Quote Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44 View Post
You can have a good philosophical message without being preachy about it. That's why people are generally alright with a lot of the FF titles that are philosophical in nature.
Yeah, I think a lot of people rightfully roll their eyes when a game gets too preachy and refuses to let the player come to their own conclusions. Particularly when it comes to deeper and more controversial subjects.

I've said it many times before but MMO's in particular attract players from all over the world from many different countries, cultures, personality types, social classes and belief systems.

As such, I think that the core cast should reflect that. I'm Scottish, I've made friends from many different parts of the world during my time playing MMO's. We don't always agree on everything and it's outright bizarre that the writers of this game insist on pushing mutual agreement amongst the core cast at pretty much every turn. That isn't how real, relatable individuals operate.

With a varied cast there's a greater chance that individual players will find a particular character or two that they find agreeable. With a cast that echo one another at almost every turn and eventually 'evolve' to have only surface level differences between them then that is less likely to happen.