NieR: Automata Crossover Event

[Luxyn]

Could be easy enough just say they came from a diff world blame the allagan for super hi tech stuff have a fate in southern thanalan with a certain centipede like boss have A2 help. have one in any gridania place with a swarm of forest enemies have 9S help there. have a goliath on the coast of moraby dry docks or costa del sol with 2B helping have pod provide banter and proposals the whole time. have a certain driving humming shopkeeper to sell the items. (bonus points if they make any of the music available) easy ff14 quality event

Yup, exactly! Agreed. The pods would make great minions. The swords would be awesome for samurais. The outfits would be fantastic glamours. And NieR orchestrion music? Yessss please.

[Nestama]

Okay, but.

We got a Yokai Watch event.

Do you think you can post that again, with that in mind? XD

Quite easily. Yokai are magic demon things set in a world where rules are lax (and since only the Yokai appeared in XIV, it kinda worked. I still didn't do it, though. Atma was enough), whereas NieR is set on the planet Earth, where magic never existed until Drakengard's Ending E came along and ruined the future of mankind.

While that ending did introduce magic to Earth, I think only a chosen few could use it (those with the Grimoire after they were created, Black Scrawl infection, the Shades and those who were created to be weapons). By Automata, magic is pretty much nonexistent again.

So again: If it's just clothing, then it's possible. Anything else is pushing/breaking the lore for both games.

Any android (especially main characters) from Automata cannot appear in FFXIV, as that is breaking the lore of Automata.

[RubyCirha]

Well in theory it's posable becks noctis's sword the engine blade is in neir so there is already a cross over type deal in neir so why not cross it over in to ff14

[Nestama]

If it's clothing and weapons, that's fine (we got boomerang books and gun-knuckles from the FFXIII event). Anything more is disregarding lore of both games.

[Yasuhiro]

Dressing up as 2B with FFXIV's Lightning tier flat butts would be a disservice to the character. :c

[Evergrey]

"DS: A while ago, you mentioned the possibility of a crossover event with Final Fantasy XV, how are the plans for that proceeding? Is there any chance of a crossover event with Nier: Automata?

NY: If we were to consider some sort of crossover or collaboration, it would probably be with Final Fantasy XV, but right now all of our resources are focused on 4.0, so we’ll have to wait for until after release before we start even considering it.

For example, our collaboration with the Garo IP took a whole year just to get the assets creation done. If you include the promotional discussions, and the contract negotiations, it’s about a year and a half in total. So, that’s how seriously we would approach it if we were to do some sort of collaboration. It would take time, but if there is any sort of progress we’ll make sure to inform the players."
http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/03/...ments-paladin/

My guess is that DS misspelled XIV in their question. Considering this interview was about XIV after all.

[Luxyn]

@Evergrey: Nope, this is in regards to a XV x XIV event which is in progress, so we'll be seeing that soon. =D

@Nestama: When it comes to it disregarding the lore of both games, who really cares about that is what I think. The entire point of a crossover event is to disregard the barriers between the two things and to bring them into each other - in which case in XIV 2B would be likely an Allagan android. It's called "artistic liberty", and I'd prefer that method. =P

We had a Dragonquest event before too. Does that at all make sense if you take lore into account? I don't think we should be concerned with the lore being a barrier to having a fun event, especially when they're always a very brief and temporary thing. https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Seasonal_Events

Edit: For example, the entire KH franchise is a crossover between FF and Disney. Should we say KH shouldn't exist because "it's disregarding the lore of FF"? Imagine if that was said by someone at SE, we wouldn't have KH. =/

[Nestama]

Yoshi-P kinda cares. If I'm remembering correctly, he wants the lore to make sense for both games (hence why I've been mentioning magic at all). Characters like Red XIII will never appear in FFXIV because they're endangered. Characters like Kefka or Zack won't appear in FFXIV because they're dead. Characters with a conclusion to their story will not appear, either.

As for the Dragon Quest event, that was entirely a 'Ze Puff Puff' homage (every character involved was a XIV race) and the golems aren't really out of place. They're just 'tidier, non-catface' magic rocks. You're grasping for straws by using KH as an argument (as the FF characters used in that game are not directly from the game they originally came from... unless Yuna, Rikku and Paine were pixies in FFX-2 the entire time and I never noticed).

[KokonoeAiyoko]

Yokai did not fit FFXIV at all lol. I'd argue neither of the cross over events really made sense in a serious way, they're just kinda there, but if you were to take them serious in any way, you'd find that the excuses/stories aren't well written enough to actually fit in the world.

I don't care about NieR Automata at all, but a NieR Automata event is not any more or less logical or cohesive than the FFXI, Dragon Quest, or Yokai Watch events.

[Nestama]

The FFXI, XIII and Dragon Quest events did make sense, though. Shantotto is capable of traversing through the void at will (A Shantotto Ascension), Iroha was sent to Eorzea (though at which point in the Rhapsodies storyline is unclear), Lightning 'trained' in Eorzea as she was in crystal-stasis (Eorzea was a dream of sorts or some nonsense. She can never return to Eorzea, though, as she now lives in a world without magic) and the Dragon Quest event, as said above, involved mostly XIV characters.