Suggestions

[DamianFatale]

More cross overs, and not just from Final Fantasy. I want to see events themed around Kingdom Hearts, Vagrant Children, spin off titles like Crystal Chronicles, Dragon Quest and others. Give us Keyblade Glamours, and organization outfits. Give us Promptos outfit from FF15, Celes and Lockes outfit from FF6, Seymores outfit and Yunas Kimono. We could use more kimonos. Be really creative.

[Enkidoh]

The thing is, the crossover events that have been run in FFXIV so far have all had some deeper meta connection to Naoki Yoshida and weren't just 'fanservice crossover for the sake of fanservice'.

The FFXI event was run to coincide with FFXI's then eleventh anniversary of service, plus also FFXIV 1.0's development was originally headed by FFXI's original producer Hiromichi Tanaka, so the FFXI event was also a fond salute to Yoshi-P's predecessor (not to mention FFXIV was originally conceived to be the thematic successor to FFXI). Likewise, the Dragon Quest X event was similarly to coincide with DQX's first year of service, plus Yoshi-P was originally on the DQX development team before he took over FFXIV's development, so again that was a fond shoutout to his previous project. And finally the FFXIII event was actually the result of a joke at the E3 convention in 2013 between Yoshi-P and FFXIII's developers Motomu Toriyama and Tetusya Nomura - the later gave Lightning the FFXIV miqo'te racial gear and FFXIV Grand Company weapons in Lightning Returns and Yoshi famously stated that he would "find some way to repay the compliment" by "finding a way to have Lightning appear in FFXIV ARR." The FFXIII crossover event was the result (it was also officially cross-marketing with that game).

Thus these three events are actually exceptions rather than the rule - it's why SE are not running regular crossover events in FFXIV for every new game they release, it would just eat into development time that could be better spent elsewhere, plus overloading the game with fanservice crossover events just cheapens the experience all round - it would be as if SE were indirectly saying to players, "This game can't survive on it's own and thus we need to cram crossover events with other games to make it worth playing."

I love fanservice as much as the next FF fangirl, but a limit has to be drawn somewhere.

[DamianFatale]

Of course a line has to be drawn somewhere, but you do have to understand that a lot of things from other franchises have appeared. It would make perfect sense to give us more stuff from classic games. I'm not saying do something with every release, but maybe add more things from Squares major franchises.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

A lot of things from other franchises have appeared.

I'm fairly certain that everything that has been throw into this game is either of their own design, FF11/DQ made. or are recurring themes and names from previous Final Fantasy Games (Chocobos and Moogles). Could you elaborate on what you are referring to?

[Dante_V]

I'm fairly certain that everything that has been throw into this game is either of their own design, FF11/DQ made. or are recurring themes and names from previous Final Fantasy Games (Chocobos and Moogles). Could you elaborate on what you are referring to?

It should be noted that while some of them are reoccurring themes, some are not. And reoccuring themes ARE in themselves fan service. These ideas aren't mutually exclusive. For instance FFvi Magitek armors (FFVI iteration/copy) Bismark (who's only real appearance outside of XIV is in VI aside from some lore refernces and a notirious monster name in XI). the heart staff in gold saucer, the entire gold saucer and its theme music. Crystal tower/world of darkness. Magitek mount music, battle on big bridge and it's theme song, cloud armor, baron circlet and helmet. Kane minion. Materia (which outside of the VII universe doesn't really appear but this is also arguably a reoccurring theme.

There are a bunch more but ultimately it will lead to semantic discussion about which things are and are not reoccurring themes and which are not. For the sake of conversation I would consider them things which have been present in most if not all cannon final fantasy titles. Like chocobos.

In the same line something can be both a reoccurring theme and fan service if it is indicative of a specific version of a reoccurring theme.

I personally would like to see more orginal things myself. Ravana was an excellent start and more stuff along these lines would be great. But I don't mind throwback stuff either.