What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[EaraGrace]

I dont think its at least that big of a derailment in this thread, since one of the things i brought up is peoples opinions on the story. No reason to be snarky though.

Snark is all I have left for these discussions Kizuya. They are neither productive nor honest. If you want to make another thread complaining about the story then do so, but derailing you’re own thread to whine more is obnoxious.

[Jin-]

That makes two of us

Three of us minus the man hug part

[BrokentoothMarch]

Wow another thread consumed by the same tired arguments. Surely this time will be different.

Wow, another post being sarcastic and condescending while contributing nothing to the thread. How original.

Yes, I see the irony.

[kpxmanifesto]

This is why you never touch time travel. It fucks everything up because so few people can write it well.

Yep. It's difficult to write about and takes a lot of work because there's a need to address an altered future timeline or an alternate timeline. SE avoided that in a very lame fashion IMO by having a plot device that conveniently wipes memories. Very low effort resolution on SE's part.

[kpxmanifesto]

Wow, another post being sarcastic and condescending while contributing nothing to the thread. How original.

Yes, I see the irony.

No need to feed the trolls. The one you're responding to is particularly easy to tune out.

[EaraGrace]

Wow, another post being sarcastic and condescending while contributing nothing to the thread. How original.

Yes, I see the irony.

I’d love to have a another discussion on whether what Hydaelyn did was right or wrong in either the lore forum (which was made for that purpose) or in a thread made for that purpose.

Until then condescension ahoy

No need to feed the trolls. The one you're responding to is particularly easy to tune out.

Unfortunately tuning you all out would require deleting the forums in their entirety, given how loathe you all are to not swallow every discussion with this same topic.

[BrokentoothMarch]

I’d love to have a another discussion on whether what Hydaelyn did was right or wrong in either the lore forum (which was made for that purpose) or in a thread made for that purpose.

Until then condescension ahoy

Oh wow. I'm so sorry. I didn't realize someone broke into your house, put a gun to your head, and mashed your face into this thread. It must be a terrifying affair. Please hold still while I call the police so they prepare to save you with blankets and coco for the atrocious burden you're suffering for seeing a few posts you don't like in a thread you clearly didn't choose to partake in. I'll be following advice and tuning you out. You really are a special kind of useless.

I'm even the one who pushed to move on from the lore. Everyone was acting quite civil then you decided to pick a fight. And yet you want to play the martyr.

[EaraGrace]

Oh wow. I'm so sorry. I didn't realize someone broke into your house, put a gun to your head, and mashed your face into this thread. It must be a terrifying affair. Please hold still while I call the police so they prepare to save you with blankets and coco for the atrocious burden you're suffering for seeing a few posts you don't like in a thread you cllearly didn't choose to partake in. I'll be following advice and tuning you out. You really are a special kind of useless.

Even as useless as I may be I still at the very least have a unique thought every once in a while. Meanwhile these threads make the Omicron look downright creative.

I'm even the one who pushed to move on from the lore. Everyone was acting quite civil then you decided to pick a fight. And yet you want to play the martyr.

Then why are you arguing against me. We agree! Move on!

[Atelier-Bagur]

There was to be a 3rd sacrifice yes, but that was it. Hythlodaeus himself tells us after they would return to their duties as stewards of the star. The cutscene in Endwalker is actually Venat’s pov which is very inconsistent with all the lore we have been told. It also doesn’t seem to mention her followers of whom yoshi confirmed she completely consumed the souls of and basically destroyed them. Her whole overall idea isn’t even so much that she has a problem with the sacrifices, so much so that she doesn’t believe her people have the power to combat meteion. This is shown in the anamnesis cutscene where she even says she doesn’t see Zodiark as a long lasting solution.

I think overall, my problem with her, is that she had the knowledge to potentially avert the calamity but she instead tries to paint the ancients as wrong for simply…being human. She then lies,manipulates, and keeps all that knowledge hidden and is praised as a hero? It just doesn’t sit well with me. Even worse is Elidibus and Zodiark, two of the people who saved both us and the entire world and even made venat’s plan succeed in the first place, are given hardly any praise whatsoever.

How did Elidibus and Zodiark saved us exactly? You mean when Zodiark averted the 1st Final Days? I suppose so yeah, but their long lasting solution for sacrificing and trying to salvage the old world wasnt gonna help the star lasting very long, especially when we saw the cracks of their "paradise" eventually leading to the same outcome as the people's from the 3rd area in the Dead Ends. It was a debate amongst gods pretty much and this is where whether Venat was in the right to sunder the world or not ends for me as we now have 13 shards filled with life and civilization. Elidibus and the Ascians wanted to extinguish all life from the 13 shards to try to resurrect their failed world and that to me is extremely irresponsible and unfair to the new life that now flourishes in those shards.

Even then the story later painted the unsundered Ascians in less of a negative light anyway, I mean just see how much praise we get for Emet-Selch despite the fact that he contributed to a lot of genocide with his buddies. Its easier to antagonize a group of people actively trying to kill you.

[Theodric]

Unfortunately tuning you all out would require deleting the forums in their entirety, given how loathe you all are to not swallow every discussion with this same topic.

Who would be part of this hypothetical 'all', exactly? I simply ask because it isn't the first time I've seen an insinuation of some hypothetical group existing to discuss the same topic across multiple threads.

Furthermore, just because a particular discussion may have become tiresome for you it doesn't necessarily mean that everybody else has to feel the same way - or that they're wrong or posting in bad faith for...pointing out their concerns with the quality of the writing surrounding Venat.

I also have to raise an eyebrow at anyone who frequents the lore forum taking issue with repetition when a not insignificant number of Venat enthusiasts spent years derailing threads and attacking people for liking either the Garleans or the Ascians.

I can personally attest to many attempts to simply take the 'agree to disagree' approach with various posters, yourself included. If you do not wish to engage with particular posters, then that's your right - but I must confess to not seeing much benefit in fly by comments every time someone brings up Venat and calls her out for the horrific genocide that she inflicted on so many innocents.