I'm pretty sure that the Japanese writers are super confused about all this because there are weird nuances about the US that are difficult to understand if you aren't us. When someone in America claims to be "receiving death threats", we all understand that to be a performative thing designed to gain status. It can be good for ones career etc, to make such claims, and it's a competitive market. We kind of take it as read that this isn't a thing that's actually happening. However, worry not, if it *were* actually happening, doing this is illegal. So, the police would actually arrest the person who did it. There are no arrests, because, um, it doesn't actually happen. We in America understand that virtually everything is fake. So, when someone says basically anything, the default internal response if that the person is fabricating whatever they are saying.

Regards, Dawntrail's story, I honestly don't have strong feelings about it either way. There were some cute moments. It was ok.

If I had any complaint about voice acting, it's this...

Some games which have way lower budgets and players and prestige than FF14 do full voice acting. The newer Persona games are fully voice acted, and those things are hundreds of hours long. And, they aren't MMOs! So, I think that SE should fully voice act the story. As it stands, I have to read out all the text parts to my wife because she refuses to read it all. We're paying a sub. I think we deserve full voice acting. I doubt voice actors are that expensive. There are tons of people that I know personally that would and could do voice acting for FF14 and would do it for a song. I bet there are literally millions of such people. So, the fact that it isn't happening just feels very, very low effort. Getting someone to read the dialogue isn't that tough. So, it just feels insulting that it isn't done...as though SE doesn't care enough about their own story to do this very, very quick and easy thing. And, instead, I have to read these lines out to my wife personally!