A game for 4 year olds

[aveyond-dreams]

Yeah that's exactly how one of WoW's expansions started, and said expansion saw an absolutely enormous drop in players that the game still hasn't recovered from 4 years later. Destroying beloved people and places simply for misery porn is a horrible idea, and there's already a perfect example of the consequences it would have on the game to show just how bad an idea it is.

Thank you for explaining why those of us who were into Garlemald, Ascians, Ancients, and traditional fantasy sort of locations and themes feel slighted by the way current FFXIV is going. Yoshi bulldozed it all to make room for what? A pale excuse for an FFIV crossover and the permanent handicapping of this game's afterlife and outer space lore?

Genius move. Yoshi really took a page out of Afrasiabi's book and integrated it into the game several times over and in the worst ways possible.

[Striker44]

Thank you for explaining why those of us who were into Garlemald, Ascians, Ancients, and traditional fantasy sort of locations and themes feel slighted by the way current FFXIV is going. Yoshi bulldozed it all to make room for what? A pale excuse for an FFIV crossover and the permanent handicapping of this game's afterlife and outer space lore?

Genius move. Yoshi really took a page out of Afrasiabi's book and integrated it into the game several times over and in the worst ways possible.

Personally, I find it the exact opposite. I loved the FFIV references in EW, was smiling my whole way through the moon, especially when the FFIV battle theme kicked in while fighting in Bestways Burrow, and I don't see anything at all as "handicapped" for the future. The remix of the FFIV boss theme used in the Scarmiglione fight is also one of just a couple remixes of past FF songs that I've liked just as much or more than the originals (the piano version of Cyan's theme used as part of the Tsukuyomi fight is the other).

Genuine question for you that others have asked, but you either didn't see if you have them on ignore or just chose to ignore anyway: You seem to truly hate absolutely everything about this game and find nothing enjoyable...why do you remain subbed?

[DPZ2]

Thank you for explaining why those of us who were into Garlemald, Ascians, Ancients, and traditional fantasy sort of locations and themes feel slighted by the way current FFXIV is going. Yoshi bulldozed it all to make room for what? A pale excuse for an FFIV crossover and the permanent handicapping of this game's afterlife and outer space lore?

Genius move. Yoshi really took a page out of Afrasiabi's book and integrated it into the game several times over and in the worst ways possible.

This doesn't even make sense. The poster was responding with a description of one of the past WoW expansions -- the equivalent to that which you'd like to see, and noted that such misery turned off players in droves, not that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Garlemald? You can enjoy the rebuilding as/when it happens in-game or off-screen. That worked well for years for Blizzard.
Ascians/Ancients? We've received the blessings of both Emet-Selch and Hythlodeus.
Traditional fantasy? Which particular Final Fantasy titles have you been playing that were "traditional" fantasy?
Handicapping the afterlife? Didn't you watch the cut scenes early in the game (post level 50, but still ...) about the movement of souls and the aether of the life stream?
Outer-space lore? We've been to the moon and the edge of the Universe. There may be nothing else, since our favorite bluebird seemed to imply that it was all gone. This game has never been Star Trek:Next Generation, and never will.

[Kazemon15]

This doesn't even make sense. The poster was responding with a description of one of the past WoW expansions -- the equivalent to that which you'd like to see, and noted that such misery turned off players in droves, not that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Garlemald? You can enjoy the rebuilding as/when it happens in-game or off-screen. That worked well for years for Blizzard.
Ascians/Ancients? We've received the blessings of both Emet-Selch and Hythlodeus.
Traditional fantasy? Which particular Final Fantasy titles have you been playing that were "traditional" fantasy?
Handicapping the afterlife? Didn't you watch the cut scenes early in the game (post level 50, but still ...) about the movement of souls and the aether of the life stream?
Outer-space lore? We've been to the moon and the edge of the Universe. There may be nothing else, since our favorite bluebird seemed to imply that it was all gone. This game has never been Star Trek:Next Generation, and never will.

What do you expect when he's a little 12 year old kid who lacks reading comprehension. He should read some fantasy novels for preteens to broaden his horizon and improve his comprehension. Or go back to WoW since their idea of storytelling matches what he likes to see.

[Alleo]

Thank you for explaining why those of us who were into Garlemald, Ascians, Ancients, and traditional fantasy sort of locations and themes feel slighted by the way current FFXIV is going. Yoshi bulldozed it all to make room for what? A pale excuse for an FFIV crossover and the permanent handicapping of this game's afterlife and outer space lore?

Genius move. Yoshi really took a page out of Afrasiabi's book and integrated it into the game several times over and in the worst ways possible.

This is a Final Fantasy game. Most of those games have the characters we play as the good guys fighting against the bad guys. Its not the devs problem that you like two of the bad factions in this game. Its quite fine to like villians btw. (Before someone says I said that its bad to do so...) But one also has to accept that they are the enemy and that there is no chance that we somehow join them and destroy the world.

At no point in the many expansions we had, did they hint of that possibility. This is a straight hero story. Always has been.