Quote Originally Posted by Wired-Lain View Post
But... They can interact with the real world. The entire story is predicated on Cahciua, an endless, leaving via a robot to plot against Sphene. I don't understand why everyones acting like they're just empty replays of old memories when they constantly show that they're sentient and capable of aspiration.
Right. And do you have any idea how many bs plot holes they had to create to do that and just hand wave it with no explanation? The very "totally real person" you are talking about claims the computer intentionally creates events because they think the simulacrum would want them to happen. They also tell you point blank the endless can't leave living memory period, can't taste real food, can't mature past whatever their memories had them at, they clearly can't reproduce, and they no longer have souls. Souls being a very real thing in the world of FF14.

The writing of this expansion is crap. They desperately want you to care about the enless, while also telling you the endless are just computer simulations and not real people. Good writing would have chosen one route and stuck to it, they chose the lazy way of having your cake and eating it too without taking ownership of any of the obvious plot holes this created. In the end cold reality, I turned off a server and the vast majority of the endless vanished. And thus they are not real people, you can't delete real people by turning a computer off. Not even the Omicrons.