Ready for Nier Dark Apocalypse?

[Renato]

You keep saying this but I haven't seen any reason to accept your conclusion. Sorry, but you're going to have to show me some evidence of that when they already said that you don't have to play Nier to enjoy Yorha.

Yoshida literally says something along the line of, "If you've finished the 5.0 MSQ, I strongly suggest buying Nier to/for better appreciate/better understanding" (roughly translated) during the most recent liveletter. I wish I could find the clip of it but there aren't many translated streams or logs from the LL and I don't feel like going through it trying to find it. Yoko Taro at the same time also mentions that he wanted to create a collaboration that fans of both worlds can enjoy but don't really need to have prior experience to enjoy.

I dont see how a Nier-inspired setting cant fit into FFXIV

I've always hated this argument. Not only just with Nier but with any game that people enjoy and want to for some reason want to see in FFXIV. FFXIV has a lot of different themes that could easily integrate with other games but just because it does isn't an invitation to just throw every damn character or game world into FFXIV. And that's ultimately my issue with this whole collaboration. The need to literally pull in a totally different game franchise into this game is highly unecessary. It's like someone mentioned earlier in the thread, the 24-man raids aren't just fluff. They affect the rest of the game going forward in some way or form. If I wanted to play Nier, I'd play Nier. I personally don't care to see it in FFXIV.

And that's the difference between the canon and non-canon collabs. The non-canon ones could be dismissed, never to be seen if you don't want to do them and after the event is over, you can go back to your normal FFXIV activities. Ivalice is canon to the story and has already impacted the game. Viera exist, some of the events of FFT happened (although slightly altered)...Same thing will happen with Nier.