Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
The expansion is not even a year old yet and not everyone completed 6.0 in December or even January. Plus, many people have said they initially enjoyed EW, but having gone through it again on an alt or NG+ their impression changed.

I just think it's ridiculous that anyone thinks in a current expansion that criticism and negative feedback is going to stop after a certain period of time. You've got at least another year of it and that's not including anyone who doesn't start playing until after 7.0. EW is simply too divisive to stand the test of time being remembered fondly vs. controversial, it will at the very least be another SB in the library of expansions. Worse, because it was the finale.

This isn't even going into if 7.0 isn't good and more people will start to question why the arc was ended prematurely to usher in a 'lackluster' story.
/shrug

Quote Originally Posted by tokinokanatae View Post
The Garleans lived in one of the most technologically advanced, powerful nations of the currently known world for long enough that anyone that had experienced the hardships you speak of directly would have been a child at the time.
Even if the average Garlean had a better standard of living than, say, the average Eorzean, their lives still weren't free of hardship or suffering - their nation was propped up on a policy of aggressive expansion, its government was fascistic, and the civilians that traveled abroad were often met with understandable scorn even if they didn't approve of its war machine. A lot of Garleans were soldiers or had family in the military, or otherwise supported it through engineering and medicine.

I might not agree with the cause they fought for, but that doesn't make their hardships nonexistent.