Why is FFXIV using rubber bullets in the wild west?

[Daralii]

I just chalked it up as the characters didn't want to kill anybody.. I know it's hard to consider that.

Duels in the historical Wild West rarely involved actually shooting the other person. The point was to prove superiority, so it was either decided at the draw or after a shot to the ground. There was no need for rubber bullets and it just comes across as stupid.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

I just chalked it up as the characters didn't want to kill anybody.. I know it's hard to consider that.

Then why use a gun?

[Arrius]

It was told this was to settle disputes and that your reputation was based on whenever you can emerge as the winner of them.
This was explained that rep was everything around the frontier towns of Shaaloani. And once you lost face, you can pretty much pack up around there.

This is Koana's corner of development with the ceruleum, so having possibly capable people duel themselves into the grave over petty things would be counter-productive for him.

The rest is just a tacked on parody of the Wild West of the late 19th Century, coming with accent and all.

[Oizen]

Probably trying to sanitize all the rough edges off the game for maximum marketability and greater audience appeal.

Which is odd because you have to go through some seriously fucked up shit in ARR-EW to make it to the Juvenile 4kids-esque Dawntrail

[Garolymar]

Probably trying to sanitize all the rough edges off the game for maximum marketability and greater audience appeal.

Which is odd because you have to go through some seriously fucked up shit in ARR-EW to make it to the Juvenile 4kids-esque Dawntrail

I really hope they don't think they're gonna attract a young audience into a slow mmo that is 70% dialogue. Cater to the people who actually like the game already instead of trying to find an audience that doesn't exist.

[EchoingPulse]

Probably trying to sanitize all the rough edges off the game for maximum marketability and greater audience appeal.

Which is odd because you have to go through some seriously fucked up shit in ARR-EW to make it to the Juvenile 4kids-esque Dawntrail

Isn't Final Fantasy rated 18+? It has some spicy suggestive themes, death, and all manner of dark nonsense.

[Router]

Dawntrail reeks of corporate sanitation, so I'm glad it's being critically panned for this kind of dumb shit. It felt like the writers were held at gunpoint (with actual bullets) the entire expac to keep things PG. Let the writers write!

[CaptainLagbeard]

I think they said they use rubber bullets for duels.

I guess they don't want to have a duel to the death.

[GTK0HLK]

For the ..,

Out of all the things that went wrong in the overall reception.

Trying not to kill the Crooked Cop, and keep the law of the land. (as much as possible. and hope the actual head guy will be lenient on him firing anything in town. which it was.)

That was the thing that didn't sit right, or outright triggered some of yall?

People expecting KO animations to signify death like it's PvP, or haven't been holmganged before/enough. (not taking it seriously)

Sides, killing the crooked cop would do worse for the intent and image. More so when they're partly trying to clear their friends names.

[And the main law enforcement guy would of been forced to throw the book at both of them rather than the guy who is being dealt with.]


The actual out of place thing would be how dumb the crooked cop was in the end.
Anyone else would be suspect that the goody good "vigilantee/duelists" they took over and kicked to the curb would actually "go do crime". Suspicious as F.

[Course that's ignored cause it's an actual part that wouldn't make sense for someone who was supposedly so schemey. yet apparently also dumb.]


Sometimes I wonder if yall are getting to much into the juice that you start seeing Boogeyman in everything. Just like how I felt about Smiles poor placement.