Ivalice may not continue

[GrizzlyTank]

I didn't care for the Ivalice raid and its storyline back in Stormblood. (too many cutscenes with long explanations.)
However, I really enjoy the Bozja sidequest, and I would love to see it get a proper conclusion, with cutscenes and gameplay content.
Considering the fact the game still has a huge playerbase, and is financially healthy for SE, rushing the end of such a long quest in a poor fieldnote feels like a middle finger to the players who enjoyed this content. And to be honest, it makes me fear for the futur of FFXIV is developpers start to rush things that way.

But then again they might have had more planned that ended up gutted due to covid and that they couldn't fit into the rest of their future content.

[Sotatsu]

But then again they might have had more planned that ended up gutted due to covid and that they couldn't fit into the rest of their future content.

I agree the pandemic didn't help, for sure. And I was totally okay with the development team delaying patchs to maintain the overall game quality at a good level without them having to endure crazy crunch hours.

But delaying patchs, and cutting the ending of a story like this, without facing its main antagonist, who has been teased for 2 years. I don't know... I don't buy it.

To me, it would've been better to just leave us with that last cutscene after the Dalriada raid, and keep the door open for a potential sequel after Endwalker (1, 2, 5 years later, I don't mind).
Gabranth's legion is no longer affiliated with Garlemald, so it was still possible for him to continue his crusade, even with the fall of the empire.
I don't know, it feels there were better ways to end this story aside from the fieldnote "conclusion". Even an optional 1v1 boss fight against Gabranth (like the one against Varis) in a single sidequest would've been better than this.



But well... it is what it is.