We had the opportunity to interview a member from a popular Final Fantasy 14 Facebook group. We got interesting closure to a developing story from the post they made and nerded out about FFXIV.
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It would hurt me too if I were the OP. 😢 The supposed friends should have been truthful from the beginning
I remember the post and it's definitely something i understand as my friends dont want to play it or tried a bit but never really tried. It sucks but it wont stop me enjoying with my xiv friends
None of my irl friends stuck with the game past ARR, so I can relate.
Hearing someone say FF14 doesn't have dark themes breaks my brain. There are plenty of moments in this game where I was like, whoa.. that's a lil much, how you gonna just put that out there like that with no warning?! Actual shock that they went there, that far, and just smacked this raw emotion on the table and left us to deal with it and figure it out for ourselves. I'm not sure I'll ever have a friend that appreciates FF14 as much as my partner and I do, but Endwalker solved my wanting to unalive myself problem and had me hard swing into wanting to attain immortality so anyone that doesn't give this game a chance, their loss. 😛
I remember being in that boat with my wife. She was big into Runescape for a long time there, so I knew MMOs weren't totally outside her interests, and I kept trying to get her to try FFXIV to no avail. I gave up for a while, but eventually she let it drop her big turnoff was playing mouse and keyboard. I explained that there was a controller option, got her set-up using way too many macros (she's gradually weened off them), and now I have to argue with her about why Alphinaud is a terrible name for a dog (every time you tell people his name they'll say "what was that?", spelling will be a nightmare, you'll always have to explain why you named him that).
p.s. I lost the dog naming argument and we now own an Alphinaud, and all the things I was worried about with that name totally panned out…
Yeah that totally sounds like something “someone that only plays games on Xbox” would say. The only people that can be forgiven for liking Xbox are children because they can’t help what their parents buy for them. Then again, recommending an MMORPG to someone is like offering someone heroin so they can’t help but be cautious.
I just made friends IG 🙂
It's difficult to talk about how dark XIV goes, but one line in particular in the game really gets me so hopefully posting it out of context doesn't spoil much… but… a certain character says:
"death, we learned, isn't truly the end. It's merely a part of the cycle of rebirth. True salvation lies not in death, but in not being born." (said villain delivers that line in quite a calm and relaxed tone of voice, without a hint of malice in the sound of their voice which makes it creepy AF. Like literally everything the villain says in that area is delivered in a soft voice that almost sounds caring if said villain weren't talking about literally ending the whole world and making sure that nothing can live ever again).
Most villains want to just destroy the world or kill everybody. THIS villain wants to go even further than that, and make sure that nobody can be reincarnated, ever again.
I can't think of a darker goal.
FFXIV doesn’t have dark themes…?
Burn out the bad…. Burn out the bad…. Burn out the bad….