I actually kinda enjoyed them along with the lightening returns stuff. I hope that with shantotto and his transdimensianal travel from van' proves that there can be a tie in between ffxi and ffxiv.

Now all we need is for shantotto to make gates across eorzea by accident that links it to van' so we can explore both worlds! In ffxi we got to go to the past! In ffxiv maybe we get to go to van'!