Did solution 9 reveal like a jump the shark moment yesterday?

[Mecia]

It's not that there aren't other places like that in game already, I'll concede that, but yeah I'm just =/ about it..

No i dont think there are neon commie blocks anywhere else in the game.

[MikkoAkure]

Personally I dislike when games force players to go outside of the game to get information lore about the game. WoW did it to an extreme but at least every player had the option to purchase the books.

Much worse if that information is contained in a limited edition book that not everyone can get.

It's also in the lore forum race name page for Xaela:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ng-Conventions

Making contact goes both ways.

Why would what appears to be a very technologically advanced society not have been exploring and making contact with other societies around the globe? Even if Eorzea was skipped for whatever reason, places like Radz-at-Han have trade partners from all over the globe for rumors to have circulated.

Easy to compare it to another fictional country but Wakanda being hidden from the rest of the world didn't make sense either.

If SE is setting it up as another Wakanda, color me extremely disappointed in them. That sounds like jumping the shark to me.

No one knew about the highly advanced airship, research facility, and museum for the thousands of years it was hanging over the mountains in Northern Aldenard.

No one had contact with the New World until this century. That includes Thavnair. Thavnair is only a trading hub for the Three Great Continents unless it's later retconned to include Tural, which is not included in that. It's likely Sharlayan may know but they don't tell anyone anything. And then the lore book goes on to say that "distance prevents much modern-day interaction between the New world and Eorzea" and Thavnair is even further away. Limsa is the main hub for western travel anyway and that's where the Mamool Ja mercenaries went.

Apparently a Limsan mapped Tural 80 years ago and Merlwyb 20 years ago restablished contact but if we don't know about Solution Nine from back then, then I guess he never saw it. We have no context for any of the situation there though.

But there's no reason they HAVE to make contact with the rest of the world. If they want to remain secret for whatever reason, they have the capacity and they're in the middle of nowhere on a continent on the other side of the world.

[Lady_Silvermoon]

My WoL helped build up a cafe with a bunny and a robot at the edge of the universe... If it's possible to jump the shark in this game, we've done so a long time ago.

I'm another one of the people who grew excited about the expansion for the first time after seeing Solution 9.

[Zordrage]

Solution 9 was the best part for me.

Im waaay past to be excited about more trees and sand im bored of them.
I was meh about the entire expansion since the 1st annuncement UNTIL i saw Solution 9 NOW im excited.

[Nayukhuut]

Personally I dislike when games force players to go outside of the game to get information lore about the game. WoW did it to an extreme but at least every player had the option to purchase the books.

Much worse if that information is contained in a limited edition book that not everyone can get.

While I agree that lore books should basically just cover information that was available in game and essentially be just a way to have it all in one convenient place, they are no longer limited edition. Anyone can go out and buy them now, anytime they wish to. Still agree that all the info in them should be in game somewhere, though.

[KageTokage]

This is the kind of thing I would've preferred to stumble across organically in-game and the sort of the thing they'd normally keep under wraps, so I feel like it was a rather forced attempt to kindle interest in the plot/expansion to disclose information about it this early on.

[Lady_Silvermoon]

This is the kind of thing I would've preferred to stumble across organically in-game and the sort of the thing they'd normally keep under wraps, so I feel like it was a rather forced attempt to kindle interest in the plot/expansion to disclose information about it this early on.

Sounds like it's the second hub and not the AWE zone. So it'd be more like mentioning Eulmore or Thavnair than Amaurot or Ultima Thule.

[Iscah]

Personally I dislike when games force players to go outside of the game to get information lore about the game. WoW did it to an extreme but at least every player had the option to purchase the books.

Much worse if that information is contained in a limited edition book that not everyone can get.

It has already been covered that the text is also available outside of the book and that the book is not actually limited edition, but an even more important thing to note is that it is highly unlikely to have been important information at the time it was written, simply a throwaway joke to pad out the long list of trivia about each non-story-important tribe.

I was always half-expecting it to turn out to be a subversion if it ever came up, written so we'd interpret it as a primitive description of a modern city but they actually found something more like Stonehenge inhabited by metallic-scaled dragons.

[Palladiamors]

The Ascians turning out to be an ancient race of godlike beings who created everything was a jump the shark moment. Meteion was a jump the shark moment. Building a spaceship was a jump the shark moment.

This is a normal Tuesday in comparison.

[DPZ2]

Much worse if that information is contained in a limited edition book that not everyone can get.

Encyclopaedia Eorzea volumes I, II, and III are all available on Amazon, at around USD$30 each. I'm sure you could get your local bookstore to order one for you if you'd like.

It's more readily available than one might think.