Please remake 1.0 in New Game+

[Packetdancer]

Eh it was confirmed by ferne that during 1.0 we did go to the past but we weren't doing a butterfly effect. It's how in the 30 alchemist quest we brought the elixir that we had made in the echo by someone to the kid that kept passing out and then the flower we got from the Gobbue in the Flowers for All intro for 1.0 Ul'dah..

Yeah, the (as I have called it before) "Very Unfortunate Goobbue Incident" in Ul'dah took place 10 years prior to 1.x starting, date-wise, but also functioned as the Ul'dah opening storyline; if I remember right, you looked up, saw a meteor shower, heard Hydaelyn speak and immediately went FLOOP back 10 years in time and didn't even initially realize you had jumped back in time, just sort of went "Oh hey, there's a parade going on?"

(I did start in Ul'dah in 1.x, but it's been, y'know, a decade, so I may be misremembering some of the details.)

While I don't think they've outright retconned (or contradicted) any of the weird stuff the Echo allowed in 1.x, they sure also haven't gone back to touch on it; they've kept the Echo to a much more narrowly-defined powerset in A Realm Reborn and onwards. And I do think if you had the 1.x storyline accessible in the current game somehow (impractical as I believe that to be), you'd have a lot of questions about the Echo arise. Especially for anyone whose 1.x re-enactment began in Ul'dah.

That flavor even made it into ARR actually! If you remember the scene where we handed Cid his goggles which confused many a lore forum poster at the time and is still brought up from time to time.

You know, it's been so long since I played through that piece of story I had completely forgotten about that. But you're right, there is at least one instance of us doing this same sort of Echo-powered shenanigan even post-ARR.