MrHappy's FFXI Event - March of Vana'diel

[hobostew]

Man I can't say I'm looking forward to that alliance raid at all given how the nier/ivalice stuff went. Cause I sure as sh** not shelling out an extra $45 bucks so I can understand whats going on.

[Boblawblah]

Man I can't say I'm looking forward to that alliance raid at all given how the nier/ivalice stuff went. Cause I sure as sh** not shelling out an extra $45 bucks so I can understand whats going on.

Yea, it'll definitely be another one I just don't bother unlocking, I'm not paying a sub for another game's story.

[Jeeqbit]

Yea, it'll definitely be another one I just don't bother unlocking, I'm not paying a sub for another game's story.

Man I can't say I'm looking forward to that alliance raid at all given how the nier/ivalice stuff went. Cause I sure as sh** not shelling out an extra $45 bucks so I can understand whats going on.

Alright, sure, I didn't really understand those stories that well, but the raids themselves were great and I enjoyed them all.

Hopefully they will do a better job of integrating FFXI story into this game so that you don't have to play it. Remember that FFXIV is a themepark that takes inspiration from all the FF games so they do this regularly anyway, like the Endwalker trials.

[Boblawblah]

Alright, sure, I didn't really understand those stories that well, but the raids themselves were great and I enjoyed them all.

Hopefully they will do a better job of integrating FFXI story into this game so that you don't have to play it. Remember that FFXIV is a themepark that takes inspiration from all the FF games so they do this regularly anyway, like the Endwalker trials.

I'll be thrilled to play it IF I don't have to read up on a decade's worth of lore from another game. If I do, then the raid is just fanservice for FFXI players, and not for me. I play this game for a fun story, not just nonsensical story with combat mechanics attached to them. But I understand that I'm not the only type of player, and that's cool. Not everything has to be for everyone.

I seriously wish comments like these go into a dumpster fire. What a terrible take

And "comments like these" will always exist lol, you should know better than that. "What a terrible take" indeed.

[Nebelheim]

I'll be thrilled to play it IF I don't have to read up on a decade's worth of lore from another game. If I do, then the raid is just fanservice for FFXI players, and not for me. I play this game for a fun story, not just nonsensical story with combat mechanics attached to them. But I understand that I'm not the only type of player, and that's cool. Not everything has to be for everyone.



And "comments like these" will always exist lol, you should know better than that. "What a terrible take" indeed.

They intergraded ff12 and tactics lore into ff14 well without needing to play those games and made those worlds feel apart of ff14. The only series that told a crap story that wasn't intergraded well was the nier raids. There is also plenty of lore videos for ff11 without the need to buy and sub to the game that someone is currently doing for ff11 covering every expansions story and someone else has done lore for all the beast men and other various lore.

[Kranel_San]

Man I can't say I'm looking forward to that alliance raid at all given how the nier/ivalice stuff went. Cause I sure as sh** not shelling out an extra $45 bucks so I can understand whats going on.

I understand what you're saying, but Ivalice collaboration was great. Unlike the Nier abomination, it actually blended into FFXIV lore and worldbuilding to be its own canon thing.

Ivalice helped with:
- Establishing Ivalician lore within the world of FFXIV
- Establish the near-east region of Dalmasca, Bozja, and Nagxia
- Introduce the creature Ultima, the High Seraph, which has blended into FFXIV lore and has ties in both ARR and EW certain raid series.
- Introduce Auracites, which could easily play a great role in an Ivalician expansion

If they're going to make FFXI collab similar to Ivalice in which it blends and gives life to the worldbuilding then I'm all in for it. Otherwise if they're going to follow Nier footsteps then please. I beg you stop the madness!

[VerdeLuck]

Man I can't say I'm looking forward to that alliance raid at all given how the nier/ivalice stuff went. Cause I sure as sh** not shelling out an extra $45 bucks so I can understand whats going on.

Same, Ivalice felt like a whirlwind of names and places just dumped on you through paragraphs and paragraphs of text, and then being shuffled through set pieces from Tactics and FF12 and feeling like you were supposed to know that boss or that thing that was just mentioned.

I'd rather have something like Shadows of Mhach where it's entirely new to the series but might have a reference or a character here or there, as opposed to Ivalice or Nier, where they just plop another game's world down in the ff14 setting and if you didn't play it you're just lost.