Why Final Fantasy 14 players are arguing about the right way to eat eggs

Final Fantasy 14 has a new egg-eating emote that's sparked debate about whether it's weird to leave half of the shell on a hard-boiled egg.

The controversial eggmote (sorry) was released in time with 2022's Hatching Tide event. At first glance, it's a harmless little Easter-themed thing, but as Eurogamer spotted, it's stirring up quite a chatter in the Final Fantasy 14 community due to one conspicuous detail: it appears to have only been half-peeled.

Twitter user Mrhappy1227 flagged this hard-boiled dilemma down with the official FF14 Twitter account after conducting a real-life experiment and coming to the conclusion that the technique seen in the emote is "incredibly impractical."

In a response, Twitter user Kurome suggested that what we're seeing in the emote is just a variation of a popular dish that features a soft-boiled egg in a tiny cup with toast for dipping into the yolk, but Mrhappy1227 countered by pointing out that Final Fantasy 14's egg emote is clearly a hard-boiled egg - plus, there's no dipping toast anywhere in sight.

Naturally, the controversy caught the attention of the Final Fantasy 14 player who became famous for eating thousands of digital eggs during a livestream. Ross O'Donovan tweeted out simply that he'd "heard the news," prompting a response from Square Enix. O'Donovan also wondered aloud whether his egg-eating exploits had any influence on Final Fantasy 14's new emote, but the jury's still out on that one.

What say you, readers? Is Final Fantasy 14's half-peeled egg a hard-boiled catastrophe or a stroke of genius?

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