Does it bother anyone else that SE assumes we're going to buy heavensward?

[Slappah]

I'm not bothered by the way they did it, but I can see your point. I never played ffxi but I've spent 8 years on WoW and every expansion there had an ending, and then usually right before the next expansion they added a little patch to transition.

Theres a big difference between WoW and XIV though in the fact that wow tells it's story through its raids.

XIV story is just that, the story. The end game raid doesn't tie in to that.

If XIV was like WoW, we would be beat t13 and that would've been the end of the ARR story and the end of HW story would be us beating Alexander.

But that's not how it is here.

So yes, WoW had an ending to each of its expansions, but the story was told through raid progression and completing the raids, here our story is told through solely story quests.

[Tyrial]

Theres a big difference between WoW and XIV though in the fact that wow tells it's story through its raids.

XIV story is just that, the story. The end game raid doesn't tie in to that.

If XIV was like WoW, we would be beat t13 and that would've been the end of the ARR story and the end of HW story would be us beating Alexander.

That's not entirely true. Coil had it's own independent story but it tied into the Main Scenario beginning with the ending credits for ARR after you clear the last story dungeon for 2.0. They've deviated from that for Heavensward because the "Story" (if you want to call it that) has been linked to the easy mode raid as opposed to the actual End Game raiding.

[CrimsonThunder]

6/10 has troll potential but needs works.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

That's not entirely true. Coil had it's own independent story but it tied into the Main Scenario beginning with the ending credits for ARR after you clear the last story dungeon for 2.0. They've deviated from that for Heavensward because the "Story" (if you want to call it that) has been linked to the easy mode raid as opposed to the actual End Game raiding.

The reason the story is more stand alone now compared to 2.0 linked to the Coil is you had people beg Square for years to include a story mode for the Coil and people who couldn't clear the Coil would just not bother anymore and watch the cutscenes online. The devs want more people doing end game raiding instead of just not doing it and watching it all online, so they tried to cater to both camps and...yeah.

[Felis]

That's not entirely true. Coil had it's own independent story but it tied into the Main Scenario beginning with the ending credits for ARR after you clear the last story dungeon for 2.0. They've deviated from that for Heavensward because the "Story" (if you want to call it that) has been linked to the easy mode raid as opposed to the actual End Game raiding.

Coil is also, like the ARR story, an extension of the 7th umbral era story from 1.x