Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
[FFXI] did have one expansion that involved time travel. It had you go back in time to the Crystal war which was set 20 years before the events of FFXI to help protect the events that lead to your timeline from villains trying to alter the future.

In FFXI the Crystal war is something we only hear about in the main game and is referenced a lot in how the world was shaped and the events that happen in the base story. So being able to go back and see those events unfold in person was interesting. But in FFXIV the only comparable thing is the seventh umbral calamity, which was 1.x. So unless they wanted to remake 1.x (which I wouldn’t be entirely against) there isn’t much else that’s worth going back and seeing for ourselves in FFXIV when we could be going somewhere new.
This is inaccurate. I've played the entire story of Wings of the Goddess. It's an alternate universe in which the Crystal War never ended, so the events play out differently. There are different characters who never mattered in the main timeline, and none of the events you take part in change anything that happen in present day Vana'diel.

FFXIV can't actually give us any meaningful travel to the past, either. What would we be able to do? Nothing that could change the shape of how the game plays out for everyone playing through 2.0+

Which means nothing at all worth noting.