Final Fantasy XIV Cataclysm

[Colt47]

I was just thinking about this whole thing that happened when flying was added to the old world in WoW and how they are going to fix the original games story to make it more streamlined.

To reach Zodiark, all the shards have to be recombined into one. We are on the first and I've got a feeling that something cataclysmic will happen that results in the prerequisite for Zodiark to be unlocked to occur, meaning we could see the revamp to the old world in FFXIV 6.0.

Anyone else think that they might pull something like catacylsm in FFXIV with the old world? Have the first come crashing back and we return to see a very different world than before?

Edit: Going to clarify I'm talking about the idea of redoing old zones to allow flight as a part of condensing the older ARR story. It seems like it would make sense that they'd do both things, hence my comparison to WoW Cataclysm where they scorched earthed the entire old world for a new set of starter zones.

[Hypnotic13371337]

We already did have something like that??? The Calamity. Though, rather than bringing flying back to the old zones, we got.......JUMPING

[VenKitsune]

We've already had the calamity, having another one just as an excuse to screw up old areas and add flying would be poor storytelling - They'd need to do something else.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

The only reason I'd expect another calamity is if they were re releasing the game with a complete graphical overhaul. One that would bring it into a more modern appearance. If they're not reworking it onto a new graphics engine or having a rebuild of it without all its spaghetti code, then there's little reason to blow it all up again. Especially not for adding flying to old areas.

[AngelCheese77]

And might want to put some of that first post under spoiler tags .... FYI

[Gemina]

You know how in some RPG games, you can acquire this super powerful item, but you don't ever use it because you can only use it once?

Yoshi used it.

[linay]

The only reason I'd expect another calamity is if they were re releasing the game with a complete graphical overhaul. One that would bring it into a more modern appearance. If they're not reworking it onto a new graphics engine or having a rebuild of it without all its spaghetti code, then there's little reason to blow it all up again. Especially not for adding flying to old areas.

That wouldn't need a calamity either. A calamity is only needed if you want to change the zone drastically, and a graphical overhaul changes the appearance of the zone without necessarily changing the zone itself. (Of course, even changing the zone only requires a calamity if you want to acknowledge the change in the lore. They can always do a retcon and just say the new zone has always been that way.)

[Granyala]

Uuh no thanks.
1) ARR zones are tiny. Flight would be nonsensical.
2) I'd rather not have that much DEV effort spent on re designing old content.
3) A rejoining of all remaining worlds would basically eradicate all life as we know it on the source.

[Colt47]

Uuh no thanks.
1) ARR zones are tiny. Flight would be nonsensical.
2) I'd rather not have that much DEV effort spent on re designing old content.
3) A rejoining of all remaining worlds would basically eradicate all life as we know it on the source.

Oh yeah, I think the old zones are too tiny to have flying right now. Supposedly some barriers were being introduced in the old zones for flying, so I was thinking about what they might do to expand those areas such that flying actually makes sense. If they combined certain small zones into bigger zones it would make sense that they would have flight barriers. They might also be opening up more space like the floating city of Nym over in La Noscea.

Case in point, when I was saying cataclysm I probably should have specified that I meant the aspect of redoing the older zones to allow flight as a part of condensing the original story experience.

[SamRF]

We'll probably just see a new FF MMO in forseeable future. I doubt they plan on remaining with FFXIV for very long. 2 more expansions before new game would be my guess. FF11 also ended when it was still very popular it seems.