I’m intentionally keeping my expectations neutral but this continent is being made by the resources freed up by not doing another Eureka or Boja.

What that ends up as is unknown as the devs are being unusually quiet on this and that is the source of the unwanted expectations they are trying to control.

The hype is a monster of their own making by not managing the players expectations. A sentence here and there and the same old artwork graphic is going to cause peoples imagination to go wild.

The only reason I can think that the management of expectations has gotten so out of control is because so many of the veteran devs are doing FFXVI. They are also doing very little media interviews in comparison to the past.

Hopefully XVI getting released will help things out in XIV, they are stretched out way too far.