Do you think lore helps or hinders?

[myahele]

Lore does hinder PvP due to GC limitations.

Scholars can't explore and make use of the Crystal Tower since G'raha thinks everyone is not technologically advanced ... yet we now have Azsys Lla.

Then there's the whole glamour deal that limits what people can wear when we see plenty of npcs wearing gear that they should not be able to due to their jobs/class

There were also lore-reasons why female Highlander and roegadyns npcs were not available. While male miqo'te kept true to the lore in terms of npc rarity, not sure why how/why female roegadyn/highlanders are everywhere post calamity

[Airget]

Lore does hinder PvP due to GC limitations.

Scholars can't explore and make use of the Crystal Tower since G'raha thinks everyone is not technologically advanced ... yet we now have Azsys Lla.

Then there's the whole glamour deal that limits what people can wear when we see plenty of npcs wearing gear that they should not be able to due to their jobs/class

To be fair, the Crystal Tower excuse leaves the door open to introduce it at a later time when we've reached that lv of tech. Overall, prefer a game with lore than without but in the case of XIV, the reason why the lore influences it so much is because we are still following this singular narrative since 1.0, you could consider this "Tale of the Scions" and until we reach the conclusion of that story we aren't going to branch away from that.

It already sounds like they have plans for 5.0 to be a part of the overarching story but after that we might end up seeing storylines that aren't part of the overall lore and can be part of it's own narrative. Which I honestly look forward to granted we might not see that for 5-6yrs. But it would be interesting to see the world past the Garlean tyranny.

[Belhi]

Lore does hinder PvP due to GC limitations.

Scholars can't explore and make use of the Crystal Tower since G'raha thinks everyone is not technologically advanced ... yet we now have Azsys Lla.

Then there's the whole glamour deal that limits what people can wear when we see plenty of npcs wearing gear that they should not be able to due to their jobs/class

There were also lore-reasons why female Highlander and roegadyns npcs were not available. While male miqo'te kept true to the lore in terms of npc rarity, not sure why how/why female roegadyn/highlanders are everywhere post calamity

To be fair, the Crystal Tower as the centre of Aether production for the Allag empire. As far as potential for miss use its kind of on another level to Azys Lla. Frankly we probably wouldn't let people just walk around Azys Lla either if we could. Regardless, its the Crystal Tower that caused the destruction of Allag, not what came out of Azys Lla.

On the actual thread topic, Lore and story gives context to activities. You collect ten bear asses but its the Lore and Story telling you why your doing it. That makes a difference.

[BubblyBoar]

Lore does hinder PvP due to GC limitations.

Scholars can't explore and make use of the Crystal Tower since G'raha thinks everyone is not technologically advanced ... yet we now have Azsys Lla.

Then there's the whole glamour deal that limits what people can wear when we see plenty of npcs wearing gear that they should not be able to due to their jobs/class

There were also lore-reasons why female Highlander and roegadyns npcs were not available. While male miqo'te kept true to the lore in terms of npc rarity, not sure why how/why female roegadyn/highlanders are everywhere post calamity

Yoshi and team have already said that Lore isn't the reason for GC restritctions for Frontlines.

[SendohJin]

Lore does hinder PvP due to GC limitations.

that can be fixed in 1 day.

Option 1 add a line in where you can represent the GC of your Free Company.
Option 2 take off the 10 day restriction to change GCs and lower the cost to the price of a teleport.

neither of those are lore-breaking. if they want to, they can do so easily, they just don't.