Quote Originally Posted by T-rexpectation View Post
First time posting on the forums, I just wanted to voice my opinions as a newcomer who beat endwalker last year.

I was randomly reccomended the video for no apparent reason(only really listen to ff14 music sometimes), and i decided to voice my disagreement in the comments. I was rebutted by both the channel's account and some other person who responded to every dessenting voice without fail. I had never expierienced this amount of engagement in a comment section before so I was really fascinated. Turns out I'm 2 years behind on this war the forums have had about Venat. Making 2 videos on other characters and then just making a bunch of Venat videos was bizarre until i realized it was supposed to be a safe space for what was essentially discourse refugees. Some of my favourite stories are incoherent messes, so I didn't really care if someone thought that about endwalker. That said, the really specific focus on Venat from her critics to the point of actively fearing backlash in social media is genuinely concerning to me. Are you guys okay?
I don’t speak for anyone else but i do want to say it’s nice to see someone like you who may not have entirely agreed with our stance be civil and open to debate That’s all we want really. I will say though the amount of discourse and just flat out harassment people not just myself but many others have received over questioning a pretty polarizing character is crazy, especially with how much this games community touts itself as being such a loving and open community. It isn’t just us being dramatic as i know a lot of people may think. But originally there’s been people in threads on here who have thanked us for speaking out about it and being open to them as well so it’s thanks to the creator that they created an actual safe space to speak about it where hopefully they can’t be as harassed as on here or other forms of social media.

I think in the end a lot of this comes down to this being the end of a 10 year long arc where countless players have invested in this games story for years upon years and for the writers to just seem to want to rush through it and not explain many things or even just cover up incoherent plot threads is incredibly agonizing.