"May Contain Spoilers" SAVE HILDIBRAND!

[Shorty_Mcswag]

At this point Hildibrand has become such a huge figure in the FFXIV community that excluding him from 3.0 would be like forgetting to add the new classes and jobs.
Hell, he's even featured(and evolving hats?) in the FFXIV reddit page!!!
Hildibrand for president!

[myahele]

he litterally went heavensward with that sword...unless this happened

[Kinseykinz]

I agree with Ashkendor. The fallacy is not with the amount of likes contradicting what people really feel. You have to look at the medium being used to collect that data.


Hating on Justin Bieber is the in thing to do, but clearly there are people who actually like him, and a considerable amount. It's become a stereotype, of sorts, to criticize young pop artists. But Hildibrand doesn't have that same stigma about him. All feedback points to the hate on him clearly being a minority response.

No seriously, Hildibrand IS the Justin Bieber of FFXIV content, cheap, stupidly popular for reasons my adult (classically trained in music btw) brain can't fathom. It's a beyond stupid questline. I have literally hated every moment of it. But unlike 'Bieber Fever' I don't really have a choice to avoid Hildy without making my game play harder. I need to complete the storylines in order to access my daily roulettes fully. I don't HAVE to listen to the Beibs to enjoy music as I see fit.

I don't care that he stays, goes, dies, morphs into a butterfly (Hildy or the Biebs). If people like this very stupid story, more power to them...but don't force it on the entire playerbase. Make it like the Moogle delivery sideline, updated every patch, but doesn't effect anyone's game play who chooses to avoid it.

[Stumpedify]

But unlike 'Bieber Fever' I don't really have a choice to avoid Hildy without making my game play harder. I need to complete the storylines in order to access my daily roulettes fully. I don't HAVE to listen to the Beibs to enjoy music as I see fit.

I don't care that he stays, goes, dies, morphs into a butterfly (Hildy or the Biebs). If people like this very stupid story, more power to them...but don't force it on the entire playerbase. Make it like the Moogle delivery sideline, updated every patch, but doesn't effect anyone's game play who chooses to avoid it.

I do actually agree that the trial roulette shouldn't be locked by hildibrand content. They didn't put odin on the trial roulette, so they don't need to put the hildibrand trials on there either. I have no argument with that, but that's a completely separate issue to the point of this thread. If the petition was to separate trial roulette from hildibrand quest line I would sign it without second thought.

[Kukajoo]

i wholeheartedly agree! i just finished the hildy line myself and i would be extremely disheartened if that were to be the last of it

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Hildy actually makes me laugh. Beiber doesn't. THe two do not compare.

[Elusana_Celah]

So from what I gather is: People who hate Hilde do so because SE forces them to do the questline to unlock the trial roulette. Solution? Allow the trial roulette to unlock without having the Hilde trials unlocked. This way we can stop listening to the hate being spewed by these people.

Plus I laugh at the "I'm an intellectual and far above the STUPID humor of this questline" people. I also consider myself an intellectual and I love this questline and it has provided me with many laughs. Just because you don't like Hilde doesn't make you intellectually superior to other people, please stop lol.

[Nyasha]

I also laugh at that. I mean, really?

I just replayed the Hildibrand questline on my alt (I could be a fangirl and tl;dr about it...) and there is some really good storytelling there, and the humor might not be up to everyone's par. Like Family Guy tons of people love it- I hate it, but people still find it entertaining.

But then again, I have noticed the two camps of people in this debate are 'How about we just get rid of the Hildy trials from the Trial Roulette so everyone would be happy?' and 'GET RID OF HIM FULLY.' I sit in camp one as a Hildy fan.

[Velox]

No seriously, Hildibrand IS the Justin Bieber of FFXIV content, cheap, stupidly popular for reasons my adult (classically trained in music btw) brain can't fathom.

Hildibrand is more akin to the Three Stooges than Justin Bieber. And a lot of adults loved the Three Stooges in their time (which was LOOOONG before Bieber existed). Slapstick is just another form of comedy. It is no better nor worse than any other, just an alternative. Some people laugh at sitcoms, some people laugh at stand-up, and some people laugh at slapstick.

And just to let you know, I too am classically trained in music.

[Ashkendor]

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I'm an adult. I play classical piano and guitar. I find Hildibrand hilarious, though I can see why some may not find it amusing. The trials are a lot of fun, if a bit gimmicky (I'm looking at you, Dragon's Neck). I do agree with you that the trial roulette shouldn't be gated behind the Hildibrand quests, though.