Thematic issues. Why all the sci fi.

[VeyaAkemi]

And I understand the argument that if we have all this tech, why are some city states still using medieval ships? Why do people in them dress like middle ages peasants?

1. Garlemald was literally at war with the rest of the world until very recently, and therefor unwilling to share their technology.

2. Allagan tech is poorly understood by the everyman and generally (justifiably) seen as dangerous.

3. Nier raids literally exist in another reality(well, shard), they are also crossover stuff so it's questionable how much it should count.

4. Sharlayan was isolationist until very recently.

5 Alexandria was literally another reality(shard) until extremely recently.

6. Time bubble bullshit preventing things from dots 1, 4 and 5 from changing the world in meaningful ways.

I really feel half the complaints here are caused by the time bubble, an idea they decided onto over 10 years ago and it gets dumber and dumber the more is added to the world.

Even if you ignore Alexandria and electrope specifically, I find the mix of classical fantasy and modern/sci-fi in FFXIV a bit off. The fact that you can have a knight in a suit of armour and a catgirl in streetwear standing next to each other makes the game feel pretty aesthetically inconsistent.

To me the big thing is that glamour exists as a lore thing, that alone justifies so much of what are aesthetic inconsistencies, the knight in a suit of armor and the catgirl in streetwear could be wearing the exact same equipment as far as we know, but they have vastly different aesthetic tastes, so they choose to use the common illusion magic of the setting to express themselves in very different ways, and for that, both sides only need to exist in the setting.

It's also why glam limitations per job are incredibly stupid even in lore, glamour is literally illusion magic, there should be nothing stopping anyone from casting the image of anything over anything else.