(05-13-2015, 12:20 PM)Daitokuji Wrote: Â NPCs are presumably a tiny, tiny fraction of the population. Â This makes drawing conclusions challenging.I assume you actually meant 'PCs' and not 'NPCs' here, or else you're stating the exact opposite of what is intended by the developers.
(05-13-2015, 01:04 PM)Hammersmith Wrote: A similar point is that a majority of the Eorzian population is completely unseen and unrepresented. Â Hundreds/thousands of farmers, laborers, miners, etc etc and other people who are simply handwaved to exist and supply the areas we as players run in.Exactly this. Just because you SEE a lot more PCs than NPCs doesn't mean that that is what the reality is supposed to be within the fictional universe.
In Eorzea's "reality", PCs are supposed to be the .1%, the elite of the elite, the exceptions to all the rules. Obviously, the game can't actually represent this because rendering out enormous, several-square-KM size cities with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants is pretty much technically impossible and also bad from a game design sense. Maybe some day in the distant future we will actually be able to do something like that... but not today. As such, a certain level of separation from gameplay and story is absolutely required.
