The Worst Patch Trailer in FF History?

[Auro_Seldaris]

I'm not sure how to respond to this. I never said Wuk Lamat was good or fine, just that she's a negligible portion of a greater product. Your "I must play FFXIV but I don't want to engage with this piece of it, but I force myself to anyway" situation is entirely self-imposed. If you keep watching Wuk Lamat cutscenes, then you DO voluntarily consume that type of character.

Edit: also, "my video game," good lord. Ain't your video game, ain't my video game. Never will be. It's someone else's video game. We pay them to play it. They can do whatever they want with it. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's not good. Just how it is. You can't let it become a part of your identity as a human being or you end up with, you know...this state of mind.

If I drink Bud Light, that's "my" beer. If I am a fan of the New England Patriots, or Manchester United, that's "my" team. If I like Nissans, that's "my" car. You know precisely what I mean, you're being obtuse about it. First of all, you don't actually know how capitalism works, because once I pay for something, it's mine. Unless you're actually buying the corpo "you don't own nothing" line. It's not a "part of my identity" since I'm not even actively playing or subbed to it anymore, thank you. Even when I was, I have a lot more going on in my life than FFXIV.

As for your silly comment about "Just skip Wuk Lamat lmao" did you miss my point? I mainly play this game for the story. I do occasionally raid, socialize, and craft and such, but my primary focus is on the plot. This isn't p*rn, I'm not going to "fast forward through the plot". We're not talking about Ultimate raids, which I can ignore if I want without effecting the thing I primarily enjoy. We're not talking about Unreal trials, or Blue Mage, and how that's side content I have literally no interest in, but that doesnt effect my enjoyment of the MSQ. How can their insistence on her overbearing presence in the plot be MY fault? Wuk Lamat is forcing me to not engage with the primary element of the game I enjoy, if I do what you suggest. Your "logic" literally makes no sense. "You mainly like the story, so just skip the story lol".

I'm also not solely complaining about Chewtaco the Wukie, as evidenced by my many posts on other aspects of this expansion which I find disappointing. But this is the problem with Wuk... in fact, I'd actually say she was designed with this goal in mind, to immediately invalidate any criticism of the game with "well you just hate Cat with Axe, get over yourself." That was my point in calling her both a lightning rod AND a shield. Any discussion of the plot is invariably going to involve her, and that makes it prime material for people to say "HAVEN'T YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS ENOUGH?! JUST STOP!" and thereby invalidate any other criticism you may have about this game.

As it stands, I'd be willing to accept this as her Final Ride, like all other City Leaders, but if they insist on shoving her into the Scions (as I suspect they do) then I will have lost what little faith I had left in this team.