Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
So yall don't think Stormblood, shadowbringers and Endwalker didn't have teeth because a minor character didn't die? First off plenty have died. Second character death is a fairly cheap way to tell a story. That death and the one in 3.0 were so impactful because we weren't expecting them. You can't really repeat it over and over and expect it to have the same effect, not when this community is constantly raising death flags with every trailer.
At the same time, playing off people's emotions by repeatedly "killing" off the same character is a cheap way to tell a story. Plot armor gets really really tiresome. You can 100% have impactful and meaningful deaths of important characters as we have seen in the past. The issue is that they have made systems that require those characters to be alive now, so in my mind it is impossible for a main character to actually die anymore so any attempt at it feels even cheaper.