Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Also people seem to forget that FFXIV is still first and foremost a game that adheres to its tradition's roots while sprinkling new and modern themes told in current rpg stories. Its not ever supposed to be a dark high fantasy like people assume it to be for some odd reason.

We can criticize some of the execution in parts of this game's story, but if that comes at the expense of rewriting the plot to be less FF and more something akin to modern Western rpgs then you're missing the entire point of this game.
While I wouldn't call it really "dark", previous expansions(mainly ARR and Heavensward) had a different tone for me. It used to be darker, yes.