So SE has officially stated their MMO profits have tanked.

[Absurdity]

Ngl, literally just learned the other day that I can have the title screen and movie be whatever I want.

So I promptly changed it to Shadowbringers, because I'm tired of being flashbanged by the brightness and its loudness blaring through my speakers, every time the Dawntrail title screen appears.

Shadowbringers title screen is much easier on the eyes and the volume of it is reasonable, it doesn't come in booming.

That feature is really nice in concept, because I also don't like to be flashbanged.

But unfortunately, unless I missed something, it resets every time you close the game, making it pretty useless at it's intended function.

Every calamity (so the flood that came about from the War of the Magi) was all part of the Ascians plan to try and resurrect Zodiark, so yes even the War of the Magi was still the ancients.

I have nothing else to contribute to this thread, just saw this and had to add to it. .

True, when you take into consideration their goal to rejoin the shards with the source, which always came with a calamity, they would be behind all of them.

What I'm not sure about is if they actively caused all of them, or if nations were already in conflict by themselves and the Ascians just exploited what was already happening on it's own.

4.x/shadowbringers was what locked us into this mess

Shadowbringers absolutely started it, but Endwalker was what really locked us into this mess by trying to explain every remaining plot thread that 1.0 and ARR set up with "the ancients did it".