(Wildly speculative) idea about the next overarching threat - *spoilers*

[RukoBoshi]

I have a sneaking suspicion Yoshi-P and the dev team purposefully moved assets into FFXVI development so they can upscale it, get things done in a reasonable manner, and then move those assets back INTO FFXIV for the big graphical update. 2 birds, one stone.

Oh you're right, that sounds possible. I'm sure there's a lot of elements that would translate well from FFXVI to FFXIV since they got the same engine.
With the devs who worked on FFXVI seemingly returning to FFXIV, the team will be well equipped to make the game feel more modern in terms of textures and lightning.

[RyuDragnier]

Oh you're right, that sounds possible. I'm sure there's a lot of elements that would translate well from FFXVI to FFXIV since they got the same engine.
With the devs who worked on FFXVI seemingly returning to FFXIV, the team will be well equipped to make the game feel more modern in terms of textures and lightning.

It might result in some epic fight scenes again too. If I recall, the last really big epic fight scene we had was Shinryu vs Omega at the end of HW...which is when I suspect they started working on FFXVI.