(06-17-2015, 11:18 PM)Mae Wrote: This is something I don't get, either. We have that statement from the Dev saying that literacy is rare... yet we have so many quests where we're passing notes around for people. Or putting up notices/posters. And then there's the actual Moogle Delivery Quests. And the 'newspaper' NPC's that pop up for some events. There's only one NPC (quest out in the Gold Bazaar) that I've ever encountered that, when trying to give them a flyer for work, actually said "I can't read". Everyone else, you give them a piece of paper and they read it.
To me, I think most of the questing you do in that realm (and the roleplaying community in general) involves the educated community, or literate community. It may seem like a crap ton of people, but I mean... in the general scale of things, you're talking about an entire continent. Even two percent of those people = hundreds of thousands.
So if you take that and add to it in the sense of... roleplayers like to feel like their universe is 'lived-in', then what you end up getting is people that RP that they can read, and perhaps write.
Now, I've RP'd with a healthy number of people that can read, but not write. As well as not being able to do both or being crappy at reading/writing or both. I think it is more of what you choose to RP as.
This is just my conjecture and how I see it:
For example, if you RP as a simple farmer on the La Noscean coast, you probably won't be able to read or write. If you RP as a pirate, or a thief, or a mercenary or a drifter or refugee or whatnot, you probably will be able to read or write but not as well as someone who is proficient. (Sign papers with X's and whatever). These people might be poor, and they very well might be the majority of people in Eorzea.
If you RP as a Merchant, you certainly will need to know both (writing ledgers, reading ledgers, doing math when it comes to peddling and keeping inventory, etc.)
If you RP as a Magi, a Scholar, a wealthy person, or an Officer or higher in the military, you probably will need to be able to read and write as well.
Adding to that, anyone that owns a business, works in politics or is middle class and above I'm sure would have to learn how to read and write.
What we might be looking at here is not a situation of them getting things confused, but a situation where the lower class contains the majority, but the majority of society's 'happenings' occur above the lower class. Which would include those quests. Because all those other people are trying to do is basically not starve that day.
Or I could be completely wrong and people got confused about what came in one ear and out the other, lol.
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