Quote Originally Posted by DynnDiablos View Post
What I am most worried about with the whole "key" stuff and hints they've dropped so far, is 8.0 is going to be another "visit a new shard" patch when we still have plenty of map to uncover here in Eorzea. Now, don't get me wrong, I loved Shadowbringers and the new lands we got, but I don't want this to be a crutch they keep falling back to.
It's not really a crutch, the shards are legitimate places in the FFXIV universe. They are in essence unexplored areas of the map.