Quote Originally Posted by EirolOcarrol View Post
This and Kugane are my favourite areas. I hope that those who are critical of Stormblood in general wouldn't be against more Far Eastern content.

I really hope that after Endwalkers wraps up, we get another expansion in the Far East. Perhaps a Hingashi expansion with a lot of extra content added for Yanxia/Doma, Nagxia, and Azim Steppe. I've been playing a lot of Genshin Impact lately, and felt there are even many aspects of Chinese culture still unrepresented in Liyue. Such as a lack of Hanfu. For those who love the flowy robe look of Kimono and Hanbok, various styles of Hanfu are very similar. Yet there aren't too many video games that feature Hanfu on characters. Even Liyue people in Genshin Impact. To say nothing of the lack of representation in Final Fantasy XIV.

Yanxia is ostensibly a fusion of Japanese culture inside Mainland China. Being a fantasy setting, lots of cultures have been fused in Final Fantasy XIV. I don't think there's anything at all wrong with that. And many aspects of Japanese culture came from Tang Dynasty China. But it would be nice to see more aspects of East Asian cultures feature here. More Chinese names, both Han and those of other ethnic backgrounds like Manchu, Han, ect. An Austronesian area with Gamelan music(I'm sure Hiroki Kikuta would be happy to provide, he's made Gamelan music before). And some Korean inspiration as well.

I think more exploration of Yanxia, Nagxia, Hingashi, and the surrounding areas, would be a great excuse to explore not only them more, but represent more of Asian culture in general.

I don't want them to suddenly take away Doma Ninja and Samurai. Or have less characters with Japanese names, as is the trend they've started. But there's no one named, say, Qiqi, Yaoyao, Xiangling, Xingqiu, Keqing, Zhongli, Hu Tao, Ningguang or Beidou in Final Fantasy XIV. A few names like that here or there would be nice. Names of Han, Hmong, Hui, Uyghur, Manchu, and also Korean would be nice.

And I'm sure there's also reason in recent expansions like Endwalkers for Hingashi to open up, in the future. That region can stay as Japanese as it's been so far!
Most people I've talked to, who are critical about SB, are critical because there wasn't enough Gyr Abanian content AND not enough Othardian content.
Both SB regions are in desperate need of a more focused revisit.