Everyone would benefit from a FFXIV anime series

[Bonoki]

I feel like an FFXIV anime would not be made in the greatest quality. Lot of arcs and fight scenes would be rushed, and we'd just basically watch an animated montage of the Scions being good buddies made better or worse depending on how many episodes we'd be given to cover 5 - 6 expansions worth of material. Things would absolutely get retconned or skipped entirely for the anime's sake and we'd probably still end up with random filler episodes that don't tie into the game in any way. The anime would also probably age poorly as new expansion material continues previous material continuations which the anime might not set up very well. Additionally, things like animes tend to play into head canons like "shipping", that otherwise aren't a role in game's story. So, we end up with game canon and anime canon.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I feel like an FFXIV anime would not be made in the greatest quality. Lot of arcs and fight scenes would be rushed, and we'd just basically watch an animated montage of the Scions being good buddies made better or worse depending on how many episodes we'd be given to cover 5 - 6 expansions worth of material. Things would absolutely get retconned or skipped entirely for the anime's sake and we'd probably still end up with random filler episodes that don't tie into the game in any way. The anime would also probably age poorly as new expansion material continues previous material continuations which the anime might not set up very well. Additionally, things like animes tend to play into head canons like "shipping", that otherwise aren't a role in game's story. So, we end up with game canon and anime canon.

I think an anime adaptation of the story would be a bad idea in general, not to mention would force them to try to make a more fleshed out canonical Warrior of Light as I don't think a silent protagonist can really work in non-interactive media.
But the entire universe doesn't need to revolve around the WoL, I'm sure they could come up with stories that doesn't actually involve them in any way.

I wouldn't mind them making an anime series that just takes place in the world of FFXIV, rather than trying to turn the game into an anime.