Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
It's definitely a reference to Vagrant Story. Really wish they'd bring back Matsuno for a raid series dealing with Lea Monde.
Please no.

I never played NieR so the NieR raids, while spectacles, were meaningless to me. They didn't tie the white powder into the Sin Eaters, they didn't do any connection between the worlds, nothing. It was a side story that apparently said something to NieR players, but had no ties in the FFXIV world and thus were meaningless to us here other than "Oh, we saved the world again...I think? Wasn't really clear on who we were fighting, why, if they were a threat, or what kind of threat they were, or even they even were at all. And what happened to the Dwarf at the end? Oh, right, he just left and we never hear from him again. Oh, what's that? That's just how Yoko Taro writes his stories? Well, guess I'm never playing any game he writes, then, because that sucks."

I'd much rather something like Ivalice which actually exists in FFXIV and is RELEVANT to the events in FFXIV and even later events (like the Bozja Resistance). Crystal Tower tied into FFXIV's history/lore with the Allegans and (even if you want to say it was a retcon later) into ShB, Shadows of Mhach again tied into the game's lore (5th Era) closed out the Diablos story from the Amdapor dungeons and arguably also foreshadowed the future (6.1-6.4), and Ivalice I already mentioned, but it build into more lore related to the world/map and Garlemald, and of course into the Bozjan Resistance and arguably the fall of Garlemald.

What did the NeiR raids play into?

LITERALLY nothing.

If they're going to do crossovers, they need to be relevant to FFXIV's world and players, not only people that played that other game.