The expansion on the horizon

[MikkoAkure]

You do know that if they use Australia as a visual aid for how the place would be, it would be pretty varied, right?

Australia wasn’t blasted to oblivion via magical warfare by an evil magitechnical empire with an undead army on one side and the summon of a fully unleashed Bahamut along with multiple other eikons on the other. Australia also has some green on it from space, where Meracydia seemingly does not. Meracydia is the way it is because it was rendered that way by unnatural means.

The book says the landscape was blasted into a wasteland and while we don’t know how well it recovered, so far our view from space and the 1 concept art we have say “not very well”.


Meracydia seems to borrow more from the Sahara more than Australia anyway since it has things from Egyptian culture beyond just the fauna.


Either way, while they could turn around and make it more full of life and varied scenery and that would be nice, I’m going off what little we know instead of hopium. The other issue to get around is the hostile native population. I don’t see us unlocking the city at the very beginning of the expansion unless something happens in 6.5 that causes them to suddenly accept outsiders or we go in with an adventurer colony like Monster Hunter World.

I would also hope the story of whatever expansion we get can actually stand on its own and isn’t formed by the leavings of dangling plot threads from an older expansion. They managed that with Shadowbringers, but it doesn’t mean they should do it again and the moments Endwalker’s story lost me were the times when it was trying to be more like Shadowbringers. I was under the impression that the whole point of Endwalker was to completely end any plot threads so they can start completely over anyway.

If I never have to deal with the Allagan Empire’s leftovers again, it will still be too soon.

Either way, I'm sure we'll have a lot more information in a few weeks, as 6.4 will likely be the set-up leading into the next expansion announcement.

Not happening this time, per Yoshi-P, so we have more time to figure out what the direction will be.

6.x will change somewhat from the usual pattern of .1-.3 wrapping up the old storyline and .4-.5 setting up the next expansion. He says we can expect to start seeing signs of the direction of 7.0 in 6.5.