What exactely happens in the Alliance Raids of Stormblood?

[Yuella]

The alliance raid in Shadowbringers feels even more out of place

[Gula]

The alliance raid in Shadowbringers feels even more out of place

Ironworks says hi from the entire Omega raid.

[Hazama999]

Ironworks says hi from the entire Omega raid.

Well, at least the Omega raid tiers took place in the Interdimensional Rift. The story was contrived such that Omega could lay it thiccccc with the fanservice in a place where anything could happen... This is as opposed to "if you walk around this rock here you might just find 2B and 9S fighting Adam and Eve." Which is the feeling I get from the YoRha raid.

[Jirah]

The alliance raid in Shadowbringers feels even more out of place

of course it is as its from another bloody franchise. cant wait for te yo kai 24 man raids that consume a entire expansion full of 24 man raids. honestly id rather just have a instance than neir taking over shb ONLY raids like this

[Monsalvato]

The alliance raid in Shadowbringers feels even more out of place

I just did the first part of this new raid and... it's incredibly beautiful, I didn't know where to lay my lustful gaze.
Fights were interesting and challenging (for a noob like me) too.

With that said, I have to agree it feels terribly out of place, even more so than the contrived homage to Ivalice in Stormblood.
It's... I dunno, I have mixed feelings.
On one hand I love the fanservice and the depth they went to to show their love for Automata.
On the other hand... this is way beyond what a fanservice should be. Make it some side quests, limited event, special fates, whatever, but a whole raid is way too much.
With such a rich, beautiful lore that doesn't wait anything else than someone who wants to delve deeper into it, they really don't have to resort to such cheap tricks to attract people imho.

It truly, truly feels completely out of place.
Shame because it's really beautiful :-(

This is even worse than Stormblood, damn.




Oh and yeah I agree about the Omega thing. There was a loose explanation there, an interdimensional rift and so on.
Excuse? Maybe, but it fit into the FFXIV lore much better, while also allowing the dev teams for a plethora of fanservice looking back to old FF games.
I mean that was an acceptable compromise if you ask me.
Ivalice in SB and especially NieR in ShB? Way beyond acceptability, in my humble opinion.