Quote Originally Posted by SassyAssassin View Post
I really can’t understand who thought that story was a good idea…when Alisae started shouting (again) and crying I was just like “dude you’ll be back in the next cutscene what are you yelling about”…
It really feels as if they must think ffxiv players are that stupid to believe they kill all the scions at once.
When Thancred was gone I actually got emotional but after that I just had a dead eyed “seriously bro” face until the end of the story.
In all seriousness, go around the internet. Check out YT. Check out Reddit (of all places). A ton of people loved the story. Yes, we "knew" the Scions were coming back. That doesn't stop you from RP'ing in an RPG (I know, what a concept!). Knowing that the "good guys will win" doesn't mean nobody has any investment in a story. Practically every blockbuster movie in existence has a script where you know the protagonists will survive and be the victors; that doesn't stop people from loving the story. Heck, it can even help people who get really into a story keep going sometimes.

After Estinien it got kind of comical, and then they started playing the music too!
That music has become one of the most popular pieces in the entire game. Check out the vid on YT where 1,000 people sent in videos that were edited together to make a fan-made version of the song. It wasn't "comical" to most people - it was deep, and made a real impact.

That argument feels a lot like when my friend tried to get me into a lot of games now a days. "Oh, don't worry about the beginning, the game gets good around the 40 hour mark!", why would I slog through 40 hours of the boring part just to get to the part that might make me go "Oh cool, that's neat." lol
While I personally enjoyed even that beginning part, when a game has several hundred hours of content, I'd have no problem going through a smaller "boring" part at the beginning to then have many times over that amount in amazing gameplay that just keeps getting better...

I can't for the life of me figure out why all of them survived. I can understand SE not wanting to kill every Scion, since some players do indeed like them quite a bit, but at least one or two of them should probably have stayed dead.
You answered your own question. All of the Scions at this point are quite popular with the general playerbase. Killing a character off for the sake of killing a character off would serve only to seriously alienate fans of that character. TV history is littered with the remains of shows that went downhill when they lost an important character (either written off, changed actors/actresses, etc.). The number of people who would be "pleased" by the death of a Scion pales completely in comparison to the number of people who would be turned off by it.