Building a better Alphinaud

[aveyond-dreams]

People who have known each other a long time having group conflicts is nonsensical? What? Siblings and even long-term friendships go through turmoil especially the longer it goes on, the only thing nonsensical here is the endless nodding and agreeing with each other. Their arcs are over. They only remain for fanfiction-style writing where nothing of consequence can happen. Under normal circumstances, if an arc is over, writers move the characters out so new and refreshing stories can take place. It is extremely unfortunate that FFXIV is unable to follow suit in this regard.

I completely disagree that getting rid of the white haired and ideologically homogenous scions would turn an enourmous amount of the playerbase off. If the end of ARR is anything to go by, that would only increase everyone's hype for the story once these characters finally exit the stage.

The whole monarchy to republic thing got old after it became their defacto way of wrapping up regions they don't want to deal with - the fact that they've repeated the same old song and dance this many times is a problem. I don't want to be told the same story 4 times in a row. Introducing irl political structures this many times comes across as preaching and it doesn't make for a world I want to spend time in.

I don't play Final Fantasy games because I want to liberate places and turn them into republics. The more and more unique political systems evaporate into thin air as the scions make their way, the less magic there is in this world. Couple that with throwing the Ancients out of the plot and a mountain of evidence that undermines my faith in the future story, this feels like one of the darkest moments in this game's history.