Dedicated Thread for Patch 2.55 Story Discussion/Spoilers

[Gyson]

Nope. There's a bigger continuity "error" than even Nanamo's undeath: what caused Nidhogg to awaken, and how did Estinien acquire his blood? These are both events that happen during the Dragoon Job quests as a direct result of your involvement with Estinien, and yet he references them even if you haven't leveled DRG, and, more importantly, they still occur during the DRG quests even if you do them after 2.55, as if Ishgard still hasn't been attacked.

There are little errors all over the place in addition to the bigger ones, but after a point the devs have to accept that some people will end up dealing with quests out of order.

I don't feel that's of the same magnitude as the leader of Ul'dah jumping from alive to dead to alive depending on the order in which you do the quests.

All class, job, gathering, and crafting class quests happen in the 2.0 cycle. Nanamo's death is the 2.55 cycle. They set it up so all those happen BEFORE everything from 2.1 on. Meaning it's not a continuity error, it's that the story assumes that the players were done with all that long ago.

This is giving the player too much credit, and not something SE seems to typically do. Your typical player joining the game today and playing through the various storylines doesn't see patch 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, etc. They aren't coming to the forums or checking out the chronological order content was released in. To them this is just one big game with a big story, and seemingly some major continuity errors depending on the order they consume the content in.

There are plenty of ways to fix this, and the developers seem like the type not to sweep this sort of thing under the rug. That they haven't bothered to fix it can mean several things, (one of those being that Nanamo isn't really dead). Combined with some of the statements given by a few of the NPCs in the game, I tend to believe that's a strong possibility. Just an opinion, though!