Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
Lead up until 8.0 speculation

YoshiP is on record for saying that Meracydia is not going to be the setting of the next expansion. While I'm a little disappointed we're not going there just yet, on the bright side it means that 8.0 is an even bigger mystery.
For what it's worth, this isn't quite true.

The actual quote is 'Meracydia is planned, but quite a while away' (and likely said through a translator, so there's probably some imprecision there). Notably, this was a response to a question that he basically can't answer in any other way about future content; realistically, he just had to pick something on the agenda and say this about it, and he happened to pick Meracydia.

It could mean anything from 'it's ten years down the track' to 'it's the next expansion but we don't want you thinking about it right now'.