(06-17-2015, 03:32 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote:Easiest thing would have just been to introduce Au Ra NPCs a bit more in advance. I doubt SE care what any of you folks think with regard to roleplay acceptance, but it would have at least been more interesting from the perspective of world-building. It's fair to have expected better of them in that regard.(06-17-2015, 02:10 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote: Just because it isn't important to you doesn't mean it isn't important to them. Had Au Ra been here from the beginning, I'm about 99% sure I'd have rolled one to begin with. I bet most people will tell you the same thing. Ultimately it's a personal choice that no one should be harassed or shunned for and I honestly can't believe our community is still making a big deal out if this; it isn't and will never be so please, move on.
Whether it's important to me or not is irrelevant. The fact is, people are engaging in some incredibly silly and implausible explanations for playing races that do not yet exist in-game because they don't have the patience. And I find that... well, silly, of course.
Honestly, this whole topic probably deserves a thread of its own. I will personally avoid RPing anything that I can't at least reasonably represent in-game for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I would be MUCH better served trying to do so in chat rooms or forums rather than in the game itself. It doesn't matter that I REALLY love samurais and katanas or whatever, I just won't do it until they're in the game proper. No hypocrisy here, nopenopenope.
But of course, I have zero control over what other folks want to RP. If that's what rocks your boat, then by all means, have at it! I just won't approve, and how much does that matter to you, really?
(06-17-2015, 03:09 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote: So I'll just see it as "Au Ra have glamour powers, but they stopped having those powers on Friday, June 19th 2015."Â Good enough.
If, going forward, this becomes the normal explanation for race changes, then that's going to become annoying.
I foresee this very thing becoming an issue in the future for any new races as well. I'd rather it be nipped in the bud now before it becomes a recurring feature of the game's RP, but of course, that's not going to happen. People will do as they wish, continuity be damned.
Then again, maybe there will be a Postmoogle quest that explains everything!
People will just have to accept, though, that we aren't going to know everything about the world, and we should be ready to adapt to changes added into the game with either the surprise or knowing acceptance of our characters (whichever is appropriate). Like, how many people would have been a member of the Rogue's guild if they knew it was a thing before 2.4?
If your character has to know everything about unknown lands, and even everything about who or what can exist in Eorzea at present, then you're going to be doing a lot of backtracking and retconning. Welcome to MMOs.
And no, the Quicksand is not the center of the universe, no matter how many people contribute gravity to it.
On topic, it's the avoidance of addressing these unrealistic expectations that has sparked all these weighty discussions about the impact of things like Glamours and Fantasias. Otherwise I imagine they might be more relegated to the occasional stray plot device where they belong.
