How to Restore Confidence in FFXIV

[Kacho_Nacho]

I don't really clamor for all the Scions to be gone, I doubt I'd enjoy that all that much. But is one or two not being there for a quest or two too much to ask? People speak a lot of guff about them not all being present at one time, but at least one or two of them is nearly always present with nearly no breaks. I don't personally feel this way, but I don't blame those who are sick of them. Variety is the spice of life after all, and Zero can only cover so much ground in that regard.

It isn't that I hate them. It's that I feel their individual story arcs are mostly completed, and with the end of the world avoided, I feel continuing with a Scions heavy storyline would just be more of the same thing.

In fact, I think the developers painted themselves in a corner with EW. What can the WoL do to top saving the entire Universe? Suggesting some warlord in the void world is somehow a threat to the person who beat the most powerful threat in all existence is downright silly.

I know it's just a game but there's got to be some logic involved in the storyline.

[Jeeqbit]

I feel continuing with a Scions heavy storyline would just be more of the same thing.

I think so too. They can still be there, retired, but we need a new gang in a new place.

What can the WoL due to top saving the entire Universe?

It's because it's a Final Fantasy game. In Final Fantasy games, you save the world or the universe. This has been what it leads to in any Final Fantasy game I have played. So Yoshi-P feels that he has to match that fantasy and go with whatever will involve saving the world with the most fantasy he can find.

The downside of that is obvious. When they've saved the universe, anything else seems like retirement for the Warrior of Light. Saving a city from a local crime lord and their army? That is actually what the Warrior of Light will do as retirement when they are 80, and they will do it with only one hand blind-folded, just to even the odds.

But it's not as if I haven't started a new story before by playing other games or watching other films, and sometimes the unfamiliar can temporarily be challenging even to the greatest hero until they adapt. So maybe we will find something of lesser threat to be challenging at first, then we'll see how it moves and defeat it. Like everything else. I am certain that will be how they explain it because that is how they explained it in Stormblood. Zenos wouldn't normally be a threat to us, but the resonant was unfamiliar to us so it took us a bit to adapt to it, but then we defeated him like all the rest.