Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I want to ask an important question that I think is being missed in a lot of these things people are saying they're ignoring.

Why? Not why as in 'why this thing specifically', but why as in 'why have you chosen to ignore it', why was that what you chose to do? Is it a functional thing, where you're roleplaying or writing fanworks and this element is too much effort to include or works against what you're going for? Is it a mental health/comfort thing where that part is personally triggering or upsetting enough that it's better to put it out of mind? Something else that's just not occurring to me?

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?
That's a good question. As mentioned, in my case, I ignore the Yorha raids because they make themselves ignorable. So based on that, I would say it's a mix of "I personally don't like the story" and "functional issue", in that I personally don't like the story because it's a functional issue. It doesn't tie into FFXIV in any meaningful way, so there's a very strong sense of "why shouldn't I ignore it?" when it comes to working with FFXIV lore.

Compare to, say, the Ivalice content, which makes itself at home in FFXIV, for better or for worse. I don't personally like the Ivalice content either, but I accept them as part of FFXIV's world, including the retcon about "no non-pureblood Garlean can be a Legatus". So when discussing and speculating about FFXIV, I have to take the Ivalice stuff into consideration, even if I'm personally not that interested in it.

But the Yorha raids, as I often say, can be excised entirely from FFXIV with absolutely no effect on lore before and after. Hence, it is technically a problem of "too much effort" to include for discussions of FFXIV lore, where "too much effort" here means "any effort at all".

I suppose it's a form of frustration: "Why should I care, when it gives me no reason to care?"