Keyword Database/Glossary for lore and world terms

[Jonnycbad]

FFXIV lore is so expansive and dense, it's time you introduce in the "Collections" menu a Glossary or Compendium filled with key terms, glossaries, world lore, and dossiers on prominent characters. This can be something automatically updated as side-quests are completed, or "lore" pages that we obtain by completing quests, dungeons, FATEs, etc. Preferably the former though.


It would just be nice to have one central hub where a player can type in a search term like "Echo" or "Primal" and get an official definition for the player's current progress (which of course gets updated as the player progresses deeper in the story".

[glitteringcosmos]

While I think the idea is interesting and something I'd absolutely eat up, I don't think they'd ever do it. They'd just point to the Encyclopaedia Eorzea and call it a day (which sucks because they're so hard to come by... out of print on the NA and EU shops and only obtainable in Japan by physically going to the SE store).

[Iscah]

I would like to see it as a user, but I think keeping it up-to-date according to your game progress could be a nightmare to program.

There's also a sense that, once that text is there in the game, you're expected to read it all to have any idea what people are talking about (and the game may not try as hard to explain it to you directly). From memory it was one of the things that made me give up on FFXIII very quickly - the sheer amount of text in the glossary vs the weird vague concepts that the characters were mentioning.