Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
As I have said before:



In any case I will continue to advocate for that which is aligned with my preferences. I would like to see a well-crafted story like that of Heavensward's where our main party at the time was more compelling than the one of Endwalker. That expansion is more befitting of being associated with "tales of loss, fire, and faith" with those protagonists compared to ones whose sacrifices were reversed and who, instead of losing anyone over the course of Endwalker, were gifted boons by their own parents and ultimately never faced lasting consequences as a result of their recent actions. I believe that should a more Heavensward-like approach been adopted for 6.0, both you and I would have found more satisfaction by way of reaching a compromise, which is what a significant number of players feel isn't happening at the moment.
You arn't looking for a compromise, you are looking to get a specific style of writing, what YOU want. I honestly dont care how the author chooses to write, and Im not going to sit here and tell them how they should write, and bring up other works and tell them they should be like so-so. This isn't a resistance to outside suggestions, this is me saying the Authors vision should be delivered THEIR way, not somebody elses way. This isnt Dragonage, or Game of thrones, or -insert title here-. If you want that, I believe you should go enjoy those titles, instead of trying to make and turn somebody elses work into another work.
Its just like how there was a time, and sometimes still is people form WoW that like to come into FFXIV and say it needs to be like Wow. Saying FFXIV needs to have the same systems to be successful. Lo and behold, FFXIV isn't using those systems, and is still very successful without it. Meanwhile WoW has to steal from others to be successful.

I sure hope you arn't trying to apply that crap on me. Ive said that FFXIV introduces new characters every expansion. And they appear when relevant.
And I am not against mature themes or tones being put into FFXIV, but I do reject that FFXIV needs to be a certain way to succeed. I think thats a load of nonsense. Time and time again people talk doom and gloom on this game, and it always pulls through with something fantastic and exciting.
History of this game has proven they know what they are doing and they do what people like.
Sure, not everybody will be happy. But I trust their decisions on the games direction more then somebody who will spend so much energy complaining about a character eating a Hamburger, or think every instance of fun and joy is bad.