Quote Originally Posted by Payadopa View Post
Very true. But we also got Ivalice so I don't see why it wouldn't work in that sense. The geography thing is true but nothing a cataclysm can't fix. They are the writers, they can do whatever they please. We will see.
The distinction is that we didn’t get THE Ivalice that we’ve already been to and that all the games are from. We got a representation of it that fits into FFXIV’s world. Even then and even as a giant Ivalice fan, I didn’t like shoving whole swaths of one world into another setting and then having to change whole sections of the story like Ashe and Rasler being twins instead of husband and wife since Nabradia doesn’t exist in FFXIV.

We already know how the 5 races came about in Vana’diel and they also had their own versions of Ancients in the Zilart/Kuluu. It also had its own parallel worlds/timelines and lore and it would be disappointing to take all of that and 20 years of the game just to say “actually it’s been just a shard of the Source this entire time and Altana and Promathia are actually just Hydaelyn and Zodiark”.

There’s already precedence in events for FF character teleporting between worlds and I’d prefer that over it simply being a shard or Windurst being randomly inserted at the tip of Tural. Like someone said, the devs already said the shards aren’t other FF worlds and I don’t see why they’d backtrack on that now. As a past FFXI player, I’m interested in the new raid, but cautious about how it will be implemented and I don’t want them to ruin both games.