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Adelpha · **07-08-2013, 01:31 AM**

(07-08-2013, 12:14 AM)Merri Wrote: snip

Well said; you've elaborated a lot of what I feel about this whole thing as well.

In the end, as far as I'm concerned:

1) The whole "Warriors of Light" thing is an easy out taken by SE so that they don't have to write two sets of dialog for most of the content in the game. They can establish that, as a 1.0 character, you've been "forgotten," and therefore everyone in Eorzea will speak to you as though you're a brand-new adventurer with the same dialog as everyone else (with a few token exceptions). This feels more like a concession to project schedule/budget realities than anything else, and I doubt that SE even really considered what implications that might have for established RP (nor can I necessarily blame them).

2) If we're all to assume that everyone who was teleported was forgotten (in one way or another) by everyone who stayed behind, that potentially ruins so much of the RP interaction that happened during 1.0 for many of us that those people would be left feeling like SE is forcibly throwing their entire IC history in the garbage and leaving them to start over from square one. Understandably, not everyone is OK with that, leaving them to find some workaround for the memory loss thing, or simply to disregard it entirely.

Some players may be totally willing to accept the memory loss and all of the consequences that come with it, and I am absolutely in support of that. However, I am not one of those people. Official lore or not, if it were to come down to having to essentially retcon every memory my character has of time-warped characters (and thus invalidate a whole lot of what I did in 1.0), I'd probably just rather quit RP entirely.