Can we PLEASE have a Sephiroth Event (ff7), just like they did for Lightning (ff13)?

[ZetsubouShin]

I would love to do some Sephiroth gear farming, fates and such, get the hairstyle. Gimme! Who is with me on this?

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

Might be the wrong forum for this; "out-of-universe" cross-promotional stuff is like the opposite of Lore. Anyways.

Lightning's event was, I recall, part of a XIII sequel cross-promotion (for Lightning Returns?). It wasn't just added due to fan demand, or whatever; with that in mind, I can see two ways Sephiroth gear could make its way into FFXIV: a similar event, maybe cross-promoting the VII Remake, or as a Veteran Reward (ala the Advent Children Cloud top). Those are usually the two times they outright add gear based on the main characters of other entries.

[Cilia]

IF they add one in, it'll probably be a promotional event for the VII remake episode(s). The Lightning Strikes event was a promotion for Lightning Returns.

But I would ask you this: what hairstyle and equipment would they add for female characters? Ehh? They did add Snow's original hairstyle and outfit along with Lightning's...

[Enkidoh]

That simply won't be happening I am sorry to say. As Hinoto stated, the FFXIII event, along with the two FFXI events and the Dragon Quest event, were not simply added for 'fanservice', they are exceptions rather than the rule, as they were to celebrate certain milestones in those respective games, plus also as a result of a meta connection between FFXIV's development team (specifically, producer and director Naoki Yoshida) and the development teams of those respective games.

Specifically, the FFXIII event was the result of a private joke at E3 2013 Yoshi-P made with Lightning Returns's producer Motomu Toriyama (the later who included FFXIV miqo'te starting gear and level 50 GC GLA/PLD weapons as equipment for Lightning in LR:FFXIII), and Yoshi stated he would "find some way to repay the compliment" by "finding a way to have Lightning appear in FFXIV" (paraphrased). The FFXIII event was the result - officially it was also cross-marketing with LR:FFXII, the three times the event was run was to coincide with LR:FFXIII's Japan and NA/EU releases.

By the same token, the FFXI events were to celebrate FFXI's eleventh anniversary of service (for the first event featuring Shantotto - a similar event was run in FFXI featuring Eorzean spriggans appearing in Vana'diel around the same time), and the official completion of FFXI's main storyline with the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel missions (for the second event which featured the RoV main character Iroha) - meta wise it was also a fond reference and salute to FFXIV's MMO predecessor. FFXIV originally was planned as FFXI's spiritual successor, and also FFXI's original producer, Hiromichi Tanaka, was also the original producer for the original version of FFXIV (version 1.0), whom Yoshi replaced after FFXIV 1.0's disastrous launch.

And finally, the DQ event was to celebrate Dragon Quest X's first anniversary of service, the meta connection to FFXIV being Yoshi was previously a member of DQX's development team before he joined the FFXIV team as producer, so that was a fond callback to his previous project.

Hence, because there is virtually zero meta connection to FFVII (other than Yoshi being on record as saying that FFVII is one of his two favourite FF games, the other being FFIII), accordingly there has been no FFVII-tie in event. Of course it's still possible when the FFVII Remake is launched that there might be some kind of tie-in event, but I wouldn't hold my breath - certainly it wouldn't feature Sephiroth at all (because I recall Yoshi stating back during the Beta that any crossover events that were run would not include "characters whose stories are complete", or "characters who are deceased in their respective games", thus meaning no villain appearances like Sephiroth I'm sorry to say). Of course there is FFVII gear in the game in the form of Cloud's Advent Children attire as a veteran reward, so that would probably be the closest you could get to seeing Sephiroth in the game.

But then, stranger things have happened.

[Yasuhiro]

About the characters stories being completed, can't they just do something like in Dissidia where characters are taking from certain points in time? That'd be a good work around I think for characters to be taken from other worlds then again I'm honestly more of a fan of re-imagined stuff coming back like Ozma for example, recognizable but not completely the same. Going back to characters appearing, Zidane (just an example! I don't actually want it! the Tantalus attire is enough ) could pop up in Eorzea around the time he blacks out in the Ice Cavern. I understand that Dissidia is meant to be a crossover game and XIV has a completely different dev team with their own philosophy but it's just an idea. I'd still settle for re-imagined bosses and characters like Sephirot and Krile for examples, fans know who they are but in Eorzea they're their own things.

[Fenral]

Aside from World A and World B, there isn't actually dimensional travel in Dissidia, though (*except for Gilgamesh, maybe). There's a really complicated in-universe conceit that exists only to keep it from conflicting with the other games in the series. FFXIV doesn't have anything like that, yet, but the XIII event came close with help from Bhunivelze. The Binding Coil is also populated almost entirely with reskins of FFXIII enemies (and LR:FFXIII uses a number of creatures from XIV), so the collaboration goes much deeper than a costume and some weapons, on both sides.

But if we must get technical, we already have a boss battle based on a character designed by Tetsuya Nomura that he named Sephiroth, so I doubt we'll get another. Just be grateful for that achievement name.

[Yasuhiro]

I don't know about that part about the re-skins I know where you're coming from but a lot of these recycled models are just there because of time constraints and budget but take that with a grain of salt I don't know it was intentional recycling or they generally did want to bring back those enemies. I gotta admit they did hand pick the enemies from XI, XII and XIII really well to make it fit in with XIV's lore. As for LR:XIII I think iirc that game was released when XIV was in patch 2.1? 2.2? I don't know joined very late around 2.3 but those Shabti you see in the research centre are from LR.

Anyway... >.> I do go on haha, (I just love discussing FF trivia with people here <3)
I was more or less thinking of something like Persona Q as well as Dissidia with crossovers, just like when I said characters in Final Fantasy games are pulled from various timelines
Characters in Persona Q when returned back to their timeline have no recollection of what just happened and neither do characters from Dissidia iirc so that's why I think it could work, also there's the whole void thing, anything in FF can be explained with the void!

There's no Sephiroth yet by the way, the fiend goes by the name of Sephirot without the H. Sorry, always need to correct people, it's a common mistake, I've even called it Sepiroth a few times by mistake, you are partially right though

In the original concept artwork by Tetsuya Nomura, the Warring Triad are given names beyond their basic titles. Fiend was given the name Sefilos (セフィロス, Sefirosu?), which translated as "Sephiroth." (סְפִירוֹת, medieval Hebrew form of Sephirot),

The name that we got is based on Hebrew origins according to the wikia
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/F..._Fantasy_VI%29

[Fenral]

There's no Sephiroth yet by the way, the fiend goes by the name of Sephirot without the T. Sorry, always need to correct people, it's a common mistake, I've even called it Sepiroth a few times by mistake, you are partially right though

I'm aware of the etymology, thanks. Nomura had originally named the Fiend Sephiroth, using the same kana that would later be used for FFVII's antagonist, and that is what I was referring to.

[Yasuhiro]

S-sorry to offend, didn't mean to piss you off, I wasn't trying to be condescending :c

[Fenral]

I wasn't trying to sound pissed off. That's just how I sound.