Why is FFXIV using rubber bullets in the wild west?

[Daralii]

I agree this area felt like a soy version of what it could have been, the main appeal of the wild west when it come to a societal approach is its brutal, unruly, corrupted nature which sadly wasn't depicted well (if at all) in FF14.

Wild west ? More like ... tamed west ! :3

Now rant aside it does make sense when you think about the fact that this conquest of the wild has been initiated and lead by Kkona who absolutely would think about creating laws/rules to solve minor conflict without having anyone harmed.

Still it sucked and felt weird.

It was also kind of a retcon since the BLU quests talked about Ul'dahn ceruleum barons basically treating the local tribes as slave labor. A lot of the preexisting worldbuilding about the New World feels like it was discarded, probably because it in part mirrored real history.