Quote Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44 View Post
There are probably also some people who won't be happy unless everything is childish, bright, and simple to the point of insulting our intelligence.

I've never understood why the desire to leave one extreme is always interpreted as a desire to sprint towards the other. Someone wanting the story to be competent and logical does not mean they want the story to be grimdark. (although those are not necessarily mutually exclusive, some people might genuinely want that as well) Right now, the story is definitely leaning towards one extreme, that being the extremely safe, simple, and childish side of the storytelling spectrum. A good balance between the two is the best place to be, and we need some seriousness to balance out the silliness.
Not sure about that when half the playerbase still think there are good guys and bad guys regarding the end of the Ancients, and so on. FFXIV's story is not extremely safe, simple and childish, it just doesn't appeal to some of the playerbase, that resort to using that argument instead of "I just don't like this". I'm not saying it's a masterpiece either, it's just... what you can expect from a "standard" video game. There are way poorer narratives that are praised by people, way better narratives that are despised... It's just average, and it doesn't really need to be deeper.

Except if you're talking about loporrits, which are meant to be a breather in an otherwise darker expansion that what we had until now (except for HW, which tried hard to be grim, but where writers constantly backed off after each patch because they didn't want to be too dark I guess), and beast tribes, which... always have been dumb.

Really, I do think you're all way too invested in the game, if you really think it's that big of a deal.