Do you think something big is coming? (Calamity scale)

[Makeda]

I think the game would improve if it moved from the source to a world more like the First but without the light having wiped out 90%...

But I can’t think if a good way to do this...

I like that the first feels more like a fantasy world:

1. No magitek. It is just too all over the place on the source
2. No beast tribes. The races are not split into a “these guys are lessors” division. Races that on the source are “beast” in the first are just “that guy over there who runs the shop”.
3. The new races are better mixed in
4. The ancients are not sci-fi high tech, but actually ancient less advanced but still deeply mysterious
5. The lore is just... better... it doesn’t feel patched together as a means to repair a broken game. It feels like a whole piece.

So I want some calamity that resets things and puts us on a first-like world. From interviews we know Yoshi probably also wants this. But I see no good path to get there...


Rather I fear ShB will go down as FFXIV’s worst expac because from here on out we will be running around instanced versions of Garlemad and Damascia (Or whatever Fran’s home was called) that resemble what we got for Ala Migo...

Right now 5.0 was amazing... but it also seems to have concluded the First... and it looks like 5.x is the Xenos expansion... No Calamity, no fully rich zones... just choppy plot wrapups...

Might have to drop a moon on that to get 6.0 out the door...