How would You Feel about a Honkai: Star Rail Crossover?

[Keumjo]

I don't play Honkai or Genshin, so I don't have a pony in that race. Honestly, I don't mind collabs, it's not like FFXIV has been consistent with theme or immersion (we have a Fall Guys collab for christ's sake).
All that matters to me is if there is free glam. However, SE has learned that they can charge for collab glams now, so the future is in the mogstation, not in the game.

[Kemiko]

Being a free-to-play player in a Hoyoverse game is pretty laughable to try and say that's a reasonable way to play. At least, if you have characters you want to use or want to participate in their weird ways to earn currency (supposedly freely) to save up gamble to try and get a character you like whenever they're available again. Unless they're somewhere in the standard gambling loot box and you don't mind hoping against hope to get them. With gambling. Using your limited freely obtained resources that have a finite amount to get en masse freely.

The fun side-stuff they add for you to enjoy characters, like Hang-outs, also requires you to have those characters. So you first have to win the gamble to get them to even enjoy that content. Their events where you can earn plenty of rewards are also tuned to require specific characters (because of something new they have that the event requires) or specific power rating to clear (meaning you need units for combos or for them to be ascended or multi-starred or whatever the hell that particular hoyoverse game you're playing calls it).

Everything they do is to encourage you to spend money. And then spend more money. Gacha in general is very successful at generating money, even when the games don't put out anywhere near as much effort as hoyoverse into making you want to spend money. Honkai Starrail, ZZZ, and Genshin Impact are all regularly played in my house by someone. I, personally, only play Genshin Impact and ZZZ. Their style of combat is just more fun to me than Honkai's turn-based stuff.

Compared to those games, FFXIV legitimately gives you a lot of game for free without crippling your ability to actually play. Everything up to LV70, with even ways around some of the limitations of a trial account in-game (such as making parties). An equivalent to that in, say, Genshin Impact would be having access to all characters up to Fontaine with the ability to at least 3-star all of them without spending a single dime in the game, but you'd have limitations on multiplayer (you can't join other players worlds at all). But then, if you actually buy the game you get the expansion you bought and all previous expansions. So, again for Genshin, if I dropped 50 bucks in that game, I'd have all characters up to Nod-Krai and could fully upgrade them all in-game without spending more money. Of course, the difference here would be to continue playing Genshin Impact I'd have to pay a sub of about 9 bucks a month.

It's really not comparable. The amount of dosh needed to just get characters in crazy and as a free-to-play player you have to plan ahead for which characters you'd going to gamble your earned currency for because you're literally unable to get them as they release. The game isn't built to make that possible. It's only possible if you spend money. And a lot of money at that. Also the FOMO in those games are crazy compared to any we've seen in XIV.

I don't want any gacha game crossovers to happen with XIV at all. I can only imagine the sort of agreements hoyovere would demand just to make it happen. I'm kinda burnt out on crossovers in general. They're all over games and I'd honestly prefer the time and money spent on those things to just add more of the games universe to the game. Or improve the game itself.

[TeresaFortell]

No collabs with gacha slop, please.

Nah, more gach slop please. Might be something that can actually help the game.

[Connor]

I’m pretty sure they’ll rule out ‘in-game crossovers with non-square IP’s’ lol. The Monster Hunter collab was weird enough.

Then again, not like devs give a shit about ‘Lore’ or ‘Setting’ anymore so maybe we should get a bunch of collabs with completely unrelated but apparently popular IP’s that have no relation to the game whatsoever lol.

Cant wait for FFXIV ft Dante

[Carin-Eri]

I’m pretty sure they’ll rule out ‘in-game crossovers with non-square IP’s’ lol. The Monster Hunter collab was weird enough.

Then again, not like devs give a shit about ‘Lore’ or ‘Setting’ anymore so maybe we should get a bunch of collabs with completely unrelated but apparently popular IP’s that have no relation to the game whatsoever lol.

Cant wait for FFXIV ft Dante

"Anymore"? Did they ever?

I mean, as popular as the NieR raids may be with some, the narrative and lore felt out of place and the ending was a big nothing sandwich. They were basically a self-contained fan service raid series that ate the alliance raid slot then deleted itself from the story.

[Kemiko]

I’m pretty sure they’ll rule out ‘in-game crossovers with non-square IP’s’ lol. The Monster Hunter collab was weird enough.

"Anymore"? Did they ever?

Well, there's the fact that this was the second Monster Hunter collab. There's also the Yokai Watch collab. There's also the GARO collab. They do non-SQEX property collabs every so often.

[Vespar]

no interest in other games. Ive interest in FF & DQ and other SE properties... Collab more of those titles please for hairstyles/gearsets, etc.

[VeyaAkemi]

Honestly, a new DQ collab where they give us iconic high-end DQ stuff like the Liquid Metal/Metal King and the Divine Bustier sets would be a lot of fun. They could also give us the Zenithian set, but those are tied to a specific arc, even if it covers 3 games.