Based on this article that the mighty Sagacyte Luxaloix drew my attention to on Twitter, I got to reasoning why the trademark for "Prequel Trilogy" just registered by Square-Enix couldn't be a prequel to FFXIV.

There are a ton of FF fans out there who love the single-player games in the series, but will not touch MMOs due to the stigma of subscription - at least a dozen of my RL friends are in this boat and though a few have promised to give the upcoming ARR Free Trial a go, I think that a PREQUEL TRILOGY would go a long way to introducing those players to Hydaelyn.

Not only would such an endeavour make use of the FFXIV assets the company already has, but the expansion of lore and history would positively impact the MMO, making the world deeper and richer.

I'm pretty sure that most of you reading this would buy the trilogy too, especially if each chapter came with a new minion...


Hell, even if this particular trademark ends up just being for a trilogy of mobile apps to precursor the release of FFXV, I think the idea of single-player FFXIV prequels is fantastic.

WHO WANTS??