Narrative Exploration: A Garlemald Expansion

[SaitoHikari]

Hmm, I dug a bit further and found an interview from a year and a half ago that seems to restore some hope. People generally think the Bozja storyline got abandoned due to internal drama with Matsuno along with running out of time, but it looks more like there's going to be an actual follow-up planned for later. Matsuno saying that the storyline got put on indefinite hold could have been a case of Endwalker accelerating the story to the point where it's better to off-screen the actual war part + NDA stuff stopping him from revealing more that also had details lost in translation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...no_and_yoship/

On second thought, I'm not sure we're actually going across the seas anymore. The 13th shard storyline is getting the 'going to another shard' part out of the way for the time being, and there's been absolutely nothing pulling us in the direction of sailing overseas other than an assumption that we're going to just because we're at the end of the first major story arc. Given that 6.4 is going to be focused on ending the 13th shard story, and that we'll likely just have 1-2 patches remaining in the Endwalker series (we're most likely going to get a 6.6 patch comprised of more plot setup and technical things like the graphical update, because the next expansion is most likely Spring/Summer 2024 and there's no way in hell they're going to make us wait a whole ~8-9 months after the estimated release window of 6.5), it's unreasonable to expect an entire new area before the next expansion.

So we're probably going to at least start the next expansion uncovering that cloud cover in the center of our current world map.