SE: Please tone it down a hair

[Eagleheart]

I'm going to go ahead and link everyone to this thread with 102 likes.

When pondered against the portion of people who purportedly play, and privately purpose to pass up the possibility of purveying their ponderous posings amidst a protruding pyramid of perpetually put-out prattling posters...

That number is not very big.

I applaud your writers and their use of every single page of the Infinity Flux Time Extensive Thesaurus of large words and fancy idioms but I'm begging you.

Please stop.

Pretty much every encounter with the Empire is a pretty good example of over doing it. Cloud an NPC's words in mystery and perhaps some foreshadowing riddles but not a 5 pages soliloquies about the nothingness of still could be happenings of what was once never there. I fancy myself an intelligent creature but trying to decipher every single sentence because it is so overladen with foreign Yoda speak is bringing down my self worth as a thinking man with every syllable.

There is nothing at all difficult about the reading level of XIV. Perhaps you need to bring your reading level up, rather than have the writing fine-tuned to something more appropriate for grade schoolers.

People, take a look at FFT's rewrite. It uses old english but the dialogs are superv. Can you say the same about XIV? Hell no. There are no dialogs in XIV. Just monologs.

Can you picture a FFT character speak as much as a misc inn NPC in uldah? Get real.

One's a single-player RPG with a character who is not only your avatar, but an established personality within the game's setting. Of course it's a dialog.

In XIV, much as in XI, your character is only your avatar, appearing in CS and communicating with gestures and expression, much like Link. Of course it's a monologue.

The two are so wildly dissimilar, I am forced to wonder why you see fit to comment on it at all.