How the series should be referenced in ARR.
How would you like old FF's to be referenced? Personally I'm hugely against in your face references to characters or places that have no logical place on Hydalen.
One reference I really like is:
The Onion Doublet Set [FFIII counterpart]
Notice how this set references the original armour heavily? (here's a more recent iteration if you're not convinced)
This is how I want all armour to be referenced in ARR. It's not OTT, it has a logical place in the XIV lore and it's been made to fit into the aesthetic views of XIV, making it feel like it's supposed to be there.
If a player who has never experienced the series can't see that a certain set of armour is looking significantly weird, compared to rest then I think that SE has done a good job.
There's a couple of other references I enjoy like the whole Sephiroth/mocking name reference. too.
There's already a number of other references to VII.
So how do you think XIV should reference the older games?