8.0 story wish

[YISUG]

I hope the Dimensional Key turns out to not be what we think it is, and it turns out to be Auracite, but it gets stolen in the lead up to 8.0. And so we have to get it back, and our adventure send us back to Dalmasca where we defeated Ultima The High Seraph, and back into the Aetherial Sea where we defeated Athena where we learn that it is being mined for energy, and the mining operation is being carried out from Meracydia.

unfortunately, chances that ultima and dalmasca will be involved are close to 0, because:-
1-side content
2-everything related to ivalice was 100% scrapped

this is definitely the biggest clue to why people believe that the game's team skipped a planned garlemald expansion, it seems bozja was supposed to be continued in the following expansion, but they just closed what happened to the 4th leigon in the codex shortly after they released the final part of bozja

these are 2 very strong reasons why we can't expect ANY high seraph involvment, beside, look at how they speed-ran old lore in endwalker like path of the twelve, they just want to close these and build new lore and new stuff, they even recently published a lore\story builder job listing for XIV

the twleve questline was a big chance for the deities to talk about older eras and calamities and reveal more lore, but it is what it is i guess

[mallleable]

unfortunately, chances that ultima and dalmasca will be involved are close to 0, because:-
1-side content
2-everything related to ivalice was 100% scrapped

this is definitely the biggest clue to why people believe that the game's team skipped a planned garlemald expansion, it seems bozja was supposed to be continued in the following expansion, but they just closed what happened to the 4th leigon in the codex shortly after they released the final part of bozja

these are 2 very strong reasons why we can't expect ANY high seraph involvment, beside, look at how they speed-ran old lore in endwalker like path of the twelve, they just want to close these and build new lore and new stuff, they even recently published a lore\story builder job listing for XIV

the twleve questline was a big chance for the deities to talk about older eras and calamities and reveal more lore, but it is what it is i guess

Yeah, Dalmasca might be trickier to pull off, but I think making Pandaemonium MSQ relevant could be a safer option considering its ties to The Heart of Sabik, and Ascians, and can be used to point us in the direction of like Ultima Prime being the big bad or something.

[Kozh]

unfortunately, chances that ultima and dalmasca will be involved are close to 0, because:-
1-side content
2-everything related to ivalice was 100% scrapped

this is definitely the biggest clue to why people believe that the game's team skipped a planned garlemald expansion, it seems bozja was supposed to be continued in the following expansion, but they just closed what happened to the 4th leigon in the codex shortly after they released the final part of bozja

these are 2 very strong reasons why we can't expect ANY high seraph involvment, beside, look at how they speed-ran old lore in endwalker like path of the twelve, they just want to close these and build new lore and new stuff, they even recently published a lore\story builder job listing for XIV

the twleve questline was a big chance for the deities to talk about older eras and calamities and reveal more lore, but it is what it is i guess

I'm still very salty about this. Thanks to yoshi-p deciding to ride on ShB success coattail, we will never get a garlemald and dalmasca expansion. Endwalker is a mistake is the hill I'll die on.

[ZXN]

My dream area before was, well, Bozja, after pretty much living in the area for the entirety of Shadowbringers. Once you completed the entire Bozja story, you could talk to Bajsaljen and ask him about "What will become of Bozja?", he ends his standard political stuff by saying they would hold elections where people can choose who best to represent their ideals and saying they were going to hold said elections in the next two years and then hoped you would see how far Bozja has come next time you visited. Unfortunately with Matsuno saying that the Ivalice/Dalmasca plans "disappeared", along with Yoshi-P and the devs apparently snuffing a planned Garlemald expansion, and them most likely not wanting to make any part of the Ivalice/Bozja raids/zones mandatory like they did Crystal Tower with Shadowbringers given how many people hated Ivalice/Bozja, any hope to go to a zone I would've liked to see died, so I stopped huffing that copium fairly quick.

Honestly with 8.0 I would rather they just try do their own thing instead of another "Here is just FF# being told in FF14!" Meracydia is probably the most obvious place to visit next world wise, but I get the feeling that would probably just also be reduced to nothing but constant "LOOK AT THE FF6 REFERENCES AND PARALLELS EVERYONE!!!" as jingling keys to hook players given the warring triad and omega raid series and whatnot along with throwing in as many stereo-typically Australian things as possible. Boomerangs and spiders for everyone.

[ThaCa]

I hope they would actually weave different storylines, instead of just following one trail. Like getting entangled with some local politics, hunting for treasure, progress on shard travel etc. so it becomes clear that the world lives and moves on outside of your character's influence and how you cannot be everywhere at once to solve all the problems.

Still sidelining some major events like the succession wars of garlemald and dalmasca among with other stuff feels bad. If the events have a relation to you, it would be nice to still have some level of coverage instead of almost complete bypass. It's fine if you aren't there for everything, but it would be nice to at least have characters talk or even show what is transpiring instead of demoting them to some footnote text.