More FF Cross Over Events

[SoloWingMetatron]

It would be great to see some more cross over events for previous FF's, like the FFXIII event from a while back. Where you could do a series of quests to unlock equipment/hairstyles based on the characters from that FF. They could even add Egi glamours where you could make the Egi look like it's counterpart from previous FF's. Garuda could have Valefor from FFX as a glamour! That would be so cool!

[Alex_W]

I do like your idea a lot. I doubt the egi-glamour will occur though. I feel we will be stuck with these egis forever.

[Bombast]

Egi glams have already been shot down, and FF13 only made it in because SE has a colossal hard on for Lightning.

Every other FF gets into this game through nods, equipment design, and mob design. FF6, for instance, is heavily sighted in the Garlean Empire, and Heavenward appears to be the FF4 expansion.

[SoloWingMetatron]

Egi glams have already been shot down, and FF13 only made it in because SE has a colossal hard on for Lightning.

Oh I was not aware the prospect of Egi glams has already been shot down. I guess it was mentioned in a Live Letter are something? If so then that's unfortunate, since they would be easy implement and add a nice customization element.

Yeah I think the FF nods that are already present are great. But I found the FFXIII event to be quite enjoyable, so it would be nice to have similar events to get legitimate items from said FF titles. I know Cloud's AC outfit has been added as a veteran reward for the purpose of glamour, so I think they should continue to run with it and bring in more equipment/glams from other FF's.

[Enkidoh]

The FFXI, FFXIII and DQX events were actually exceptions rather than the rule, as all three events had a deeper connection to FFXIV's development than just fan service. They were event that actually all celebrated certain milestones in each respective title, and also had a deeper meta connection to the development team.

Specifically, the FFXIII event was actually a result of an in-joke between FFXIII's producer Motomu Toriyama and Naoki Yoshida - where Toriyama included miqo'te racial gear and the level 50 GC GLA/PLD weapons as equipment for Lightning in Lightning Returns ~ FFXIII, Yoshi-P famously stated at E3 in 2013 that, paraphrased, he "would find some way to repay the compliment" by "finding a way to have Lightning appear in FFXIV ARR" - officially though it was billed as being cross marketing for Lightning Returns.

Similarly, the FFXI event was to celebrate FFXI's eleventh anniversary of service (a similar FFXIV event involving spriggans was held in FFXI around the same time), as well as possibly being a fond tribute to Hiromichi Tanaka, FFXI's original producer as well as being FFXIV's original producer whom Yoshi-P replaced due to FFXIV version 1.0's disastrous launch (which ARR was the reboot of). FFXIV was also meant to be symbolically FFXI's spiritual successor.

And finally, the Dragon Quest event was to celebrate DQX's first anniversary of service, a game that Yoshi-P was originally on the development team for (before he joined the FFXIV development team as producer and director).

Thus, because of this, I doubt very much you'll see any other direct crossover events to any other FF game, (specifically, SE already stated ages ago that they 'have no plans' to do crossover events for FFVII or X - the HD re-release of the later has already long came and gone without any crossover event occurring so sadly that's pretty much the proof right there.)

[Sakuraluna]

I'm hoping for some type of crossover event for XV when it gets released. Just please, no car! D:

[SoloWingMetatron]

FFVII or X - the HD re-release of the later has already long came and gone without any crossover event occurring so sadly that's pretty much the proof right there.)

This is true and you're probably right on that front. I was aware these other cross over events marked some form of milestone for the respected title, so I would have expected no different for any possible future events. Before FFX HD's release I was hopeful for a crossover event, but as you say since that didn't happen the chances of any future events are slim.

However if not through cross over events then maybe items from other FF's can be introduced in a different way. Such as veteran rewards like Cloud's AC gear or even via the Golden Saucer as MGP rewards.