Jesus Christ do people love putting words in my mouth.

Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
FF7 was connected to X without the input of the 7 team, it was a retconned thing in the Ultimania. XIV is not connected to Ivalice, this was disproven by Matsuno himself on his Twitter (why not rant about how Ashe and Rassler are twins in XIV?), The Ivalice Alliance games are the only ones connected between themselves. XIII was only alluded due to nods, but isn't actually connected (Another dimension, was the excuse), Are you seriously trying to say that because the Garleans use tech that's cosmetically similar to 6 that they're connected?
https://youtu.be/BA1gwFKq7u0?t=251 It's 100% confirmed. Straight from the horse's mouth. As for everything else, please notice how I stated SPECIFICALLY that certain WORLDS are the same, while others are simply CONNECTED. The fact that Ivalice shows up in multiple Final Fantasies means said Final Fantasies are connected. That also means Garlean technology being an obvious throwback/connection to FF6. It's even named Magitek. That is a connection, whether you believe it or not. That's one of the foundations of the whole Final Fantasy series - these connections between each world that define them as part of the Final Fantasy multiverse. If there were zero connections, we would not see Ivalice in FFXIV. We would not see moogles in every FF. we would not see chocobos in all of them either. I'm really not sure how much more I can explain this to you.


Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
The point is that by going "I'm a writer so X" and then going off on tangents about how they can't change this aspect of the Lore (while ignoring that it actually WAS changed and these are not the same Viera from Ivalice) is beyond pedantic, and this is from another writer.
Well gee, didn't know saying my profession would make people think I'm a snob. That's what I get for trying to explain my point of view I guess! Also, you definitely did not read my post, as I stated later on within it that I would be happy to see both races have both genders, which means changing XIV's lore about them. Nowhere at all did I state in any of my posts in this whole entire forum that they absolutely can not change Viera lore - only that at most it could be potentially hard, and at least it explains their reasoning for not having male viera. Look up my posts. I don't have many of them.