Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
This. The simple reality is that the Scions are hugely popular among the fanbase at large, minus the dozen or so utterly bitter, sad, negative dregs around here that hate everything about the game, anyway, and can't stand that other people enjoy it. Final Fantasy has never been Game of Thrones. People by and large play this game to relax, have fun, and enjoy a good story with characters they know and like without wondering who's going to be offed next. New adventures with old friends, mixed with introducing a few new characters (a la Zero) is the way I hope they go.
There's a lot of issues with this.

The Scions aren't super diverse. No one wants to force anything, but all of these characters have similar backgrounds and they have also known each other for far too long at this point. It really puts a damper on story building. Most of the Scions write themselves at this point, and not even in a good way.

Then there's the story constantly teasing their deaths. The writers toy with the audience in the same way over and over again to the point where most people get tired of the same plot device and learn when to expect it.

Also, the Scions do have nice individual interests, but for some reason they won't let any of them develop. This makes them much more blander and is another reason why they have become predictable characters that write themselves. This also makes it difficult to move the characters on in other directions.

We don't need to remove characters game of thrones style, but we do need to be able to control the size of the cast some, and these issues don't help.