Quote Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer View Post
I don't think they're going to do that at all. WoW went the extremely lazy way with that. FFXI, which is actually older than that, changes cutscenes and the characters involved depending on the content cleared, which is actually really impressive since the events in question change the power structure of an entire city. XIV actually does this, too, to a certain extent, for example, you can guarantee Alisaie will have different dialogue when she appears if you've cleared Coil. The level 60 SMN quest dialogue changes based on if you've killed Lahabrea first or not. Estinien has different dialogue based on if you've done the DRG questline. So on.

FFXIV adores its continuity, as they should. They aren't going to toss it out of the window.
Yoshi said that from 4.0 onwards, expansion msq and trials will no longer be gated behind previous expansions to help new players dive straight into new content if level appropriate, so they don't have to spend hours/days grinding msq and dungeons/trials that nobody q's for. Also allowing hardcore players to jump into ex trials without having to skip all the msq.