The Future Expansion; What is the possibility?

[MikkoAkure]

Which is the reason why I think our next place to go (as long as we speak about the Source) will be either the continent of our Bluemages -- since we had not yet Beasttribe-quests of the Mamool Ja, it would make sense -- or perhaps the so-very-often referenced Dalmasca.

(I can only speak for German dub, but in 2.0 Nero shoots a spy from Dalmasca, so the bait is at least for me very old.)

We've already been to Dalmasca for an entire 24-person raid series and now the relic quest, which is based around fighting the bad guy controlling Dalmasca.

I can see us going to Ilsabard/Garlemald in the next expansion. Story elements have been put into place that make me feel like they're setting it up so that Garlemald could be a future city in the same way Ishgard and Kugane are (hopefully not a repeat of Ala Mhigo though). Unless something big happens, the story already looks almost over for the bad guys and I think that's a good thing. I'm starting to get tired from everything being Garleans/Ascians/Allagans and we need something new. FFXI's first 2 expansions continued the main storyline and then ended it in a good way, before moving on to an expansion that was completely different on the other side of the world with not much connecting it to the original MSQ story. Then an expansion that brought us back to the MSQ in a sort of tangential way by going back into the past, and then another expansion of something completely different. The story doesn't have to end with us beating the original bad guys.

[MelodyCrystel]

We've already been to Dalmasca for an entire 24-person raid series and now the relic quest, which is based around fighting the bad guy controlling Dalmasca.

Literally three big dungeons and a limited beach is for you the same as having a few expansion-areas one can freely explore, yes? :<

[MikkoAkure]

Literally three big dungeons and a limited beach is for you the same as having a few expansion-areas one can freely explore, yes? :<

Don't get me wrong, Ivalice is my thing and I wouldn't ever leave Dalmasca if it was a future expansion. It just doesn't make any sense according to the narrative. 3 of the cities we have seen so far (Rabanastre, Bozja, Valnain) are in various degrees of being ruined and the big bad guy of the area is the main bad guy of an existing quest line where he will (probably) meet his doom.

If Ilsabard is a future expansion, I would hope that at least the Dalmascan Westersands shows up, but Ilsabard is a huge place and the Westersands are in Othard so who knows..