A little thing FF14 could have...

[Hito-Shura]

No thanks, keep it all in game. Don't want to have to go to novels to get the lore and characters they should instead put in the game.

Fair enough. I too wouldn't want the main lore to be only accessible outside the game. But you seem to miss my point though.

I'm not asking to share lore between 2 mediums but to add lore through an additional and appealing medium. The game is very limited as to what they can add in term of lore and side stories since all you can really do in game is talk to NPCs and do quests. The more intricate details and deeper lore won't come out of the mouth of some random NPC. If a NPC had an adventure, I don't see him or her start explaining in details what they did during 2 months while waiting for the next patch. The same applies to events and important things happening in distant lands. You won't get those in game out of the blue.

SE publishes a monthly manga magazine (like a comic book anthology) called Shonen GanGan in Japan. And I'm pretty sure they've had plenty of final fantasies and other SE titles in manga form in there. So FFXIV manga may actually happen...

(Side note: Full Metal Alchemist is serialized in Shonen GanGan, which is why SE produced its game adaptations.)

I do hope so! But for now, FF14 has been running for 2 years already and they have plans for another 7 at least and still we haven't gotten any kind of new medium to publish addition details and lore to the world. I find it saddening... There is so much potential there!