Should goblins be aggressive?

[AdvancedWind]

Pretty sure she was talking about the fact you stated it would go against lore, but ignore that there's already a hostile goblin crew out there then admit there could be more bandit types all the while ending with:

The point he (and others, including me) are trying to make is that goblins are described as an all around peaceful race lore wise, and would make little sense to make them aggressive (which, let's face it, is the point of this thread). Goblins don't have (as far as we know) a primal. They don't attack any city state, they don't sell our secrets to the garleans, they don't cause any trouble and some goblins like mutamix are directly helping us. There's no point in making em agressive by default and doing that would require a complete rewrite of the current goblin lore.

Everyone for it is just riding the XI nostalgia wave and asking for aggresssive goblins. Not more goblin bandits. Not more aggro enemies to "avoid" (IE: Cast sneak) while exploring. More aggro goblins. Yes, most of these people are indeed thinking "Screw the lore, I wanna get killed by gobbies just like when I was trying to explore in XI >:"

That said, doesn't mean that there can't be any aggressive goblins anywhere (and there's at least one such group already), it would be interesting in the same way that adding more friendly Kobolds would be interesting. Heck, make a goblin bandit hideout as a sort of mini stronghold for em. Make some mixed race bandit groups attack the roads. Mix agressive Qiqirns with the La Noscea pirate groups, etc.

But keep the majority of goblins non aggressive, because that's how gobbies are in Eorzea.

[Elexia]

Everyone for it is just riding the XI nostalgia wave and asking for aggresssive goblins.

Some of the first enemies you fought in FF games were goblins so it's not even "XI nostalgia" despite the fact they use the same exact models no one is complaining about. :\

[AdvancedWind]

Some of the first enemies you fought in FF games were goblins so it's not even "XI nostalgia" despite the fact they use the same exact models no one is complaining about. :\

Come on, you know very well that no one is thinking about FFI when they want aggro goblins. No one even cared about the goblins before XI >:

Also, nothing wrong with the goblins having the exact models as XI, it is a nice, iconic look that already serves as an example of well applied nostalgia. But everyone would explode if XIV goblins didn't look like XI goblins.

(btw, FFXIII goblins are ugly as sin, but I digress)