What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[MikkoAkure]

All I know is I'd rather be living the alternate timeline where Bozja wasn't ended prematurely and we received its Dalmasca arc complete with more FFXII and Ivalice themed outfits. Far as I'm concerned this expansion has permanently soured me on anything Hildibrand-related. If I had to choose between having a joke of a game and a one that takes itself seriously then the choice is obvious.

Bozja ended in patch 5.55. Were they supposed to keep going and invent x.6 patch just to satisfy you?

Bozja ends with Bozja being liberated. There's literally nothing more to do in Bozja with it being in the last patch of ShB and there wasn't any room to add more if there was any. Matsuno even said the Bozja part is finished.

The treatment of Ivalice is another instance where I wish we could know everything about what went on behind the scenes. While I personally have never been in love with Ivalice and its storylines in FFXIV, ShB ending its whole story unceremoniously in field notes was… certainly… something. Just another questionable story-telling decision in ShB patches that foretold the mess that was coming.

We already know some of the behind the scenes.

Yoshi-P and Matsuno said in an interview that the field notes weren't written in a panic and that was the intention. What probably wasn't the intention was not continuing the story. But from what Matsuno has said on twitter and in the interview, it seems that a combination of factors from the storyline not being well liked in Japan (the vague part we don't know), covid, and the idea that players are exhausted of war stories led to the story being left on "to be continued". Matsuno doesn't want a war of liberation arc for Dalmasca so we're not going to get it.

They've already said what the story would be like if they come back to it, and it would be similar to the first part of Bozja with a solo-playthrough and a trial.

[Midareyukki]

Bozja ended in patch 5.55. Were they supposed to keep going and invent x.6 patch just to satisfy you?

Bozja ends with Bozja being liberated. There's literally nothing more to do in Bozja with it being in the last patch of ShB and there wasn't any room to add more if there was any. Matsuno even said the Bozja part is finished.

In fairness, the plotline of Bozja continues in the Field Notes. It does not end in the cutscenes. The arc does, but the story doesn't.

Pagaga and Lyon walk around.
No word on Clarricie afaik.
Sicinius is scott free after Lyon broke him out of Dalmasca.
Gabranth "dies" but gets transplanted onto a clone. To the public, the death is staged as Lyon having murdered him.
Zero consequences for pretty much everyone that wasn't Menenius.

All of those characters save for Gabranth got introduced in Bozja proper and had a major role there. Gabranth was introduced in the preceeding arc, the Ivalice Raids, but has more development in Bozja than he ever does in Ivalice.

And right now it's left open-ended, with Gabranth musing on how he expected Bajsaljen to make the Bozjan constitution in the same vein as the Garlean rule and his own ideals (with maybe a lot less murder), and being seen walking around in Dalmasca despite being considered dead.

There's no closure due to that. They did say that if they ever came back to this story, it'd feature Dalmasca, however.

[Atelier-Bagur]

In fairness, the plotline of Bozja continues in the Field Notes. It does not end in the cutscenes. The arc does, but the story doesn't.

Pagaga and Lyon walk around.
No word on Clarricie afaik.
Sicinius is scott free after Lyon broke him out of Dalmasca.
Gabranth "dies" but gets transplanted onto a clone. To the public, the death is staged as Lyon having murdered him.
Zero consequences for pretty much everyone that wasn't Menenius.

All of those characters save for Gabranth got introduced in Bozja proper and had a major role there. Gabranth was introduced in the preceeding arc, the Ivalice Raids, but has more development in Bozja than he ever does in Ivalice.

And right now it's left open-ended, with Gabranth musing on how he expected Bajsaljen to make the Bozjan constitution in the same vein as the Garlean rule and his own ideals (with maybe a lot less murder), and being seen walking around in Dalmasca despite being considered dead.

There's no closure due to that. They did say that if they ever came back to this story, it'd feature Dalmasca, however.

and honestly they should hold on to that sorta not sorta promise. It really sucks how Bozja ended prematurely

[Midareyukki]

and honestly they should hold on to that sorta not sorta promise. It really sucks how Bozja ended prematurely

Likely happened due to the Pandemic :T We know they intended for at least one more instance, so some stuff had to be cut back. How much of it actually was and how much of it got relegated to the Field Notes we don't know, of course.

I just wonder about that weird hole left with Gabranth's future. Because it's okay if they leave it at that imo... but they do point out that Gabranth is being spotted around in Dalmasca. Is he a free man? Is he plotting something?

That and my only personal wish is bringing justice against Sicinius, but that in itself really would require a fair bit "more" out of them.

Regardless o: Whether they will or won't come back to this story and set it in Dalmasca, they did say it wouldn't be anywhere during 6.0. So we shouldn't be expecting anything further in this cycle.