Dear SE

[LisSquid]

I am in the same boat as OP. I have many friends who are now super into Nier, and have been dragged into watching the stage plays with them. My saltiness over missing out on FFXIV story for an entire alliance raid tier has colored any interest I could have had in the title. The Monster Hunter crossover was fun and fine, and I even tried the game proper for it! However, following up the Ivalice raids with something so detached from the FF title just made me very grumpy.

[Bright-Flower]

I am in the same boat as OP. I have many friends who are now super into Nier, and have been dragged into watching the stage plays with them. My saltiness over missing out on FFXIV story for an entire alliance raid tier has colored any interest I could have had in the title. The Monster Hunter crossover was fun and fine, and I even tried the game proper for it! However, following up the Ivalice raids with something so detached from the FF title just made me very grumpy.

As someone who does like Nier I can agree with that sentiment.

I'm fine with them doing a Nier set of raids. Not with how little effort went into the story of it. Instead of incorporating it into the setting like they did with Ivalice they just said 'oh they came from another world by a portal I guess' and that's that.

Nier isn't even too weird a thing to have incorporated. We have Omega, a hyper intelligent machine from another world that crashed here and whose technology shaped a major empire. THey didn't have to go with the lazy crossover event default plot for a series of three raids and a story spanning five patches.

[LisSquid]

As someone who does like Nier I can agree with that sentiment.

I'm fine with them doing a Nier set of raids. Not with how little effort went into the story of it. Instead of incorporating it into the setting like they did with Ivalice they just said 'oh they came from another world by a portal I guess' and that's that.

Nier isn't even too weird a thing to have incorporated. We have Omega, a hyper intelligent machine from another world that crashed here and whose technology shaped a major empire. THey didn't have to go with the lazy crossover event default plot for a series of three raids and a story spanning five patches.

That's definitely my critique. It wasn't that it was a crossover, but it added literally nothing to the world. The Crystal Tower alliance raid was a crossover, and we ended up getting an entire expansion story out of it! They shouldn't be just contained stories, and after that level of narrative embedding I'm sleeping on Nier.