Collaboration for FFXI's 20th anniversary

[Vespar]

Nothing short of remaking FFXI in a similar design scheme to FFXIV could make me go back to it.
I had many many fun years there, but I just cant go back to it the way it is now.

I dont mind collabs with XIV, but I'd hope it would be a pretty iconic gear set or something from XI to really make it memorable.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

I'd love a condensed version of the FFXI storyline as something in the game- maybe as some sort of side zone or raid. This is prob the ony FF game I'll never end up playing, but if it has a good story I'd like to experience it.

[RyuDragnier]

I'd love a condensed version of the FFXI storyline as something in the game- maybe as some sort of side zone or raid. This is prob the ony FF game I'll never end up playing, but if it has a good story I'd like to experience it.

Problem with that is that FFXI's story is more like random adventures, with each expansion's storyline being its own thing. There's very little crossover between them. Think multiple expansions of stories like the Void Ark raids. That's basically every FFXI expansion in a sense, self-contained.

[Artemiz]

Problem with that is that FFXI's story is more like random adventures, with each expansion's storyline being its own thing. There's very little crossover between them. Think multiple expansions of stories like the Void Ark raids. That's basically every FFXI expansion in a sense, self-contained.

This is very true but imagine how awesome it would be if we got a CoP raid series in FFXIV? It was by far the most popular expansion in FFXI and I think would make a great cross over. We could also just have an XI raid series in this game, first raid is Sky theme, 2nd one is Sea and 3rd is Abyssea or maybe RoV...... I would love something like that. The drops could be designed to suit the original aesthetic. Homam gear for my PLD...... yes, I want that very much.

[Warlyx]

This is very true but imagine how awesome it would be if we got a CoP raid series in FFXIV? It was by far the most popular expansion in FFXI and I think would make a great cross over. We could also just have an XI raid series in this game, first raid is Sky theme, 2nd one is Sea and 3rd is Abyssea or maybe RoV...... I would love something like that. The drops could be designed to suit the original aesthetic. Homam gear for my PLD...... yes, I want that very much.

we kinda got some in Eureka


u know guys what would be cool?


Shadowbringers 5.0 spoiler

Vanadiel being one of the shards ! and traveling there!

[Nestama]

Pretty sure there's no chance of XI's Vana'diel being one of the shards due to how Rhapsodies' story is told and also due to how it has its own Gods that created the five playable races: Altana and Promathia.

[Con_Carne]

Well, not exactly the Vana'diel from XI, but perhaps a rewritten version of XIV as one of the Shards... just like we got a rewritten version of Dalmasca as a Source's region. Though I don't know so much about Vana'diel since I only played the trial (I'd wish it had unlimited days for play like XIV trial). I only visited Gustaberg (¿and I think Zadnor gave me feelings of that environment?).

[Enkidoh]

It should be obvious by now that the Shards are not other FF worlds (if that was the case, the First would be FFI's world, World A), so there is absolutely zero chance of seeing Vana'diel appear in such a way. The Shards are just literal copies of Hydaelyn where things turned out slightly differently, but still feature the same basic world map as Hydaelyn (Norvrandt's map resembled the Eorzea map quite closely if it was superimposed over it, and even it's landforms were similar to Eorzea.

Besides, Eureka is already basically the 'FFXI-inspired' zone in the game for better or for worse - it features FFXI music tracks, iconic FFXI gear like the Vermillion Robe and FFXI race minions as drops, and a number of FFXI enemies, including none other than the infamous Absolute Virtue as bosses. And it attempted to emulate FFXI's gameplay as well, with mechanics like losing EXP as a death penalty, the elemental wheel, NMs spawning under certain conditions such as certain amount of enemies killed, and having to party to do anything. Of course there has never been any zone in FFXI actually called Eureka (the name is actually taken from a dungeon in FFIII), and the landscape and story are FFXIV lore specific, but it's still clearly meant to be FFXIV's tribute to FFXI.

So I do not see SE adding any further 'FFXI-based' areas I'm afraid.