Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
As a theme park, it is not constrained by what kind of "rides" it wants to feature. Disneyland can feature many attractions that Disney owns even if they're not originally created by Disney. FFXIV, as a theme park MMORPG, does not have to strick to the FF franchise for inspirations of its contents, regardless of the type of content, but especially for non-MSQ, which are still side contents even if they may be a main attraction.

Well, you know, that's just how canon works. The author of the canon decides what is canon. And as you've said, alliance raid is a "main content." It doesn't automatically become not canon just because there are guest creators brought in to help develop it unless otherwise stated.
It doesn't have to stick to the FF franchise BUT this is the "main course" : one of the main purpose.
And I see you consider anything else but the MSQ as side content ? You don't consider Raids (8 and 24) as part of main content ?

Also, anything added not "fitting" the FF franchise is good as long as it sticks to "side content" (that's the way I feel about this).
I see "side content" more like "bonus content" if you prefer : something added to the game but not "part of the main elements brought by the expansion".

I don't know much about what has been said in interviews/faq, but as a wild guess, I don't really think they put Nier as raid because Nier is canon to the FF universe (if that's what you imply)
I think they put Nier as a Raid because they wanted to bring a lot of stuff for this collab, and didn't fit into a simple duty/trial. so they brought that phat *ss and crushed the slot allocated for "ShB Raids".