FFXIV Dalmascan /Lore/Return ?

Hello all i was wondering will we or SE ever said anything about Dalmasca ? i know in dawntrail we get some island and the "new world" , but what about this part of the world ?
or am i missing something , im asking because im replaying the game and i reach the part of the Ivalice Raid ,

Still if anyone got some insight let me know.

Dalmasca's in an uncomfortable position where the developers essentially consider it Matsuno's part of the world, and just won't write it without him. So unless they bring in Matsuno again, we almost definitely won't, sorry.

But also, the fact it's Matsuno's part of the world means that it's really easy to find equivalents or pre-fill. If you want more of that style, it exists already, and if you've already played all of Matsuno's games then you can imagine how the rest of that region feels.

But since you've only started the Ivalice raids, it's worth noting that the relic weapon storyline in Shadowbirngers, Save the Queen, is also in that part of the world.

I was waiting for a more positive response lol , but i wonder if Matsuno , is part of SE should they be able to do it without him ? and about me well im alredy pass the whole storyline , been on the game since 1.0.

but still thanks

Matsuno is not an employee of Square Enix and has not been so for quite some time. All of his work on XIV is on a contract basis. If they wish for him to come back for any reason they can arrange that. Matsuno himself still occasionally publicly talks about the game (mostly when people tweet at him about it, but also when Sakaguchi was first starting to play), and he delivered a message for the game's anniversary, so from all accounts the option is open.

Last we heard about the Dalmasca plotline following Save the Queen, if they return to that plot it would be once the country is free.

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Matsuno is not an employee of Square Enix and has not been so for quite some time. All of his work on XIV is on a contract basis. If they wish for him to come back for any reason they can arrange that. Matsuno himself still occasionally publicly talks about the game (mostly when people tweet at him about it, but also when Sakaguchi was first starting to play), and he delivered a message for the game's anniversary, so from all accounts the option is open.

Last we heard about the Dalmasca plotline following Save the Queen, if they return to that plot it would be once the country is free.

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THANKS for droping that QUEST NAME really no sarcasm i never completed BOZJAN .. wow miss a lot now i will need to finish it !!

"edited" im serius really thanks ,i never finish that in shadowbringer . now matter how i phrase it it sounds like sarcasm but w/e thanks

Dalmasca is now also in the annoying position of the fact that it’s tied to Bozja. If they want to do anything else with it they need to set completing Bozja all the way to dalriada as a requirement. This is a pretty big pre-requisite for another quest (arguably the largest pre-requisite the game has for a single quest line if they made it)

Since they won’t even make functionally MSQ side content like eden mandatory u can easily see them never returning to dalmasca even ignoring the contract issues with matsuno

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THANKS for droping that QUEST NAME really no sarcasm i never completed BOZJAN .. wow miss a lot now i will need to finish it !!

"edited" im serius really thanks ,i never finish that in shadowbringer . now matter how i phrase it it sounds like sarcasm but w/e thanks

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Actually, we haven't told you the quest name: the Bozja storyline (officially called Save the Queen) starts with the quest Hail to the Queen, which you'll be able to find in Kugane after finishing both all the Ivalice raids, and Shadowbringers.

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Dalmasca is now also in the annoying position of the fact that it’s tied to Bozja. If they want to do anything else with it they need to set completing Bozja all the way to dalriada as a requirement. This is a pretty big pre-requisite for another quest (arguably the largest pre-requisite the game has for a single quest line if they made it)

Since they won’t even make functionally MSQ side content like eden mandatory u can easily see them never returning to dalmasca even ignoring the contract issues with matsuno

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And yeah, a direct continuation of the story would be a little haywire in this direction, although they could plausibly tell a parallel story. Like maybe something set entirely in Golmore Jungle, or something following characters that appear/are referenced and aren't completely wrapped up in Bozja, like Fran and Ashe. I could see a Lyon story working, but it'd be an awkward toeing the line.

Ivalice is my favourite world of any FF franchise, I would love to see more of it.

As a big FFXII/Tactics fan, I just want the loose ends at the end of Save the Queen questline to lead somewhere.

It is absolutely CRIMINAL to have "that man" only appear in cutscenes and the leader Fran listens to being completely unnamed (and inexperienced, like a certain character I know).

I pray for more Ivalice content eventually. Would dig hearing "Struggle for Freedom" play in this game.

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(and inexperienced, like a certain character I know).

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I mean yeah, Alphinaud was pretty bad at that, there's no denying it. But also, experience can't be granted from nothing, you've gotta get it somewhere, and the only way to get leadership experience is to lead.

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I mean yeah, Alphinaud was pretty bad at that, there's no denying it. But also, experience can't be granted from nothing, you've gotta get it somewhere, and the only way to get leadership experience is to lead.

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I was not referring to Alphinaud. I was referring to Fran's leader who was only hinted at in quests during Return to Ivalice quests but not in name.

In actuality I was referring to a character from the FFXII/Tactics Universe, which I refrain from naming for spoiler reasons.

Ivalice's square enix's best world so far as far as I'm concerned; unfortunate if we don't return to it. And before anyone goes "but xiv should be xiv instead of being xii," well what about Doma and how it was pulled out directly from FFVI? We don't really need an entire expansion based in Ivalice-Dalmasca only, it could just be like they did with Doma.

After endwalker it feels square enix's just "winging" or improvising when it comes to FFXIV; there's no real clear direction of what the warrior of light is supposed to fight for anymore since there's no clear danger in the world left.

Hopefully the same way the new hrothgar girl pulled the WOL aside to fight her fight, we can get Fran to do the same next expansion.

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And before anyone goes "but xiv should be xiv instead of being xii," well what about Doma and how it was pulled out directly from FFVI?

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Basically the only things 'pulled directly' from FFVI Doma for XIV's were the name, and a guy named Cyan living there. And maybe a water-centric demise of the castle, but I think at that point you're stretching the word 'directly' to the point of uselessness.

Honestly not sure why you picked Doma for this point, when the Four Archfiends are right there. They don't really make sense for this argument you've decided you're having with your own strawman either (I don't think anybody begrudges XIV going for some close-to-the-hilt references for fanservice every so often) but they're both much more recent and much closer to their source.

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Basically the only things 'pulled directly' from FFVI Doma for XIV's were the name, and a guy named Cyan living there. And maybe a water-centric demise of the castle, but I think at that point you're stretching the word 'directly' to the point of uselessness.

Honestly not sure why you picked Doma for this point, when the Four Archfiends are right there. They don't really make sense for this argument you've decided you're having with your own strawman either (I don't think anybody begrudges XIV going for some close-to-the-hilt references for fanservice every so often) but they're both much more recent and much closer to their source.

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In the end it's up to me which example I choose; it's one of many. Furthermore, it's far from a strawman, it's an argument that has been documented by many in the past.