Well, like, my point is there's a difference between "goofy ass fanservice mashup of everything ever" and "stylistic / visual callbacks, clever references, and a sense of the eclectic variety that is really the only constant between FF games", and I'm fervently begging the Twelve for lots of the latter and only a little bit if any of the former.

There's lots of different ways to do fanservice, and the fact that people are actually, actively hoping for nostalgia copypasta is worrying to me as I didn't really buy into the world and storyline of Eorzea hoping that it'd gradually turn into Dissidia Online. If that's the direction Yoshida and his people actually want to take it, I can't really do anything and I'll probably even enjoy it, but it doesn't mean I'm going to be happy about it in the short term, and more importantly, I'm fairly sure that's -not- what they have planned and people should adjust their expectations accordingly.