Lightning Fates are a disgrace to the series, and a broken promise? SPOILERS

[Shioban]

If you were looking for defining logical answer in a fantasy game, then you're going to have a bad time.

But they wanted a marketing opportunity, this was it, both games shared an 'advertising space', the FATE and outfits in FFXIV, the Miqo'te outfit and Grand Company weapons in LRFFXIII.

The best thing about it, BOTH ARE OPTIONAL. Nothing forces you to do the lightning fate, events, outfits or even interact with them.


But overall in a fantasy setting you can have giant cyborg tentacle monsters instantiating from the nether at any given time through a game like this.

and rushed.

Development of Final Fantasy XIII began in February 2004 under the codename "Colors World"

Release date(s)
JP December 17, 2009 (PS3)
WW March 9, 2010

You were saying?

They even publicly acknowledged and apologized that the game didn't live up to their this many many times.

Square Enix had 180 artists, 30 programmers and 36 designers working on Final Fantasy 13, and that many people on board made its development complicated, director Motomu Toriyama told Gamasutra.

"With a large-scale development team, we didn't use our time well," Toriyama said. "How do you communicate to everyone in the department what the drive of the game is?"

Toriyama and his team tried to keep the game as secret as possible within the massive workforce, which led to playtesting happening "way too late in the process," he said. Square intended to fix those issues with Final Fantasy 13-2, and implemented production-based milestones as opposed to story-based ones it used at the beginning of FF13's development. Still, more needs to change.

"We are also thinking that we will not do large-scale internal development any longer," Toriyama said. "We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time."

[Kirku]

Your a disgrace to this family!!!!

[Kopuno]

Lightning FATEs a disgrace to the series? Wasn't the 13 series enough of a disgraced to the FF series already in the first place? Hard to disgrace what was already disgraced. More on point though, I thought the Lightning Event was right on par with the 13 series. Boring, bland, and lackluster.

[Cherie]

I thought that it really was a OK event. I wouldn't say it was fantastic...but what are we comparing it to? It's a 'event' so...that means:

The Fair, with the cascadier swimsuits, so now I can run around half naked...sure why not!

Halloween event, um so yea, ghost costume? sure, I feel like a ghost sometimes, no one notices I'm around....PERFECT!

and now, Lightning comes to Eorzea... why does she come again? I don't care, I just want her clothes!

Seems like a normal event to me! /nods

On a side not though? Yes, you were right on this point, it was totally a commercial for the Lightning games! And being that, it induces a slight groan from everyone just like seeing Superman go to IHOP in 'Man of Steel'. Cause well, did they reeeeeally need to do that? um... yes they did, cause it made them money! /nods

[YarozeX]

Go read the lore forum for the even. They kinda explane some things in there about it. (to a point anyways)

[Felis]

She basically comes to Eorzea, says 'Hello', then 'Goodbye', her appearence in FF14 doesn't affect the story in FF14 and it doesn't add anything to FF13 either, basically making it POINTLESS.

She got a Miqo'te gear which she can now wear in her world.

[coffeeking]

agreed I was expecting much, MUCH more...pops into this world kills some things and it's time to go..uh?

[Dreamer]

As I didn't want her here to begin with, I'm happier that she has no impact. The less this absurdly blatant marketing attempt for 13-whatever using a poorly written attempt at a 2nd Cloud has on FFXIV, the better.

[Callo]

Actually thought the event was really nicely done. Cute little fates and brief character interactions with Lightning were definitely fun.

[Gilthas]

The whole point of the Lightning FATES were to try and gain hype for 13-3. They've sunk a lot of money into the 13 series and it's been a pretty big flop since the release of the first one.

Yeah, games that sell over 6 million units are a "flop". /sigh

But the aim was to bring them without affecting the story, in a way that made sense (which was the promise)

The thread should have ended with this post.