Quote Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora View Post
That's the difficult part of all of this: Final Fantasy is, first and foremost, a story-centric game. To start over would mean losing a lot of the story.

I imagine elemental levels would be the best way to move forward. Give us something new while keeping the old content fresh.
I did mention this somewhere before but you can absolutely do a calamity without losing old content. WoW has done this stuff for years at this point via zone phasing. We already have that system in FFXIV, it should not be hard at all to have different maps and keep the old content. The only thing stopping them from crashing another shard into ours is the effort it would take them to actually develop the feature. Something I am not holding out hope for after Joshi told us in very direct language that the more simple mobile market is what they are currently looking at for inspo.