Moving forward, what expansion 'themes' would you like to see?

[Sotaris]

A Nordic expansion but I am biased.

Altho less Hollywoodized and stereotyped, I am kinda tired of Nordic countries and people from back in the day being portrayed as dirty and bleak and like it's all either snow or grey ( Just wat? Looking at you Skyrim. ).
They always fall into the '' they're not part of the Abrahamic religions so they're savage '' trope.
Sure snowy landscape far to the north but Nordic countries are very colorful and with great nature.

Also great mythology to draw from, and a lot of architecture that isn't rly explored in the game.

Norse themed. We fight Odin (although we already do that in arr), Freya, Thor and Loke.

[Neoyoshi]

I don't know, something super anime-like i guess; but if i had to be honest; Space Travel.

I know we are going to the moon, and in Shadowbringers we technically were star-hopping thanks to our best guy cat.

But i really would love to see something akin to Star Ocean; where there is this mixture of high fantasy and space travel where we have a space ship and can go visit and discover new planets of solar systems.

I feel like i'm talking about multiple games and MMO's mixed all together.

[Jandor]

Exploring Meracydia could be cool, I do like the idea of it tying it in with your GC and setting up an outpost there.

Old Allagan era but not allagan ruins to explore, maybe some kind of South American/Australian mash-up of cultures to interact with, a dash of Pirates of the Caribbean type shenanigans, and some decently high stakes to the story but with the whole thing feeling more exploration and adventure themed than saving the world.

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On a semi-related note, I hope we get a bit of time-skip after 6.0, and a proper timeline for the events of the Zodiark-Hydealyn arc, and the twins grown-up a bit.

[Hanayumi]

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Personally? I'd like to see some kind of a wilderness-themed expansion; small outposts, huge pine forests, dusty trails, haunted mines - something very much akin to the American/Canadian/Alaskan west. I also wouldn't mind an Ivalician expansion (Yes, we visited some major areas, but spending an entire xpack in the former Ivalice could be cool). And, finally, it might be cool to do an expansion themed around southern Asia - like, Tibet, Indian jungle ruins, etc. However, I could definitely be sold on a number of other ideas.

What would you like to see?

Its likely the New World a continent to the west is something along the the lines of a pre colonized America, a lot of which is still very unexplored. Would be very interesting to visit and explore, might even be possible to have open world PVP there, maybe fending over for certain areas and such.

[Brandedblade]

I'm going to go a little nuts with this one. On a less serious note I want the WoL and Scions go on a vacation, an expansion with low stakes, nothing bigger then "Stop a volcano from destroying a village that grows wonderful grapes". That is actually my sincere hope that after 6.0 the devs just let us relax for a few patches with low stakes vacation shenanigans before introducing the next cosmic horror that will inevitably replace the Hydaelyn/Zodiark thing.

As for something more serious, I've always secretly wanted a time travel expansion where we go to Allag in it's prime. I love Allagan aesthetics and the concept of the 'ancient civilization far more advanced then the current one' and would *love* to see even more of it.