soo are the dragons really the enemy?

[LineageRazor]

This is factually inaccurate.
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I mean, the difference is right there in the lines. Full breakdown in following (spoiler) thread:

Intaki is aware of the Reddit spoiler thread:

The Japanese version (or rather, the Redditor with an agenda version) simply tries to justify it further by insinuating that because Ishgard did bad things before, it follows that it will do so again.

He/she believes that it is the result of a biased translation - that the translator wished to portray the dragons in a positive light, and so tailored his or her translation to emphasize this. I do not know if there's any truth to that belief. It would take someone fluent in Japanese to examine that Reddit thread and declare, "Yeah, that's pretty much the best, most straightforward way to translate that." or "Huh, there's some odd translation choices being made here. The author may have an agenda!" I don't know if anyone in this thread, including Intaki, has those qualifications, so it's pointless to argue about it. Intaki thinks liberties were taken, and no one else here can provide any evidence to the contrary since none of us can translate it ourselves.

Anyway, what I'm most curious about is whether the Heavensward expansion Main Scenario quests are going to require completion of the original Main Scenario quests to begin them. One thing that was kind of interesting in FFXI was that each expansion had a completely independent storyline, with the exception of the first expansion (which required completion of the Main Scenario of the base game). You could play the scenario from Wings of the Goddess without ever touching the scenario from. Making expansions independent has a lot going for it - players new to the game purchasing the expansion don't have to worry about catching up on all the previous expansions before they can dig into the new stuff.

Every indication right now is that Heavensward is going to pick right up from the current Main Scenario. It's early in the game's life, so maybe this is feasible now, just as Rise of the Zilart was when it was released for FFXI.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

blah.

Highly doubt it since the end of 2.5 seems to be shaping up to throwing you into the mess that is Ishgard and how their troubles might spill over into other city states if it's not dealt with soon, not to mention the showing of the Ascians influencing the Holy See in some way and said Ascians have been troublesome to everyone for a long time.