Regarding Stormblood sidequests

[Moomba33]

I have to agree that the devs seem more interested in the Far East. We got the new hub city (Kugane) and the Doman Restoration going on over there while Ala Mhigo proper was regulated to a dungeon.
Here's hoping 4.5 gives it some love.

[Bright-Flower]

I have to agree that the devs seem more interested in the Far East. We got the new hub city (Kugane) and the Doman Restoration going on over there while Ala Mhigo proper was regulated to a dungeon.
Here's hoping 4.5 gives it some love.

What baffles me about Kugane is it has nothing to do with anything else in the expansion. It's not related to Doma or Ala Mhigo, and in the story basically serves as a pit stop between the two. They didn't even used the fact that it's a neutral city with a Garlean Embassy in the prisoner exchange plot.

[Anonymoose]

To this day I still cannot fathom the "Ala Mhigo Expansion" not only not having Ala Mhigo in it, but sending the message that we will just never have Ala Mhigo, period, that there's just not sufficient room, resources, or reason for it to be its own city-state beyond The Lochs. In some ways it's almost outright comical.

[Balipu]

To this day I still cannot fathom the "Ala Mhigo Expansion" not only not having Ala Mhigo in it, but sending the message that we will just never have Ala Mhigo, period, that there's just not sufficient room, resources, or reason for it to be its own city-state beyond The Lochs. In some ways it's almost outright comical.

I don't mind personally. I never cared much for Ala Mhigans. But I can imagine it would hard for somebody who actually likes them.

[Bright-Flower]

I don't mind personally. I never cared much for Ala Mhigans. But I can imagine it would hard for somebody who actually likes them.

Fair enough. For me it's particularly painful because I was excited for Ala Mhigo and didn't care about the Doma story, so not only did I not get Ala Mhigo, I didn't get it because they split the expansions' focus into a region I don't care about, and made the main city of the game part of a THIRD nation that has nothing to do with SB's plot.

[Risvertasashi]

They didn't even used the fact that it's a neutral city with a Garlean Embassy in the prisoner exchange plot.

This would have been even stranger. Why would a nation that goes to great lengths to avoid getting caught up in other nations' squabbles agree to host a prisoner exchange for 2 third parties? 2 third parties still in a war that hasn't been formally concluded, no less.

[MicahZerrshia]

The sad part is the ala mhigo angle was so much more interesting, or could have been, than Doma which felt shoehorned in. We beat back the Garleans way to easily on both fronts.

While I don't mind the eastern theme, even though it is the last aesthetic that I tend to gravitate to, the story suffered for it. They should have either waited and gave the east its own expac. Personally I would have loved if they grew the Indian theme they were building in Ala Mhigo, but they just reduced it to a beast tribe and gave the rest just small influences.

Not to mention there is enough JP and Euro themes in games but very little Indian, it would have been something more fresh than just another heavy handed recreation of old Japan.

[Bright-Flower]

This would have been even stranger. Why would a nation that goes to great lengths to avoid getting caught up in other nations' squabbles agree to host a prisoner exchange for 2 third parties? 2 third parties still in a war that hasn't been formally concluded, no less.

I'm not saying the prisoner exchange itself should have been there, but that it would have made a great meeting ground for both parties to discuss things, and would have given Kugane SOME relevance the story beyond being a pit stop on the way to Doma.

[MistakeNot]

To this day I still cannot fathom the "Ala Mhigo Expansion" not only not having Ala Mhigo in it, but sending the message that we will just never have Ala Mhigo, period, that there's just not sufficient room, resources, or reason for it to be its own city-state beyond The Lochs. In some ways it's almost outright comical.

What do you mean "not having Ala Mhigo in it"? Aren't The Peaks, The Fringes, and The Lochs (and Rhalgar's Reach) all part of the old city-state of Ala Mhigo? They are pretty devastated since the Garlean invasion, but they are part of Ala Mhigo.
We haven't seen all of Ala Mhigo, true - but we haven't seen all of any of the other citystates in Eorzea either. Plenty of geography outside the playable zones.

[Moomba33]

What do you mean "not having Ala Mhigo in it"? Aren't The Peaks, The Fringes, and The Lochs (and Rhalgar's Reach) all part of the old city-state of Ala Mhigo? They are pretty devastated since the Garlean invasion, but they are part of Ala Mhigo.
We haven't seen all of Ala Mhigo, true - but we haven't seen all of any of the other citystates in Eorzea either. Plenty of geography outside the playable zones.

No other city state is missing the city proper though.
The current state of Ala Mhigo is as if we had access to The Black Shroud zones but could only visit Gridania as a dungeon.