(05-08-2015, 05:33 AM)KitKat Wrote: I'm simply telling you that I'm trying to be openminded and reasonable to -everyone- who is trying to play. You're trying to corner off a section of the playerbase and I feel that is very wrong and doesn't actually have to be like that.
All around acceptance won't happen so long as people are too stubborn to let go of their prejudices. I mean, for Dev's sake, in the video Nako linked, he specifically mentioned that there are 2.5 million warriors of light.
The fighting on these forums clearly indicates that there is no real community. It is full of clusters of people who agree with each other and shun everyone else.
All right, first off I want to take... half a step back, because I was writing that post before I could get to see that video (it was a long post), I had watched it live during the festival and I only remembered the white mage part.
However, it is only half a step, because if 1.0's warriors of light are addressed as plural, I don't see why there should only be one left in ARR. But maybe it's becayse "Warrior of Light" is more a title than a "category of people" in this case. I think I remember the title being given to you at the end of 2.0, so that's probably it. I do believe however that the others who appear in Hydaelyn's Call cutscene have the same powers and duties you were tasked with (I mean.. Hydaelyn WAS talking to all of them after all.. they couldn't be flying there just because, no?)..
Either way, I can very easily say that our decision (of my group) to have multiple people participate in the MSQ (and thus become Warrior of Light) is again a free arbitrary choice just as the one we took with WHM's quests and just as the one a lot of us took in deciding our character is native of Eorzea.
Again it all goes back to "if it doesn't hurt you, there is no point telling someone what they can't do". Maybe it hurts your sensibility, just walk away. It hurts my sensibility to see people RPing kisses or sex or talk of sex, but you don't see me here telling everyone to stahp, do you?
I hope I don't get banned for daring saying this, but trying to impose your rules on people you can just choose not to interact with is not so different from all those people who bash on who doesn't follow their religion, diet, or sexual orientation. I try to look at it this way at least, when I decide my words to use with someone who has different tastes than my own. It helps me open my eyes a lot.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
