What lore do you ignore?

[Lurina]

I ask because I think a lot of people are just using this thread to air 'lore/story I don't like', and that... doesn't sound right. Sure, a game you like did a thing you don't; are you really ignoring that, or are you just here to passive-aggressively say they shouldn't have? And if you are ignoring it solely because you don't like it, is that how you handle any media doing the same? Are you trying to create some perfect internal FFXIV rather than accepting that it may have flaws or disagree with you?

FFXIV is not just a story. With a book or show, if you don't like what it's doing, there's absolutely no reason other than sunk cost fallacy to not just drop it like a hot rock - the plot is all it has going for it. With a game, though, it becomes complicated because you can hate something about the writing enough that you'd be done under normal circumstances and still have a stronger motivation for staying. Maybe all your friends are playing it and quitting means not getting to socialize with them as much. Maybe you're really into some specific gameplay niche like savage raiding, or a social one like roleplay. Maybe you just really like Triple Triad.

In a situation like that, sometimes the only thing you can really do to keep enjoying the part you enjoy without experiencing cognitive dissonance is to blot you don't like out of your mind. (Again, this is only for stuff that would normally be so overwhelmingly offputting you'd wanna quit. For smaller complaints it's easy to just accept the game isn't perfect - probably people who say "ignore" in that sense just mean "dismiss")

To use your example, I would normally throw a story that used sexual assault as a throwaway plot point in the midst of an otherwise light-hearted, fun story out the window, but because I like the rest of it enough, I try to block it out of my mind.