Quote Originally Posted by McGrump View Post
Scions
Their arch is done and we're supposed to be dissolved, can we just move on and get a fresh crew? Are you seriously telling me that there's no one else in the world that can be as competent as them? It's like they're so afraid to let them go that the dissolvement feels so hallow and inconsequential. At some point, I even said out loud "NO" when Y'shtola mentioned the "unofficial reunion" in her dialogue. It's like they can't commit to their creative decision.
Two things:

1) There is no creative decision to replace scions with a different crew. The devs never planned to take the scions out. The disbanding thing was nothing... just some nonsense that makes scions no longer scions politically. Just a second after the line is said, we get told that the scions aren't going anywhere at all, they'll just be cautious about meeting up together as a visible group. This is once again made clear throughout the Endwalker patches, we continue to work with the scions like nothing happened. For all intents and purposes nothing happened. (Why was the whole "scions disband" thing written in the first place? I have no idea whatsoever...)

2) Writers clearly lost the plot when it comes to character writing. Ignoring new characters from this expansion, the old characters that came along with us are just shadows of their former selves. They lack the few traits they even possessed in the first place. Alisaie doesn't act like Alisaie. Alphinaud doesn't act like Alphinaud. Etc. Things like character development do not happen in this expansion, the writers just aren't able to write that sort of thing apparently. And that's despite the absurdly heavy handed attempts they make. I am reminded of the way Zero's character development went. We just repeat the word "friend" 50 times and feed her until she says "yay, I'm a good person now!" Are these RPG characters or damn Furbies?

So a big problem is that: sure, the writers could come up with a million other new fursonas. Or god forbid, they could dig out some old and great characters like Gaius. But unless whoever is currently writing gets taught how characterization works and what makes some characters more compelling than others... Nothing good will come of it. The last thing I want is for some of my favorite characters to get absolutely butchered. I will not survive Gaius going on and on about the power of friendship, blushing and god knows what else.