FFXI crossover event

[Nalien]

I wanted an English version of Final Fantasy Grandmasters!

Would be hilarious if they could add that as another new mini-game in the Gold Saucer.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

My hopes and dreams for this crossover event: revealing the two worlds are connected some how. And not just by a dimension hopping portal/wormhole.

[Gunspec]

My hopes and dreams for this crossover event: revealing the two worlds are connected some how. And not just by a dimension hopping portal/wormhole.

They ARE connected. The gods who created Eorzea where lazy when coming up with an idea for a new world, so they stole ideas from the last successful world, but muddled them up a lot. Then the gods cried out, and a new god destroyed the world, combined the remains with foreign influences, and brought forth its current incarnation.

[Recaldy]

It'll be one giant panty raid in the sewers just you wait!

[Taika]

I hope they'll bring AV to freely roam in the world and kill all players on its way.

[Enkidoh]

They ARE connected. The gods who created Eorzea where lazy when coming up with an idea for a new world, so they stole ideas from the last successful world, but muddled them up a lot. Then the gods cried out, and a new god destroyed the world, combined the remains with foreign influences, and brought forth its current incarnation.

Haha... yeah, except the first god didn't care too much about his creation and had left things in the hands of his messengers who were not that familiar with creating and maintaining a universe on their own, leading to a war in Heaven where the first god was defeated and cast out, his successor taking it upon himself to remake the world in the image desired by the mortals of the realm. And there was but much rejoicing...

Seriously though, the development team did officially debunk the 'FFXI=FFXIV' theory a long time ago, so the only connections between the two are just fanservice references like with other FF worlds in XIV.

[Rahzel]

The XI and Dragon Quest events were for giggles mostly, though I think the Dragon Quest one was to commemorate Dragon Quest X? Either way, those two events have yet to be repeated in the near two years since, not really seeing what's changed in XI since then to warrant a repeat.

They were repeated last year for the game's anniversary.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/anniv.../na/index.html

[Marxam]

I hope they put in some of the music from FFXI. While I never played it I love the battle music and Nobuo Uematsu is still godly.

[Enkidoh]

I hope they put in some of the music from FFXI. While I never played it I love the battle music and Nobuo Uematsu is still godly.

Except that Nobuo Uematsu... wasn't actually FFXI's main composer. Most of FFXI's OST was actually the work of Naoshi Mizuta (including most of the battle themes), with Kumi Tanoika providing a number of tracks for the base game, but the expansion sountracks were completely Mizuta's work. Uematsu only provided the main theme song Distant Worlds and it's variations, the opening orchestral theme Memoria di la Stona, the eponymous field track Ronfaure, and reoccurring FF tracks like the various chocobo theme variations including Dash de Chocobo and the Prelude when on the FFXI update page of Playonline Viewer.

Uematsu's first large scale composing work on a FF game after FFIX was FFXIV version 1.0, but that's another story.

But yeah, this new crossover event will definitely feature FFXI music - the last event with Shantotto featured... a remix of her final boss theme Feast of the Ladies from her FFXI mini-add-on expansion A Shantotto Ascension (this version actually was included on the ARR OST under the title Reign of Pain ), and the FFXI 'quest complete' fanfare when the FATE and event were completed. So it is almost guaranteed we will have FFXI music show up again during this event.

[Averax]

It's a surprise

I will hope for glamours.