Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Thank you for your opinion. Under normal circumstances I would’ve liked to dive deeper and ask what specifically didn’t work for you and how I could improve on it, but given how many FFXIV players gleefully ate up a convoluted time travel story with the anime little girl of ultimate despair, I have good reason to dismiss your counsel outright.

I know what works for me in terms of storytelling, and I was considerably gracious in not eliminating the scions outright and even reusing some of the worst characters in the entire Final Fantasy franchise in better ways, such as Meteion and Hermes. In any case now we have people arguing in defense of the most ridiculous round of beast tribe quests yet, so I can safely say that those with such childish tastes will certainly never align with my own.

Thank goodness FFXVI, in spite of Yoshi’s involvement, seems to be shaping up to a more mature game. Unlike here, he couldn’t ruin that game like he did FFXIV as his “playground” subjecting all of us to his ever-changing whims. Or perhaps his passion truly lies there and that is why he appears so confounded whenever he has to answer lore questions about FFXIV. If so, perhaps it’s time for him to pass the torch to someone who cares more and continue pursuing whatever it is he’s most passionate about.
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C.S.Lewis

That was also the problem with your writing. It was teenager edgy stuff. You seem to think that a dark story means a good story but a dark story without a good reason behind it is just bad. And when we get to your cringey portrail of Venat where you bent over backwards to throw aside all her background just to turn her into some Scooby Doo villain. Yeah. Not good.
So you see, maybe the problem isn't that we are childish and wrong. Maybe some of us lived more then you, read more then you, understand more then you. And maybe, while we can agree that FFXIV is not some masterpiece of storytelling your version is actually much much worse. Like I'm sure there are Twilight fanfiction pieces that are miles better. You get it now?