Letter from the Producer LIVE LXV: Ask Your YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse Questions!

First I just wanna say thank you so much for making the Nier Automata collaboration into Final Fantasy XIV, all the Nier and Drakengard games has been one of my favorite series for a long time now so this really brought alot of excitement and doing these alliance raids. Thank you so much for the amazing content Naoki Yoshida san Yoko Taro san, stay awesome!

My question: When the Copied Factory raid was recently released, I remember there was a bug concerning the Dying Dragon from the DRK quest appearing at the last area and if it is okay to ask, I was wondering if that was some kind of intentional joke but an eater egg referring to Angelus from Drakengard 1?

The final boss for the Tower at Paradigm's Breach was heavily inspired by Drakengard. Was there any ideas for a full on Drakengard boss like the bosses on the way to that final boss?

Matsuno (unfortunately) confirmed there was no more Ivalice story coming.

Are we (hopefully) done with anything Nier related?

Many of us were disappointed by how abruptly the story seemed to end, leaving more questions than answers. Is this really it, or will there be a bit more to come? Any hidden endings out there for us to discover?

Thank you for creating such an amazing collaboration, the question I had in mind was why the a Kainé theme remix was chosen instead of the presumably more relevant "The Final Song" from Drakengard 3?

Why was the 'story' such a let-down?
All it was was a collection of moments from other games to crowbar in fights.

I expected more.

To be fair the fights were amazing.
And the laser corridor is the best dungeon corridor in the entire game.

What have been your key takeaways from this raid tier based on users' feedback and statistics?

I assume this will be addressed given the focus but I'm still super curious especially since before Shadowbringers the blu mage content actually went up to the level cap. If you guys do make more blu content in Endwalker is it going to go to 80 or 90?

I don't have any questions, but I'd just like to thank you for the Nier raid, because it was a nice tribute, the raid fights after raid made us think of what is typical to the Nier license adapted to the FFXIV gameplay.

And thank you, for the glam Nier and the beautiful orchestrions.

Can we get a Pod Flying Mount where you hold on to it with one hand? Similar to the sequence animation we have for location change that occurs in the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse raid.

Yoko Taro, I'm dying to know: What would the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse story have been like if you'd been able to do whatever you wanted without anyone to tell you "no?" Even just a little insight would be awesome!

To Yoko Taro (and perhaps the rest of the Dark Apocalypse team); if given the opportunity to include a mechanic along the lines of the infamously rejected Puppet's Bunker one of "let's have the hallway wipe the raid if even one player hits an orb", what would it be?

Do you think we can get a 2B or 9S glamour for the Machinist's Automaton Queen much like how Summoners got their egis to have carbuncle glamour?

i want yoko taro to write a story for the next expansion after endwalker, is that too much for him?

Was there a reason that zero effort was made to have the Nier storyline fit into the ffxiv storyline in any way?

Hello SE Team,

Within the past month there has been a huge influx of new players to FFXIV. Many of these new players were influenced by affluent Twitch MMO streamers trying out FFXIV. Their biggest complaint is the EU and NA process they have to go through to register for the game. The process between going from a trial account to a subscription is very difficult in NA and EU. Do you plan to address this, and make it easier for NA and EU players to play the game?

Are there any plans for Mr. Taro to work with the FF14 team again in the future?

For Yoko Taro,

What was the importance of Glagg's madness and what happened to him?

At the end of the Dark Apocalypse storyline is Anogg a figment of Konogg's imagination, or was she somehow revived?

Are there any current plans to add cosmetic Nier themed weapons? If not, why? As a suggestion, perhaps allow us to trade all three coins for one Level 1 weapon?

Is there a reason why we could not get a treasure coffer for 9S glam like we were able to get for 2B at the end of the first raid? I'm genuinely curious as I was really hoping we'd get 9S as well by the end.