Ivalice may not continue

[RyuDragnier]

I'm going to use this to make another of my unpopular opinions. I wish FFXIV would stop dragging things in from other FF games. It makes me, and I assume at least some others who this as the only FF game they have played feel a little "left out". Even if content is good, you still get that feeling because "oh this is a reference to FF ## and means blah blah blah". Well I could never get into old FF games and didn't play FF ##.

It's also annoying when you hear someone spout some lore point and ask where that's from and you get "oh it was that way in FF YY". Take Male Viera as an example, so many people spouting all this lore about them "oh it was this way in [whatever previous game they were in], so it's going to be that way in FFXIV"

It really does start pissing me off to hear that about half the content it seems like.

Make more original stuff, and less transplanted stuff so we all experience together without the people who have played every FF since the beginning of time knowing half the story.

I mean, SE has at least some awareness of it when they actually made a big deal about the new raids being FFXIV original. I mean think about that, they had to make an issue of that, in every other MMO that would be a given.

And this as an issue is going to grow as more non long time FF players are coming to the game.

Now I'm not against easter eggs and the like, but this has gone WAY beyond that.

Unfortunately (for you), dragging in stuff from other FF games is what helped save FFXIV (1.x had none of those), and helped lead to the game being as big as it is today. Ivalice helped me drag in several of my friends who love FFT, Eden dragged in a friend who loves FF8, the Weapons helped convince a few friends who love FF7. Those references you hate so much help get people interested into this game, so there's no way in hell they'll ever stop.

[Wyssahtyn]

Good. Ivalice was basically just a rehashed Tactics with a bare minimum of effort put in to fit into XIV, not to mention the fact they retconned Dalmasca's location from Ilsabard to Othard rubs me the wrong way. And Bozja's story was asinine. Stopped paying attention to it after the whole Misja or however you spell her name thing, not to mention the shit with Mikoto.

Also, what a dark timeline to live in where Matsuno moves on from XIV without any fanfare and farewell, while Yoko Taro who gave us some of the worst writing in XIV in years is invited on for the next Live Letter.

While I don't care for either of their writing, it's pretty bad that we're going to have to suffer through yet more Yoko Taro before finally (hopefully) being done with him. Guy's probably going to drop some Just As Planned BS during the Live Letter that'll have his fanboys frothing harder at the mouth with their nonsense.