Elephant in the room - action changes from the lore standpoint

[Arcell]

Just like the rest of the game, the lore is being reworked too. Again Yoshida's vision seems to clash with Tanaka's, so Tanaka's ideas and whatnot are getting the axe. The game is changing drastically, this is no different. With 2.0 I imagine everything will make sense together.

For new players they won't know that the lore has been changed and it'll all make perfect sense to them. Again these changes only seem bad to us because we've been exposed to the old, changing lore already.

[Alcide]

Just like the rest of the game, the lore is being reworked too. Again Yoshida's vision seems to clash with Tanaka's, so Tanaka's ideas and whatnot are getting the axe. The game is changing drastically, this is no different. With 2.0 I imagine everything will make sense together.

For new players they won't know that the lore has been changed and it'll all make perfect sense to them. Again these changes only seem bad to us because we've been exposed to the old, changing lore already.

Ok, we get that the game is changing drastically, but since the classes are changing drastically too and in the new concept there's absolutely nothing of the original CNJ and THM basically if the changings were swapped it wouldn't have made any difference from a development point of view, right? I mean, there isn't a single ability left untouched... tho if the changes were swapped it would have made much more sense from a lore point of view, resulting in less changes to lore and quests hence less work for the devs. Even if the game is changing drastically we should expect a bit of common sense in these changes. It feels like when they chosed wich class got WHM or BLM they just flipped a coin.

Also, as I've already stated, the battle system needs to be changed, the graphic engine needs to be changed, the class system needs to be changed, but the lore? That's the only thing that could be left untouched no matter how 2.0 will be different from the original game and that's what defines FFXIV above all; if it's gonna change drastically too I fail to see why they didn't just shut down the project and started a new mmo from scratches. I get that the main reason is the title, but when everything is changing the only thing that keeps the new game tied to the FFXIV title is the lore.