I think Man should play for the joy of it.
To live, to eat to breed, lesser beasts snap and howl at one another for this.
Only man has the wisdom and the clarity to embrace games for its own sake.
For we who are born into this merciless, meaningless world, have but one candle
It’s 2026, we are gonna be 6 expansions deep into FFXIV soon. Can we stop with the weird gatekeepy behavior if someone doesn’t want to play through 250 hours of story to be able to play some of the best MMO raid encounters ever made?
Heaven forbid someone asks you a small lore question if they start getting interested in the story after starting the game 10 years late. Are we really gonna keep driving people away with this weird NIMBY ritual? Just use your social skills (lol) and answer the small question, suggest they start a story alt on their downtime, or direct them to a synopsis video on YouTube.
Crying about “story skippers” this deep into a game’s development cycle is peak cringe. If they set up a skip to Dawntrail for new characters to jump into the new story arc I and many others feel like it would be beneficial for the game’s long term health. While the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is great storytelling it’s also not a sacred cow for people to clutch pearls over.
At the end of the day, it’s a game to be played. We’re all better than this and should start acting like it.
Let me see...
New baddie has an ominous prediction (nature's proclamation) and has a "living teddy" with her.
We are going back to Garlemald that pollutes.
Long-haired evil prince, who is descendant of an ancient, and who's mother we don't know about.
Did I miss anything?
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