Building a better Alphinaud

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Endwalker is just one big filler.

What if 6.0 is just a Trailer for 7.0?

[IkaraGreydancer]

Frankly after the disbandment of the Scions at the end of EW...that should have been it. New Adventure means new groups to roam with. But no...less than 5 minutes later it's "Hey we should get the gang back together again".

Delete them all I say. Maybe not Estinien. He keeps it real.

I guessed you missed when he said ",well that will be the official story"...

[Theodric]

I guessed you missed when he said ",well that will be the official story"...

I guess you missed that Renalt acknowledged just that in his post:

But no...less than 5 minutes later it's "Hey we should get the gang back together again".

[Striker44]

I guess you missed that Renalt acknowledged just that in his post:

He didn't miss that. The person he was quoting was complaining about the "let's get the group together again" part of the story, claiming that the disbandment line was real and then acting as if it was promptly ignored. It wasn't. As the person you quoted mentioned, that was just the "official story" while the intention was always the Scions continuing on behind the scenes.

[IkaraGreydancer]

I guess you missed that Renalt acknowledged just that in his post:

Might want to start from the top and actually read. You'd realize there's nothing wrong with what I said as they clearly missed the point that the Scions weren't really disbanding as said multiple times in the game. There was no bait n switch like Renalt makes it sound

[Theodric]

Might want to start from the top and actually read. You'd realize there's nothing wrong with what I said as they clearly missed the point that the Scions weren't really disbanding as said multiple times in the game. There was no bait n switch like Renalt makes it sound

There absolutely was a bait and switch. The Scions were set to disband and that raised the hopes of those of us who wanted them to genuinely take a step back and make way for new characters with more variety and interesting personalities. That the game immediately dashed those hopes less then ten seconds later does not make it any less of a bait and switch.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

There absolutely was a bait and switch. The Scions were set to disband and that raised the hopes of those of us who wanted them to genuinely take a step back and make way for new characters with more variety and interesting personalities. That the game immediately dashed those hopes less then ten seconds later does not make it any less of a bait and switch.

You make it sound like they cant still introduce "new characters with more variety and interesting personalities"
They have done it, several times throughout the games entire history in each expansion. Permanent members? Umm...G'raha, Kryile, Estinian...even Alisae. all 4 of these characters slowly joined the group. So its not like we had only the same members since the beginning....

What happened to you man...?

[Seera1024]

Might want to start from the top and actually read. You'd realize there's nothing wrong with what I said as they clearly missed the point that the Scions weren't really disbanding as said multiple times in the game. There was no bait n switch like Renalt makes it sound

While story wise it wasn't a bait and switch, they could have gone a patch cycle without the scions to sell it to us players since sometimes the patches pick up right after events and sometimes they don't. Or at least keeping it down to the two newest members - G'raha and Estinien. G'raha because we promised adventure and Estinien because he bought the map. Estinien could have been the one hiring adventurers going with the ad for adventurers idea that aveyond proposed and our WoL stumbled into it on pure accident. Once WoL got hired could have extended an offer to G'raha either having Estinien pay G'raha as well or the WoL splitting their share with G'raha. Then you'd just have to make sure at least one other member of the non-scions were a tank or healer to cover the necessary roles since G'raha is an all rounder. Then brought in relevant scions when information came up that would make it worth it for them. Such as once you established we're dealing with cross realm stuff (which was only after the dungeon) bring in Y'shtola given her interest in cross realm travel.

Edit: And that's not even touching if it would be a complete replacement or just a temporary thing for the patch cycle.

[tokinokanatae]

Since when? Citations please?

In this thread alone? Here and here.

[Necrotica]

He died and stayed dead. Gonna just play the game pretending that.