Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Kazhar]

I hope next expansion the WOL (and to lesser extent, the Scions) is finally knocked down their pedestal. Show they're not a perfect messiah. Have characters who aren't just obvious strawmens who criticize their actions. Have non-villainous characters who hates them.

Enough with the ego stroking.

[Mimilu]

I hope next expansion the WOL (and to lesser extent, the Scions) is finally knocked down their pedestal. Show they're not a perfect messiah. Have characters who aren't just obvious strawmens who criticize their actions. Have non-villainous characters who hates them.

Enough with the ego stroking.

My hope for the next expansion is that Golbez somewhat succeeds in connecting the Thirteenth with the Source, creating a kind of "only one can survive the merging" situation were both world will have to fight for survival (I'm sure the Scions would try to find a peaceful resolution but ya'know...). Maybe being connected to the aether-rich source will cause the voidsent to revert/semi-revert to their previous forms/memories. With this, we will be the "villian" for an entire other world and there wouldn't be a clear good guy or bad guy, just people fighting for survival. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[NekoMataMata]

I hope next expansion the WOL (and to lesser extent, the Scions) is finally knocked down their pedestal. Show they're not a perfect messiah. Have characters who aren't just obvious strawmens who criticize their actions. Have non-villainous characters who hates them.

Enough with the ego stroking.

That would actually be a really solid plot. Except it sort of happened already to a lesser extent with Garlemald.

The Garlean people never really stopped criticizing the Eorzean factions, and by EW the Garlean people weren't really the antagonists that they had been in the earlier expansions. They were suffering and struggling but they held firm to their beliefs and it was a massive fight to get them to accept any assistance.

Obviously it doesn't have the same impact because they were antagonists at one point, but still.

What you would really want in this situation is a new antagonist, and another separate faction(s), where either those factions like the antagonist or they group the scions + WoL with the antagonist. It just has to feel a bit more genuine than say the Sharlayan Forum disagreeing with the Scions who are supposedly some of the most well known talent to come out of Sharlaya.