Quote Originally Posted by Eorzean_username View Post
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You just reinforced the point behind

Well, we briefly enjoyed the satisfaction of watching the Scions's usual "let me fix you" attitude fall completely flat, when Magnus basically told Thancred to eff-off. I think that was a solid idea and a good writing decision.

...However, FFXIV could only hold its breath for so long.

And so, 1 hour later, our resident grief-stricken alcoholic spontaneously-combusted into a go-getter leader who's suddenly totally inspired by his wife's legacy, totally "over" his dead child, and now full of vim and vigor for TROLLEYS because we have, once again, shown up and solved everyone's flaws through the power of lecturing them and collecting+delivering a sparkling object.
Unfortunately you're dealing with yet another bad-faith poster who has nothing but smart-ass one-liners. They're here to engage in Twitter style "debate", not an exchange of ideas.

Another major issue with the "hardships" and "inner conflicts" that the Scions have is that we barely see any effects. Saying that Thancred has X or Y issue is not convincing. Showing us the issues that that could cause, such as his alcoholism resulting in someone getting killed or a critical mission failing is better, if not the standard of good storytelling. Sadly, FF14 is not good storytelling since it does not know how to "show, not tell". We do get glimpses of it though, particularly with Alphinaud, but that was 4 expansions ago and most of the inner conflicts are only told to us.