A few complaints about the NieR Raid rewards on Part 3

[ItMe]

There was no effort to really integrate it, it felt welded on. Where as with Ivalice, they reworked the history and lore of it from the other games to make it fit into FFXIV's setting, they didn't just have Ramza show up through a portal and help us fight some bad guys before peacing out.

But reworking the history to reestablish it in FF14's setting led to the longest cutscenes as they had to exposit what THIS version of Ivalice was, and where it slots into FF14's history. Which would be fine... if any of it mattered to FF14.
In the Neir raids, despite the story showing up through a portal before peacing out, you at least see how the story impacts the dwarves. ut in the Ivalice raids... it doesn't really go anywhere and it takes a looooong time to do it.

[TaleraRistain]

But reworking the history to reestablish it in FF14's setting led to the longest cutscenes as they had to exposit what THIS version of Ivalice was, and where it slots into FF14's history. Which would be fine... if any of it mattered to FF14.
In the Neir raids, despite the story showing up through a portal before peacing out, you at least see how the story impacts the dwarves. ut in the Ivalice raids... it doesn't really go anywhere and it takes a looooong time to do it.

It does matter to XIV. Dalmasca is near Bozja and there are a lot of hints it's going to play into the story in the future. I haven't even finished the Bozja story but I could see the tendrils beginning even with what I did.

[ItMe]

It does matter to XIV. [...] there are a lot of hints it's going to play into the story in the future.

Then it does not matter, but maybe it will in the future.
Crystal Tower becoming mandatory story prog showed me anything is possible.