Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
I don't mind crossovers per se. I just dislike shoddy connections.
The Ivalice raid series being thrown in the game already broke canon. Due to the timelines and locations not matching up, they had to say that Dalmasca was actually taken over later than what three lore book says and they moved city to a different continent and had to say it was actually “Nhalmasque” they were talking about.

Not much in this game is planned out from the very beginning and a lot of what you mentioned are retroactively welded to the canon. In Tanaka’s 1.0, the Allagans were snail-eating onion knights who built long-lasting brick roads and were famous for adventurers. Porting FF3 into the game changed that.

In 1.0, there was no talk at all about shards and the void was just a bad place of negative energy. They just retconned it later on in Heavensward to be a shard.

In 1.0, there was no Amdapor or Mhach. Which confuses the timelines since they had dunesfolk lalafell, which in 1.0 originate from a desert island south of Eorzea and moved to Thanalan because it reminded them of home. The whole newer ARR thing with the ages has already confused things a bit since in 1.0, it was common knowledge that the elezen were in Eorzea first and the hyur invaded after. So how do we know that but also be living on top of ruined civilizations we barely know anything about? I thought that may have been a retcon, yet that whole scenario remains on the First where there were no calamities.

This whole game is being written by the seat of their pants. There isn’t much of a master plan and everything is being connected after the fact. Yoshi even admitted as such in one of the interviews ahead of ShB. In 4 years time, it’s possible that something to do with the NieR raid connects to a new expansion. Just give it time.