Story sort of thing if the devs had wanted: a new and more modern MMO without the limitations with which this one is stuck, a technical metaphor for the expanded possibilities available in a whole world.

But if not, that's fine too. This just feels like an absolute betrayal of principles and themes that have been around since the very beginning.

'To give up on those one might conceivably save is not wisdom--it is indolence.' And I believe with my whole heart that there was a way for the Ancients to be saved, and in not doing so the story has abandoned the idea to which it has clung so tightly, even in this very expansion.

(Post has been edited to correct some typographical errors.)

[DPZ2]

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We will have to agree that while this story is not the story you wished to play through, it is the story that I played through and enjoyed.

It is not within either of our powers to change the way it has been written.

In the Multiverse, there is at least one Universe where your dream is true. There is another where the Ascians were successful with Bahamut and the world died.

This game is in neither of those Universes.

[AnEmissary]

We will have to agree that while this story is not the story you wished to play through, it is the story that I played through and enjoyed.

It is not within either of our powers to change the way it has been written.

In the Multiverse, there is at least one Universe where your dream is true. There is another where the Ascians were successful with Bahamut and the world died.

This game is in neither of those Universes.

But it is within our power to speak about what we liked and did not--this is, after, a forum whose first purpose is feedback about the game.

As a result, your response comes off as both crass and pointless. If you're wanting to say something, then say it outright.