Quote Originally Posted by RopeDrink View Post
So have all the others to a degree, even MHW, where Behemoth is a permanent feature, yet neither is going to influence the other further.
Notic and other FF events are mostly one time stuff that may or may not even be canon. They are not fixed or have a whole raid for them. The monster hunter monster can at least be seen as something which come from far away, the only thing that looks out of place are the cats. The same for Behemoth in MHW. Its just one monster. As far as I know they did not introduce our races or our history into the game, just one monster and armor for it.

Ivalice or the crystal towers are also retellings of a story. They at least tried to give them a place in the world that fits. Crystal tower now even being an important plot point, so we cant just say that these things might never get important. I still find too much cameos meh so Ivalice was not my favorite raid (just like I did not like Omega) but Nier is much worse than that.

1. Not a FF title and not even a SE title.
2. Permanent addition to the game by being a raid. Like Ivalice it now has a fixed place in the FF14 world.
3. Yoko says that what happens in the raid is now canon to Nier, which in turn means that Nier is also canon for FF14. We dont get a retelling or one monster/character from another game, we get whole worlds and lore..

Even the lore bits we can gather afterwards are making (imo) no sense at all if you are not a Nier fan. They too are nothing to give us an understanding of its place, they are fanservice.

Right now I feel like they dont even try to connect it to the game. This factory is just there, nobody really cares that seemingly there are human looking androids running around. I hope that this really gets better and that they at least try to explain things.