Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
That said, if they go the route of keeping it prominent, I'd love to see more 1.x-style Echo. Running a dungeon through it in 6.x made me nostalgic for the days you could re-create a scene in your mind and play with it in ways that didn't really happen; have conversations with people as if you were there even though those conversations never happened.

Imagine we're interacting with a scene in Sharlayan and Moenbryda walks in. We'd be able to have one last conversation even if it doesn't really exist.

Probably some potential there.
I have always figured that the reason we don't get Echo flashbacks like 1.0's is because they were really confusing; slipping between the 'past' and 'present' was super subtle and unclear, which makes some storylines an utter nightmare to keep track of in the moment. (I felt like I had the most difficulty with Gridania's.) But then, that difficulty largely came from it being very unclear if/when the time things were taking place had changed because very few characters visibly changed.

FFXIV probably could do this better now, because we'd be able to roughly date a scene with, say, Alphinaud by what outfit he's wearing. ...but given what I've seen people get confused by, I think it'd still be a bit much for a lot of players, and I'm not sure it actually adds a lot more than an Echo flashback as they've existed in the live game.