Elephant in the room - action changes from the lore standpoint

[Arcell]

I bet it's going to just be thrown at us without making sense.
Instead of writing "These changes are subject to change." under the new class system,
they should have written in the beginning "The lore of this game is subject to change, so don't expect a nice story which makes any sense at all."

....until it's finished. Don't expect shit to make a whole lot of sense until the game is in a finished state (2.0). There was a vision for the old classes and the old game and it sucked so we got this new guy and he has a different vision so we're going with that now. There are going to need to be some changes for his vision to make sense, so he's making them. It may seem weird to us but only because we've been playing from the start and we'll be playing in what will later be known as Old Eorzea. When the game (hopefully) gets off the ground in 2.0 and we see a lot of people (again hopefully) they won't know that the lore has been drastically changed and from a new player's standpoint it'll make sense. It only seems dumb and strange to us because we're still playing right through the middle of all of the changes.

Personally, I'm not getting too attached to any particular concept or piece of lore until the dust settles and we have the final product.

[TheFatHousecat]

....until it's finished. Don't expect shit to make a whole lot of sense until the game is in a finished state (2.0). There was a vision for the old classes and the old game and it sucked so we got this new guy and he has a different vision so we're going with that now. There are going to need to be some changes for his vision to make sense, so he's making them. It may seem weird to us but only because we've been playing from the start and we'll be playing in what will later be known as Old Eorzea. When the game (hopefully) gets off the ground in 2.0 and we see a lot of people (again hopefully) they won't know that the lore has been drastically changed and from a new player's standpoint it'll make sense. It only seems dumb and strange to us because we're still playing right through the middle of all of the changes.

Personally, I'm not getting too attached to any particular concept or piece of lore until the dust settles and we have the final product.

What this guy said. There needs to be less threads like this, tbh :I THE GAME IS BEING RE-DONE, CHANGES IS COME.

[AmyRae]

Up until now, they made every change fit well to the lore.
Like when the monsters grew bigger and all the NPCs noticed and wondered about the reason.
Or this whole 7th catastrophe thing which will alter how Eorzea looks completely.

But I really want to see how they will do THIS now, because it changes so many things in such an extreme way..
Just implementing it without explanation -> extremely bad.

....until it's finished. Don't expect shit to make a whole lot of sense until the game is in a finished state (2.0).

Normally, I would agree with Arcell. However, Atoli has a point. SE is selling you the once-in-a-lifetime end-of-the-world experience for your paid subscription. I actually do believe you are owed an explanation (quite literally). It's the whole point of this phase of the game, in fact.

Of course, it's too soon to assume there won't be an in-game explanation. There very well could be one on the way.