Yoshi, why isn't there a Monster Hunter Collaboration yet!?

[Lambdafish]

The Garo promotion is likely the result of getting Keita Amemiya on board for the Return to Ivalice monster design not Keita coming to FFXIV.

There it is! I knew all collabs had stories behind them, here they are:

- Lightning returns: Organised when Yoshi P hung out with the XIII-3 director at E3 and they thought it would be a cool idea
- Original XI event: celebrating the 10th anniversary of XI (XIV's sister game) I believe
- Dragon Quest event: celebrating a Dragon Quest anniversary (a bit of background, Yoshi P has worked on multiple dragon quest games, being the director of the Dragon Quest Battle Road games, and the Planner Chief of Dragon Quest X - so he has a huge connection with the franchise)
- Second XI event: celebrating the release of XIs final expansion, and acting as a sendoff to XI and torch passing between the two games
- Yokai: The CEO of level 5 is a friend of Yoshi Ps, and they discussed the event in a casual environment, with Level 5 creating most of the assets.
- Garo: As you said, this is a result of Keita Amemiya working on return to Ivalice.

Any future events would involve Yoshi P having ready access to those who have the authority to permit a collaboration event, and he won't actively seek out these connections.

The Monster Hunter and Phantasy Star Online 2 requests were not really outside the realm of possibility considering both Monster Hunter 4U (2014) and Phantasy Star Online 2 (2016) had crossovers with Final Fantasy. Phantasy Star's even directly ported assets from Final Fantasy XIV.

This would depend on who made the call. Monster Hunter is actually outside the realm of possibility right now, as it was not an XIV event, it was armor designed by Tetsuya Nomura. Yoshi P does not have any affiliation or ready contact with either Capcom, nor those from SE who collaborated on Monster Hunter, and he would need to seek out those connections in order to do a collaboration event.

Phantasy Star Online 2 is slightly more feasible, though I believe Yoshi P actively stated that they weren't pursuing it.

Don't be so certain. They could be working out the legalities of the 2018 crossover event right now.

Possible, but doubtful, considering the above.