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

[Arthem]

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I know you weren't suggesting they actually stole the idea or something, I was only poking fun :P

Pretty sure meteors bringing the end of the world has been a common video game trope for as long as games have been around, I just can't think of any others off the top of my head right now.

[Shougun]

They've joked about it enough that I think there might be something to it.

Yeah, I mean it's entirely possible to be a joke- obviously lol, but at the same time Yoshida has said somethings in the past maybe an off comment or whatever and then later (sometimes much later) delivered on exactly that. Also he seems a bit of a playful spirit, like he might toy with us and lay the ground work at the same time.

And in this case a lot of times the "jokes" are actual answers too. You know it's not like "haha I guess we can drop a dalamud on x thing players didn't like" this is like... "oh we need to do this server changing stunt, might need a dalamud" "we're thinking about how to go about topping our previous success by making a real calamity this time" things that are a joke in part yes.. but also totally don't have to be jokes lol. They're (calamities) actual solutions.

It has the potential to be different lol.

Plus Yoshida has said a few times he's impressed with Blizzard and WoW, I suppose it wouldn't be that weird for him to see what does and doesn't work with that sort of concept and maybe produce a SE/FF variant of the Cataclysm with their own ideas and inspirations. It would be perfect for players to be able to use new game plus before introducing something like that, a huge problem with cataclysm was losing so much content and worse still if done in FF where MSQ is pretty meaty (don't want to loose all that meat to nothing).

I'm not sure, and it moves into a bit of conspiracy type thought, but at the same time if you laid out what's been said and done into like a puzzle, I feel Calamity could fit without too much effort XD.

I know you weren't suggesting they actually stole the idea or something, I was only poking fun :P

Pretty sure meteors bringing the end of the world has been a common video game trope for as long as games have been around, I just can't think of any others off the top of my head right now.

Oh haha thank you <3 . I knew you were right as soon as I read it, I was like -doh-... myself now reading "attempting to be clear they weren't stealing it when they did it themselves 3 years earlier"- so I felt a bit silly, but still wanted to paint that moon in the sky picture too with majora lol.

But thank you for clarifying it as a fun poke (I wasn't mad before, as you were so right, but now I read it in a much more jovial light and I like it ).

I can't think of any right now either but I'm sure you're right, also the dinosaurs probably agree xD.

[RyuSaarva]

yes, they are going to kill desynthesis.

[Aylis]

Nha, its just a way to say they just can't or would need magic to do it.

Let call it a counter "looking forward to it".

Pretty much this. I mean the calamity thing was basically just the driving plot to shut down FFXIV with grace to reboot it since it was considered a failure. FFXIV now is successful and making bank, that and the games original coding is already being pushed to the max. Between those two I doubt SE would do another calamity. The only way I could see one happening is when the games story is completely done and the game goes into perma-maintenance mode as a means to get players to move to the next FF MMO.

[Ash_]

I actually think the First will be merged no matter what with the Source eventually, possibly by the end of ShB, and that it will be a 'soft' calamity. That is the worst effects are mitigated, and the Source winds up with one whole new continent.

[Nariel]

I actually think the First will be merged no matter what with the Source eventually, possibly by the end of ShB, and that it will be a 'soft' calamity. That is the worst effects are mitigated, and the Source winds up with one whole new continent.

Nope, impossible for the sole fact we have to be able to go back to it whenever we want.

[Seraphor]

Nope, impossible for the sole fact we have to be able to go back to it whenever we want.

I think they mean it will be somehow 'semi-merged' meaning Norvrandt as a whole, intact is placed on Hydaelyn, not overlaying Eorzea.
I think this is unlikely, but it's not without precedent in the Final Fantasy series. This pretty much happened in V.
The main issue would be the Crystal Tower, because then we'd end up with two Crystal Towers, and that'd be a bit of a paradox.

[Nariel]

I think they mean it will be somehow 'semi-merged' meaning Norvrandt as a whole, intact is placed on Hydaelyn, not overlaying Eorzea.
I think this is unlikely, but it's not without precedent in the Final Fantasy series. This pretty much happened in V.
The main issue would be the Crystal Tower, because then we'd end up with two Crystal Towers, and that'd be a bit of a paradox.

XIV is a MMO, V wasn't.

World merging have nothing to do with continent poping here and there, the source will just endure one more catastrophy and bring the eight astral era upon us if we survive while the reflect will be converted to aether and go back to "were it belongs"..

Reflect aren't fragment in the way Norvandt is a continent from the same original planet, they are if I get it right aetherical aspected copies of the same world. Ascians seems to make the element aspect of each reflect overflow to the point of no return until it devour everything else for it to go back in its original recipient when the trigger is pulled on the source by a "world ending event" shaking it. The black rose probably is the trigger for the first reflect to be merged.

I think the separation of the original world work a bit like color spectrum :

We had the white light and Hydaelyn separated them like a prism would do and Ascian want to add color after color to the husk until it goes back to pure white.

[SturmChurro]

ARR could use another rebirth, would be a good way to fix it. However, I doubt the devs would actually put that much effort into it. If anything it would just be what a new expansion could be about, and it would effect lands previously untraveled. Either that or window dressing.

[IntrovertAnt]

I've seen it a few times now from interviews with Yoshida, and it could just be a joke he likes but it seems more recent to reference (or perhaps I only noticed it now), but he keeps mentioning things like maybe FFXIV might need another dalamud, summoning the meteor again, Hydaelyn Kick, and I feel a few times more but can't recall enough to reference.. but if someone knows cool lol.

Do you think he's slyly hinting at a huge event to come? Or just a use of language that's fun because eh why not?

I actually really hope so. It would be well within what a FF game would do (thinking world of ruin from FFVI). Also, considering this games transition to 2.0 everyone's well aware how a disaster can bring people together for a common goal or experience.

Since this game has a story line that has an ending arch, I'm hoping that there is something planned for the finale or just before it. The fact that this game is said to have giant story arch and that the devs are planning on ending the game eventually (instead of keeping it going forever with no end) leads me to believe that there will be a finale, and finale's should always be big.