I drew my prediction of "big event" before next expansion (Spoilers).

[Neoyoshi]

I really love the concept art, well done.

If I'm to be honest though, I'd rather explore space in the next expansion.

Starfield can't get here soon enough. ; __ ;

[SentioftheHoukai]

Honestly? Spaghetti code excuse or not, FFXIV not being able to facilitate ideas like this is actually a bad thing.

So many better things could be implemented if only they'd do something about their crappy framework. Of course, something tells me an expansion where the villain gains any ground at all and one of the Scions is imperiled is no longer welcome as a narrative by this community so they'd literally never do any of this even if they had the hardware to.

Nice art, though.

[Theodric]

Great art!

I'm with you on hoping that the development team do something bold to help kickstart the game's second season of storytelling into high gear. A lot of people like to say that they can't do X, Y or Z because of A, B or C and yet...other MMO's have done similar things to various degrees of scale and success.

Even many of the single player Final Fantasy games have done such things and this game is in itself designed to appeal to a broad variety of personal tastes and players. I think it'd get pretty boring rather quickly if every major threat continues to wrap up in a neat little bow with little in the way of lasting, world changing consequences.