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[AwesomeJr44]

I keep saying this and you keep ignoring it

Have you considered that you might not be worth responding to? Just considering that you've responded to him multiple times and haven't gotten a response yet. We do only get limited forum posts per day and we need to spend them on topics/people who are worth those posts. (I've got a spare one for you today cause I wasn't on the forums much )

Emit was an Amazing and sympathetic Villain

Ah yes, Emit-Silk. My favorite cloth-based villain.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Ah yes, Emit-Silk. My favorite cloth-based villain.

Right? He was pretty great

[Soge01]

Ah yes, Emit-Silk. My favorite cloth-based villain.

That's probably the name of the crafting material his clothes are made out of. xD

[SannaR]

Idk man XI still found a way to weave in Zied, Gilgamesh and Aldo into everything at some point. If not also Gessho. The only character they didn't weave back in even when it would have made perfect sense is the only male Mithra they ever introduce to the playerbase. That and Shantotto also found her way into places if only to be the "I'm better than you." chaos gremlin that she is. Heck there were times when Prince Trion would show up even though you'd think the heir to the San d'Orian throne wouldn't be interested in Aht Uhrgan affairs and be better at disguises.

The only thing XI does differently is allow you as long as you've done your starting city's Rank 3 Mission, are level 30 and have enough fame is start in on the other expansions. As sure there is a new cast that you get to spend time with, but the Npcs I've named along with a few I haven't all wind up into said expansion's plotline at some point or another. All but a few where it would be really hard for them to drop by like Prishe, Selh'teus, and Lilisette. Of course outside of Chains of Promothia and Rise of thr Zilart you wouldn't get far as most zones have monsters that are for lv 60+ right off the bat.

[Nav_Fae]

Krile is going to become the next Lyse

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Krile is going to become the next Lyse

Well they both got Ponytails, so thats a start

[Vahlnir]

...and your source is?



No, just you. I keep saying this and you keep ignoring it, you speak for yourself and no other.

Are they generalizing too much? Probably. But I wouldn't say that they are the only one who feels this way. It's not just them.

[Xeronia]

While Krille does need some attention in the story I do question making her a lead character when it is yet again a case of "So we are just going to ignore Eureka I assume?" where you saw a fair bit of her character. Honestly my biggest issue with the current direction is ignoring side content when it should be relevant. I am really scratching my head at a void story without Mhach required at the very least (Not to mention Unukalhai or Cylva which would be far too much to expect people to have to do for the story). I understand it is a bit much to ask people to complete a ton of side content for the story but trying to tell a story without it just seems rather disjointed.

[Boblawblah]

The great thing about "no small amount of people" and other generalizations is that you can play the "whaaa? I'm just sharing my opinion here-desu" card when it's clear that you were originally trying to argue that a huge percentage (not max, but certainly close) feel the same way.

Obviously some amount of people dislike the fanservice, it's be almost statistically impossible for that to NOT be the case.

I will say (imo), after having watched through the cutscenes in Endwalker a 2nd time again recently, with how dark everything gets, it IS sort of refreshing to have some levity thrown in. Hell, Hythlodaeus even mentions it at the end, and I agree. I believe how you feel about the characters in the fanservice color your opinion of the fanservice itself. For people less inclined to like G'raha, it's going to be painful, but I'm willing to bet the Emet Selch lovers (me included) enjoyed seeing a lighter side of him as well (as light as he gets at least)

[ReynTime]

They honestly could have had added a couple in the cast this expansion. No diss against the other races, but let's be real here:
In 5.X, Yoshida implied that adding NPCs from the two most recent races would not be feasible, as it wouldn't fully reflect the demographic established by the lore team. That being that Hrothgar were essentially concentrated only to Bozja, whereas while Viera were free to roam, they were few and far between, and Male Viera would have virtually no prominence due to them being even more isolationist than females.
Hrothgar NPCs appearing in Garlemald makes sense, as they were there primarily so there'd be a focus on the people that got conquered by Garlemald and were now integrated into their society.
Sharlayan stood out like a sore thumb when not only is one of the most prominent characters in there a Male Viera, we then have the SGE quests being all about another Sharlayan male Viera. Where's the rarity? It being a hotpot of different ethnicities begs some questioning, as while it would make sense for Eorzeans who escaped with Nyunkrepf to be diverse, how all the other non-Eorzean races managed to be so widespread in what's essentially a rather isolationist state is striking.
All the while, female Viera have no new character introduced that has any plot prominence, and Hrothgars only have the one voiceless and forgettable NPC in Garlemald that's "mean to the natives".

A waste.

We could have had anything else in Radz-at-Han, but we didn't. We had the usual Hyur and... Raen? Sure, they explain this, but just replace Raen with literally any other race, and it would fit. There's no real reason for Square Enix to hide these other races, as they can quite easily come up with lore reasons for them to show up elsewhere. Square can come up with whatever excuse they need, there's no need to tell us players that we won't see them "because the lore wills it". They make the lore. And they're not being very consistent at following it.

I do wish that the new foray into the Thirteenth and potential developments for the First add more diversity to our main roster. It doesn't have to be Hrothgar or Viera, it can be Roegadyn and Lalafell. I just mention the former two because they're the ones with the lowest representation in the Source, and it would do wonders to boost their popularity and make use of otherwise interesting races.

Them recycling Krile sounds great on paper, as it would offer Krile a bit more plot permanence and express her skills better... but that's all it is: recycling. Square has all these wonderful ideas on the backburner. They're just benching them "because lore".

Miqo'te were also supposed to be somewhat rare to find around. Yet they don't even try to hide their catboy/catgirl bias when introducing NPCs for side content or even MSQ.