Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard319 View Post
ooh concept art, that's all it is: Concept, as in not final product and subject to change. I will concede, that it suggests that at least one aetherite in La Noscea may wind up a floating mountain a'la Avatar, but it doesn't mean that all of them are. (because then you people would be screaming over copy-pasted terrain.)
Generally concept art shown to players is concept art that is to be used for something, and concept art is what everything modeled and visual about a game is based on. These guys don't just go into Z brush or Mudbox and start crapping out random monsters until something looks good, they model from the concept art down to the T. If it's in the concept artwork and was shown to us it's extremely valid, and from what I have been told the Japanese text on the picture states that the meteor interacts with and deactivates many of the crystals.