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.