Relic Cutscenes Missing from The Unending Journey

[NaiaLalita]

Today, after taking 3 years to finally finish an Anima relic, I had the distinct displeasure to learn that Relic weapon quests and cutscenes are somehow absent from The Unending Journey.

For content that takes such a significant amount of time to access, and is finite, this boggles my mind.

My own personal disbelief and broken heart over this aside, I'd really like to see this remedied in the future. There are so many cases where someone could put in all this effort and then get locked out of such cutscenes, and never be able to see it as a result.

Internet hiccup? Cutscene gone forever.
Real life emergency forcing you to skip? You'll never see it now.
Optimistic about being able to re-watch it in The Unending Journey? Well... what a terrible time to have trust broken.
Cat jump on your keyboard? Dog trip over your PC/console power plug? Tough luck.

I illustrate this to build a case in favor of letting players in this scenarios - as well as literally any other player who wants to relive brief moments of triumph in tremendous grind fests - access the cutscenes they earned via The Unending Journey.

I would like to see the completion of my own Anima relic journey.

Lacking the ability to go back in time to better safeguard my own misfortune, I'd at least like to foster the future possibility of this never happening to anyone else again.

[Raile]

Unfortunately over a year later, this is still the case. I was just doing the anima quest, got into a light farming group, and about halfway through doing the last sequence of cutscenes before we did the "victory lap" I decided they were taking way too long. Everyone else was ready since they skipped scenes, so I skipped and figured I'd use unending journey.

But nope, no unending journey for this. So I won't be seeing these, not with my character at least. I'll find them on youtube later I guess.

Really don't understand why unending journey just lacks certain quests for no apparent reason. But there's a lot of random holes in the game like this...

[LoneKiltedNinja]

It is now 2025. Had to miss the midpoint of the Reconditioned Anima grind since a 20-minute queue popped 10 minutes early, and now I see there's a whole Weapon Enhancement Sidequests category... that is completely empty even though I've also completed the ARR relic chain (and holy heck is THAT one a commitment). Knowing that I literally cannot queue during these grinds or I'll miss content forever is going to be a big sore point...

If I had to guess, I would guess that the reason the quests aren't there is that they are, for the most part, gearset-specific while Unending Journey will show you the cutscene in whatever you happen to be wearing. So allowing playback of the latestage Relic segment you unlocked on e.g. PLD would mean you could go back and watch it as WHM and thereby (a) have it make no sense when not equipped with that stage's relic, or worse (b) force you into that job's relic for the cutscene and have it spoil what the other job relics are (as if you can't look up everything below current content online anyway). And the sheer amount of _stuff_ the game needs to load for the inn room interactables is already why half of them can't be placed in private residences, so on a game this big, old, and crunchy, it might literally be impossible anymore to _route_ the data for what the character is currently equipped with into the UJ subsystem for the purposes of theoretically adding gear gates to scene selection.

But still.
It's 2025.
And the relic quests are still a big differentiator for players who have gotten seriously into the game.
Surely, while it might be an absolute pain, it can't be _impossible_ impossible, right?

[Supersnow845]

The unending journey is missing quite a few important cutscenes

Of the 30 or so cutscenes surrounding binding coils of Bahamut only about 20 of them are in the unending journey for example