To Louisoix

[Alerith]

Or....follow me here.....we play the game in two timelines.

The first is successful 1.0, where you halted Dalamud and prevented the 7th Umbral Era.

Then there's what we saw in the trailer, where you DIDN'T succeed.

A pair of cavernous maws connect the worlds.

BAZINGA.

[SirOleas]

>_> I think everyone is assuming he has control over this ability.

It could just be something that accidentally happens.

[Aryden]

As others here have already mentioned, going backwards in time would create a paradox in which events that we have experienced already in game might never happened at all if we went back and stopped them. If that was the case, everything we have experienced thus far would be erased, but since we have knowledge of it, it means we haven't gone to the past to change it.

To be honest, time travel is an easy way out in terms of story development. I understand that they had to do something to move forward with the game, but it is still a let down.

Other things that bother me with the future of the game include:

1) What the heck happened to my companion? I know she was a little freaky and spent too much time in the Miner's Guild, but where has she been?

2) The voice in the opening CS/mission who gently reminded us to "think....feel..." So what the heck was that about?

3) The power of the Echo. Yeah...powerful stuff right there. Didn't do much good did it. And that little organization we belong to that helps us understand our power...didn't do anything. Sad.

There are plenty of other nuances with the story and lore that bug me, but I just thought I would toss those out there. I hope in 2.0 they answer more questions than they create. And don't come at me with the whole "that was a different director/producer" crap. Fix the lore. Build a culture. Create an environment.

/gets off soap box

[Mudd]

To me it sounds like he placed us in stasis, or some form of Purgatory. Not so much cast us forward in time..

[Valmonte]

To me it sounds like he placed us in stasis, or some form of Purgatory. Not so much cast us forward in time..

That's what I'm thinking trapped in the flow of the aether, it would also make the most sense considering our other enemy Oversized Helmet Bad Guy Number 2, has attempted on multiple occasions to stop the flow of aether by binding the aetherite Crystals and destroying the aether nodes.

[Emulord]

Thanks for your sacrifice Louisoix, each breath I'll take in the fresh air of the new Eorzea land will be dedicated to you, you who relentlessly helped me level my DoH jobs.





Well, he was getting on the veeeeeeery old side anyways...

[neorei]

Louisoix with the power of dalmund and knowledge of primals......................he will become odin.

[Nel_Celestine]

Quick, to Louisoix's time travel machine!

[Punainen]

You know its a videogame, right? Paradoxes don't matter, because if you want to get all technical...well almost nothing else in this game could exist either.

It does say "fight to REFORGE the fate of Eorzea". Which makes it sound like it already had a fate but then we try to change it.

[Arcell]

We're definitely not going back in time to stop Dalamud. We clearly don't stop it, it is the reason for the drastic map/terrain changes. I see it like this: We can stay in the present and die guaranteed or we can go do whatever Louisoix has planned and live to save Eorzea from the remaining Garlean forces.

It doesn't say that we are sent forward in time but for all intents and purposes we are no longer here when Dalamud hits and we reappear some point afterwards. Whether it's some kind of alternate dimension or purgatory or whatever, time passes without us being there.