Crossover events and breaking immersion

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I am fine with short events because we already have so much silly stuff in the game that a few more mounts and pets dont make a difference..I am 100% not a fan of all these fanservice raids, especially the new Nier one..that is imo another whole level of immersion breaking..

Imagine if they did a pokemon raid or something like that. I really wish that these big raids would be unique new stuff..the game is already fanservice enough but seemingly even just three expansions in we already need outside content for that..feels like they are out of ideas already.

To me, due to the history, lore, magic, and technology presented to us in the realms from the Allagans (Ultima Weapon, Omega, Crystal Tower), Mhach (Void Ark), etc., and whatever advanced societies may have been consumed by light in Norvrandt (Eden). And technically they've done everything within the realm of possibility given the FF universe's brands of magic and technology (because these "fanservice raids" are just a small chunk of all the fanservice presented to us throughout the entire game since 2.0).

The more permanent additions, like the aforementioned fanservice raids, with ties to past games or other franchises have been more or less changed and/or repurposed to fit into the game's lore so I'm not sure why it's breaking your immersion. We have Crystal Tower from 2.XX, which is from FF3, pulls a lot of lore from 3 and mixes it with Allagan. Eureka is from FF3 as well, and Hydaelyn's version has ties to XI as far as I can tell (i didn't do much Eureka in SB, but Absolute Virtue is in there :P). Ivalice/Dalmasca is direct references made into a nation/region by the name and is resisting the Garleans with an FFXII style (and names/characters being pulled from the Ivalice games), with much of the old lore of the region being heavily inspired/taken from FTT. Eden taken from FF8, but apart from the direct references to 8 the quests have been in line with Norvrandt's history as far as we know (flood of light and what have you).

Nier Automata stuff is admittedly hard to justify though, unless Yoko Taro is seriously making it canon to the Nier/Drakengard lore. But at the same time it can be chucked in with the "we don't know Norvrandt's history/tech" pile since Eden is a thing.

For me they tie in these things well enough that it fits the universe they created, even if there may be some holes here and there.