Dear SE

[Syln]

Let's agree that we disagree

As far as i'am concerned, it was the best alliance raid since this game release and i'm really sad that this cross over is finished.

[Jojoya]

Let's agree that we disagree

As far as i'am concerned, it was the best alliance raid since this game release and i'm really sad that this cross over is finished.

It's not truly finished yet. They've already told us doing the weeklies will unlock more of the story until you finally reach the "real" end.

[ItMe]

It's not truly finished yet. They've already told us doing the weeklies will unlock more of the story until you finally reach the "real" end.

True, but I don't know how much we should expect from those...
I'm not gonna pin my hopes on the weekly quests doing so much narrative heavy lifting.

[Jojoya]

Dear SE,

Please do a drakengard one next.

Mostly for the glams, but also to annoy the people who don't like crossovers, even though XIV has had them since.... Like 2.1

At least other crossovers were done in a way that blended them well into FFXIV.

This one didn't. It felt like it was coming from an entirely different game (because it was).

[ItMe]

At least other crossovers were done in a way that blended them well into FFXIV.

This one didn't. It felt like it was coming from an entirely different game (because it was).

Speak for yourself.
I thought the Ivalice raids were pretty terribly integrated.
Almost like the awful exposition to desperately try and establish it all somewhere in 14 was just a bunch of artificial hoops to establish 2 other games settings within 14 (because it was).

14 has a pretty terrible track record with alliance raid storylines imo.

[Vahlnir]

14 has a pretty terrible track record with alliance raid storylines imo.

Crystal Tower has probably been their best so far story wise, at least in my opinion. I've personally had way more fun in the Nier raids though than I have with any other 24 man before it, even if the story was mediocre in places. The bosses are fun and the mechanics are engaging, but it was clearly fanservice for the most part and little more. Nothing wrong with that unless you're looking for a good story. FF XIV has suffered from its own writing more than once. Heavensward's opening patch was good stuff, but just about everything before and after that was...bland at best, at least to me. Then Shadowbringers came along and blew everything else out of the water with its MSQ and Sorrow of Werlyt storylines. Bozja's got a good story too but I know not everyone enjoys Bozja.

[Jojoya]

Speak for yourself.
I thought the Ivalice raids were pretty terribly integrated.
Almost like the awful exposition to desperately try and establish it all somewhere in 14 was just a bunch of artificial hoops to establish 2 other games settings within 14 (because it was).

14 has a pretty terrible track record with alliance raid storylines imo.

I've never played any of the games represented in any of the crossovers so I had no expectations about the content going into the crossovers.

The rest didn't make me feel like I was being pulled out of FFXIV into a totally different game. Yorha did. I felt like I was being asked to play a completely different game that I had zero interest in playing. It was very immersion breaking, which is a bad thing to experience with a RPG.

I wouldn't call the story lines great either (that's always iffy with content that's more combat focused than narrative focused) but at least I had no problem accepting those storylines as part of the FFXIV game world/lore. Yorha simply doesn't fit in.

[Sotaris]

Please never do a 3 part cross-over raid ever again. If this was supposed to make me want to play Nier it achieved the opposite.

Quite the opposite for me. It got me into Automata and preorder Replicant, hype for 23rd!

I'd also go as far as saying this raid series been probably my favorite so far in this game.

[Bright-Flower]

I feel like they handled the plot poorly but I liked the actual raids themselves.

[PMSJordan]

These raids actually got me interested in NieR. I just bought and started playing the last one on Steam. I will most likely pick up the new one soon since I'm enjoying the gameplay.