Originally Posted by
ItMe
I felt this way about the Ivalice raids TBH.
It felt like being the third wheel in another characters quest, and not knowing shit about Ivalician lore I was super uninterested to babysit NPCs through content unrelated to anything.
The crystal tower and void ark tied into pre1.0 lore and worked off of what had happened in previous calamities.
The nier raid is an extension of one of the endings from Automata and is probably cannon to it.
The Ivalician stuff came out of nothing and never mattered to anything beyond themselves.
It's not like it's even tying 3, tactics, or 12 to 14 the way the Nier raids tied Nier to 14, because with the Nier raids it's, again, literally the same Nier. But the Ivalice in 14 is unique to 14 and only based on the other games, but not connected to any of them or expanding on them.