/r/ffxivdiscussion: Has FFXIV had any major retcons or plot holes in the story?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

I don't understand the aversion to survival of the fittest. Yes, that's generally how things work, especially when you want them to continue onward. It isn't about being perfect in every way, it's about being best suited to the environment. We don't exactly know why Venat overcame her foe, but she was the victor nonetheless so it does follow that she would be the steward of this new era of humanity.

Maybe the real issue people have with the story is that Zodiark was not said fittest despite, as far as I know, the fight being completely fair and open to either side to win.

This right here is my issue. "What's wrong with survival of the fittest."

The morals of Endwalker corrupts the morals of its playerbase. If you don't understand why it's wrong to wipe out a people and replace it with a "superior" people, then maybe FF14 should stop trying to teach morality as they are doing a terrible job at it.

And I don't know how many ways my issue is the game putting a positive spin on murdering innocent people and not that I want "my guy to win." I get Venat has to win for the game to happen, but they could have either made it a mistake, her doing it without knowing all the suffering she'd cause, or made her evil. But they had her do it on purpose, with full knowledge of all the suffering she'd cause and she's painted as heroic. WUT?!

Also, if we were supposed to learn from this that survival of the fittest is correct, why were the Omnicron a dead end? They handled to Sundering so poorly that you can't even finish EW before you hit several contradictions. "The universe may end, and all may be for naught, but I will live as I always have." Unless you're an Ancient, then eat sword.

ETA: BTW, "fittest" in this context is a single person deciding to kill them to make us. I'm sure had the Ancients been informed their continued survival required winning a personality contest, they would have put on a more impressive show.

ETA2: Also, 'survival of the fittest' refers to beings surviving in an environment due to being more suited for it. The Sundered are not more fit to take a sword to the face than the Ancients were. The Sundered...well, I was about to say they weren't killed, but Venat actually set up seven worlds worth of Sundered to be killed and two worlds' worth to be driven to the brink, so I guess I'll have to clarify and say the difference is the Sundered weren't wiped out entirely. And again, I stress, this was due to the decision of a single person and not due to anything superior about our biology.