How attached are you to your OC?

[*Logan*]

I just recently did the dark knight level 50 main quest and ended up crying a bit...it was a rather emotional situation. Without giving too much away it was an unexpected to me how that played out and honestly was hard to even start attacking.

This brings us to the topic, just how attached are you to your OC?

It's quite clear to me now that I really care about my creation and I am curious how many else of you have strong feelings for your OC as well.

OC = Original Character

[Sel Und Irae]

My OC Canonically died at end of Endwalker in my story & the dawntrail character is just some random adventurer.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2987244296


I made a new (blank slate) character for Dawntrail and handleveled it while skipping story just to experience dawntrail. Finished him just in time for the expansion launch.

That being said, I've seen some of those Female Au'ra OC floating around out there . . All i'll say is i will destroy this entire franchise and their supporters if you touch my Half Dragon Waifus.

[Jee Em]

Well - since I disliked most of EW - my character is in a coma and everything she experienced after the bodyswap is a feverdream which she can't wake up from.

[Vlad Krapula]

What the actual ♥♥♥♥

[Sel Und Irae]

Originally posted by Jee Em:

Well - since I disliked most of EW - my character is in a coma and everything she experienced after the bodyswap is a feverdream which she can't wake up from.

The only proper response aside from dying tbh.

I'm still of opinion they should tsukiyomi it and say "Everything was a dream, Glimpses of a future potential future shown by the light or just a fever dream / what your character wanted" Then awaken people in Novrandt.

Start next patch with the world around you distorting and hearing voices that arent there, Then while you have a chat with Wuk Bad character lamat you notice Hydaelyn in the background and go over to investigate, When you get to where she was nobody is there then when you turn around everything is gone.

Insert Hydaelyn, Explaining that she finally broke through to you and that everything was a dream.

Then rest of expansion is trying to find a way back to your own world, Involves visiting all the reflections including the one with the berserker & the necromancer.

Instantly fix all the damage done by Endwalker & Dawntrail.

If Square Enix was Intelligent they'd retcon EW & DT A LOT of people myself included concluded their story at Endwalker and everything post Endwalker is a fantasy / fever dream.

Any further push with Lamat will be me requesting steam remove this product from my account.

[*Logan*]

Not quite the answers I was expecting so far.
I have heard of this though, retiring your character.

Logging into a game you spent hours on and finally laying yourself to rest.

I'm not ready for that personally.

[*Logan*]

Originally posted by Sel Und Irae:

Originally posted by Jee Em:

Well - since I disliked most of EW - my character is in a coma and everything she experienced after the bodyswap is a feverdream which she can't wake up from.

The only proper response aside from dying tbh.

I'm still of opinion they should tsukiyomi it and say "Everything was a dream, Glimpses of a future potential future shown by the light or just a fever dream / what your character wanted" Then awaken people in Novrandt.

Start next patch with the world around you distorting and hearing voices that arent there, Then while you have a chat with Wuk Bad character lamat you notice Hydaelyn in the background and go over to investigate, When you get to where she was nobody is there then when you turn around everything is gone.

Insert Hydaelyn, Explaining that she finally broke through to you and that everything was a dream.

Then rest of expansion is trying to find a way back to your own world, Involves visiting all the reflections including the one with the berserker & the necromancer.

Instantly fix all the damage done by Endwalker & Dawntrail.

If Square Enix was Intelligent they'd retcon EW & DT A LOT of people myself included concluded their story at Endwalker and everything post Endwalker is a fantasy / fever dream.

Any further push with Lamat will be me requesting steam remove this product from my account.

Kinda agree about ending at Endwalker.

I think the story should of ended there and any additional content would just be dungeon packs and raids and such that have nothing to do with the story.

Just some fun content for those who clear the game.

[Sel Und Irae]

Originally posted by *Logan*:

Originally posted by Sel Und Irae:

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Kinda agree about ending at Endwalker.

I think the story should of ended there and any additional content would just be dungeon packs and raids and such that have nothing to do with the story.

Just some fun content for those who clear the game.

They could've done that with the reflections, If they didn't forcibly conclude the 13th reflection they could've made 2 expansions outta the 13th alone with it just being dungeons and raids with you just trying to navigate the abyss.

I do think we should step away from the story tbh, One thing i've always hated about FFXIV is you're forced to do MSQ to get new regions or dungeons.

Let me just walk in and go mine stuff, Why do i have to be the Warrior Of Light super cool badass guy? I just want to cut trees and mine ores then craft them into gear.

Or, Why do i have to do the story to go enter a random keep that has no real significance to the story aside from "It's in the way"

FFXIV is the only MMORPG that zone locks you into doing the story and suffering through cutscenes to unlock extra content.

[*Logan*]

Yea I agree the fact that literally EVERYTHING has to be related to the story is certainly a reason why they lack content these days.

[Stormy Dawn]

Despite my character being physically the opposite of me in virtually every way possible, I am quite attached to her. She's still a manifestion of my psyche because I don't choose to "play" someone else. - she's me. She's snarky, a bit opinionated and a bit anti-social. XD

I have a few alts, but that's exactly what they are - Alts - designed specifically based just on looks or something I felt like doing on a whim. My Lalafell is me though. You hang out with her in-game and you are basically hanging out with me as a person.

[*Logan*]

Originally posted by Stormy Dawn:

Despite my character being physically the opposite of me in virtually every way possible, I am quite attached to her. She's still a manifestion of my psyche because I don't choose to "play" someone else. - she's me. She's snarky, a bit opinionated and a bit anti-social. XD

I have a few alts, but that's exactly what they are - Alts - designed specifically based just on looks or something I felt like doing on a whim. My Lalafell is me though. You hang out with her in-game and you are basically hanging out with me as a person.

Nice, that is quite wholesome.
I feel that too, we may feel the connection because we are essentially one and the same with them.

[leo_gear]

I only have 2 characters and the best I can describe is, they have kind of a story connection to each other. So I wouldn't say I'm necessarily attached to them so much as they are attached to each other and I'm just watching them experience their lives through the game.

I remember reading a study on MMO players and their characters a long time ago (my memory eludes me what it was called) about the kinds of characters people make: themselves, themselves but an idealistic version, an idealistic person they desire, a friend, etc. Some players don't fall neatly into a specific category, obviously, and to me, all the little bits and bobs you can do outside of just the story helps give connection to your character no matter how bad the game's combat is, or how bland the story elements are. FF14 has a lot going for it in that regard. And when a player can consciously or hypothetically retire a character at a certain story point, I think that shows a strength in the game's narrative as it makes sense. I'd even argue that the tangent of Dawn Trails is decent since it probably could be a good starting off point of a new and fresh adventurer...too bad they didn't go that route.

[Sel Und Irae]

Originally posted by leo_gear:

I only have 2 characters and the best I can describe is, they have kind of a story connection to each other. So I wouldn't say I'm necessarily attached to them so much as they are attached to each other and I'm just watching them experience their lives through the game.

I remember reading a study on MMO players and their characters a long time ago (my memory eludes me what it was called) about the kinds of characters people make: themselves, themselves but an idealistic version, an idealistic person they desire, a friend, etc. Some players don't fall neatly into a specific category, obviously, and to me, all the little bits and bobs you can do outside of just the story helps give connection to your character no matter how bad the game's combat is, or how bland the story elements are. FF14 has a lot going for it in that regard. And when a player can consciously or hypothetically retire a character at a certain story point, I think that shows a strength in the game's narrative as it makes sense. I'd even argue that the tangent of Dawn Trails is decent since it probably could be a good starting off point of a new and fresh adventurer...too bad they didn't go that route.

People get mad when you mention that last part, I personally think Endwalker should've been the end of the Warrior Of Light. Or, Atleast the scions.

Lots of ways they could bring your character back, They just don't want to explore it.

Eorzea story is done, Anything they add now is nonsense after facing down Endsinger & Zenos & the 13th.

They closed so many possible options arbitrarily that the other reflections is literally their only option if they want to entice people. If they didn't close 13th they could've milked that specific reflection for multiple expansions.

This point only thing that will save story is either "Tsukiyomi"

(Everything was a dream) - Restart from prior point in story, Preferably in Novrandt after facing down the final warden.

or

"Timeskip"

Conclude our story, Make our character retire or fall into a coma or something, When we awaken no time has passed for us but the world has vastly aged.

Our Character is basically the saviour of the world, If we fell into a deep coma that was deathlike and they couldn't revive or detect a pulse we'd probably get our own burial site / crypt / temple / whatever.

Let our character awaken from the sarcophagus push the lid off and re-discover the world, This allows the empire to reform, Removes the scions from being an option for the writers to just do lazy story telling & allows us to make new friends, form a new order, fight new threats.

I'm very sick of Scions always being the answer to everything, Make new characters and stop being lazy.

There's nothing else they could add to the current timeline in Eorzea i'm interested in, And they seem to have zero interest in revisiting the world of Shadowbringers so nothing to do there either.

Another way they could bring the character back is the Final Fantasy X method, We are dreamt back into existence, Or summoned to save (X).

They could keep the scions in this way, Maybe make them the entities that re-summon us, Their souls in death were too strong to pass and they took a role similiar to Hydaelyn for example?

This keeps them out of the primary spotlight while letting you still occasionally interact with them, Aside from granting you power they cannot interfere with the mortal world.

They can salvage current story but not with forcing Scions nor Forcing the Warrior of Light into the story of Eorzea, Making them dumb for the plot is not the way nor making them weaker so plot can work.

[LZXio]

Originally posted by *Logan*:

I just recently did the dark knight level 50 main quest and ended up crying a bit...it was a rather emotional situation. Without giving too much away it was an unexpected to me how that played out and honestly was hard to even start attacking.

This brings us to the topic, just how attached are you to your OC?

It's quite clear to me now that I really care about my creation and I am curious how many else of you have strong feelings for your OC as well.

The DRK level 50 quest is pretty good, isn't it? Sadly imo the rest of them don't live up to that one twist by the end of it, no other job quest hit that feeling for me quite like the DRK one. To the question, not much really, used to be more attached to it in the past but I'm changing appearance all the time, at some point I stopped caring about it, even if I don't really change much the appearance between fantasias. Wish there was something else in the game that could make it seem like a more important thing.

[Demox]

Yeah except at the time of endwalker we've only been in one single continent, there's an entire world to explore. It's not like WoW where like 7 islands and 3 continents just magically appeared on maps after a few decades, in-game. We've never actually explored the world so there's actually a ridiculous amount of things to see and discover. There's also no real reason to retire the character since their general backstory is being somewhat of a descendant of a great explorer and we honestly haven't explored crap considering that, again, we've been on only one single landmass of our world. As for the reflections, on top of the rest of the world and that, there's just a great deal of things to uncover and they just can't do it all. We're human, we can't just make everything all at once. They wanted to take a break from otherwordly stuff and start with whats around us, sort of like grounding the story again. Otherwise we'll just end up being like western comics and having multiverses and time travel and dimension hopping (which yes, is kind of what we have already), and I get the appeal but I think people are tired of high science fiction.

I agree with you on one point, I feel like they could have dropped the old scions and brought in a new gang, as much as I like them I wish they took a backseat and became the "old friends" the WoL sometimes runs in to with their new retinue.

[Lixire]

After the fanta from Huyr to Miqo’te? extremely attached
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3287867723

The goal I had in mind was to complete the LoL to FF14 transition which meant bringing my main champions and it resulted in an Ahri like Miqo’te with different glamour for each main I did play. this character has her own story going outside of the FFXIV universe and I mentioned in my adventure plate “Not a Miqo'te but rather a Vastaya from lonia.” to reflect that