Quote Originally Posted by ShadowyZero View Post
Hello lore enthusiasts there is burning questions i am wondering for those of you who like myself have been avid fans of the lore, history, and backgrounds of final fantasy xiv for many years.
and that would be how do you feel about the current direction or narrative? would you change anything ? and lastly would you be excited if they wrote a completely original and brand new story come 8.0 an further?
Buddy, the only people who can answer this question with any level of confidence are probably the ones that shouldn't have that confidence. We can't predict the expansion after next and our feelings on it without even knowing where the next expansion is going. Basically the only thing we can all agree on in Dawntrail predictions is that we can't reliably predict crap, because there's clearly very important points on the storyline that we don't know and have no clues on; asking us what we want from 8.0 without having 7.0 is gonna get worse results than asking me to predict the 2028 presidential election.

I feel like the only time in the game's history when this level of long-distance shot of a question was ever plausible was in 2.x; with the upcoming expansion at that time bringing us to Ishgard, the logical next stop would've naturally been the other Eorzean nation that we hadn't been to, and if you're doing an Ala Mhigan story it would've naturally been about the Imperial occupation. We're nowhere near that level of confidence right now; while I'm fairly sure 8.0 will be Meracydia and I have some thought about what I'd want from that (mostly 'area based on Coober Pedy, place based on Uluru as a boss arena'), I have no idea why we'd go there or who would join us. And the history of the game actually teaches me that even that's not high odds, and equally plausible is that we go to Mars and the resulting expansion is somehow considered a modern masterpiece.