Still leaves more wiggle-room for people to have quit / been honourably discharged due to injury / etc in the wake of the Final Chorus - it means it's possible for people to have been actively serving dragoons, just that they now have to find a way for their story to make it so they aren't any longer.
The reason I'm so un-fond of this decision is because a couple of my good friends are faced with the decision of either:
a) flat out going against the lore, which they've tried very hard to adhere to up 'til now, from here on out; or,
b) retconning every piece of RP they've done about their character being a dragoon... which is most of what they've done in the last 2 years. In other words, scrap the character, notify all the character's friends that they never existed, and reroll them. I'm not talking about people whose characters have a dragoon job "because they think it's cool" (I'm sure these people exist, but I've not met any) - I'm talking about people whose character's central identity is being Ishgardian, being a dragoon, and serving Ishgard by being a dragoon.
At least if there's 300 and not 30, there's a tiny bit more room for there to be no need for retcons in people's RP - just changes going forward. It's much more workable from an RP continuity standpoint.
The reason I'm so un-fond of this decision is because a couple of my good friends are faced with the decision of either:
a) flat out going against the lore, which they've tried very hard to adhere to up 'til now, from here on out; or,
b) retconning every piece of RP they've done about their character being a dragoon... which is most of what they've done in the last 2 years. In other words, scrap the character, notify all the character's friends that they never existed, and reroll them. I'm not talking about people whose characters have a dragoon job "because they think it's cool" (I'm sure these people exist, but I've not met any) - I'm talking about people whose character's central identity is being Ishgardian, being a dragoon, and serving Ishgard by being a dragoon.
At least if there's 300 and not 30, there's a tiny bit more room for there to be no need for retcons in people's RP - just changes going forward. It's much more workable from an RP continuity standpoint.