Quote Originally Posted by Balipu View Post
We aren't? Well someone should really tell this to all the quest givers cause their solution to every problem is to solve the Warrior of Light at it.
No, we aren't. Because from a writing and design standpoint it is a terrible idea to make us do such a thing. Constantly fighting the same "Big Bad" over and over again. We already have people complaining about fighting Garleans and the Ascians still. If we were to go and liberate each city one by one it'd take ages, multiple expansions. It's a better option to cut off the head of the snake.

i agree that Eorzea is the main focus, but there isn't not much ground left to cover there after we cross out Gyr Abania in 4.0 In fact only Garlemald will be left, and i doubt we are going to waltz into the heart of the empire in the third expansion. As for a japanese themed expansion: The domans and the raen are very japanese themed, but the xaela are mongolians, so Othard could stand in for all of asia. And besides ninja came out two years ago. I don't think 5.0 being set in Othard would make people sick of japanese stuff. But that's just me.
It's already been softly implied that 5.0 will certainly be Garlemald, if not simply heavily in Garlean lands. With mentions such as Doomtrain in 5.0 etc. There's still just very little reason to travel so far from Eorzea, and there's more interesting options if we are, such as the New World to the west that gives them freedom to do whatever instead of being restricted to "Asian themed" Othard. It's just not going to happen, not anytime soon anyways.