Thematic issues. Why all the sci fi.

[Underscore]

I think we should upgrade to modern ages in FFXIV. So everyone can enjoy it, openly. Also to start designing more cars and motorcycle models to replace things like chocobos and horses.
Eorzean highways and more.
So the club scene really explodes and they can start advertising modern clothes IRL too for extra money to design even more things within the formula.

People may not like it, but cash shop is the only way to properly support the company we love and adore, and have been for ages. Fake fans think knights and horses will win, but actual fans know that its a themepark and in a themepark anything goes, I think if they want to add something that didnt make sense before its their right, and we just have to take it and support it. Even discoballs and djs, Ul'dah should be a night club district, and there should be scooters on the street already.
Limsa should have fashion shows, and they should forget about wooden boats, where we could just have modern airships, spaceships and cars driving around. Limsa could be the spaceport, how cool would that be.

Mechas too, I think would be very cool, so we could fight in space. Something very good and surface, nothing too political because that can get very boring very fast. Easy bad vs good, so people dont have to think. Chasing modern trends is what will keep this game franchise alive, so I think the closer we chase things like Cyberpunk and much more, the better product we will have.

Remember to support with money whenever you can, because that is what matters and what will get us all smiling and having fun. Give them money and keep subbing

You joke, but this is what the "final fantasy has always been sci fi, stop complaining!" people unironically believe.

[User202503201232]

You joke, but this is what the "final fantasy has always been sci fi, stop complaining!" people unironically believe.

It's funny how FF14 fanboys and white knights often love Josh Strife Hayes, but JSF has said a lot of things that are applicable to FF14, in a bad way lmao.

You know when an MMO has given up on being a good game and intend to milk its players as much as possible when they give up on thematic cohesion. It started off with the MogStation items, but slowly they've given up on thematic cohesion in the whole game.

[YumieYumiki]

By the ways its not technically science fiction because it's not based on real world science.

This rant is basically "i want fantasy, but not that particular type of fantasy for some reason"

[Apopopo]

Final Fantasy XIV doesn't handle scifi fantasy well. This is a objective fact. Low-tech high fantasy themed expansions were by and far more well received and aged better.

Everyone loves Heavensward and Shadowbringers, Shadowbringers was peak high-fantasy, Heavensward was peak gothic fantasy. However, yet despite these things, they still have ELEMENTS of scifi. Predominantly in the final zones respectively, of course.

Sprinkles of ancient societies are something nobody minds. But when you have the MASSIVE NARRATIVE DISSONANCE that is stuff like literal ROCKET SHIPS and backwater medieval towns. This stuff isn't at all meshed well, or in a well thought out way.

If CBU3 went and actually remolded the world to bring it up to date with the more recent 'advances', IE: showings of magitek in the main three cities, and towns around it, etc. People wouldn't mind as much.

And a side note, to all the degenerates who only want 'modern aesthetics in this game so they can ERP incredibly outlandish things easier', you're not discreet, we know why you want these things. Try playing the game with both hands in the future and leaving the 'club', you might be surprised at how much stuff there is to actually still do.

[RoboticNomad]

The sci-fi doesn't bother me much probably because I hate the new areas and just don't spend any time there, but I understand that it's causing consistency issues with the world.
Shame Square will never give them a budget to do a cataclysm and remodel and update the og zones because I think that'd help a lot. Really they just seem lost post-EW and even that pushed the envelope with a spaceship.

[OMGJesuis66]

And to think, Koana premise was to bring technology to Tural, and literally the newest and peak technology he was capable to bring, was a zeppelin.

Honestly, I miss proper world exploration and fantasy. I do love Dawntrail zones, but I hated the lean on higher tech, even magitek, and it only keeps getting worse.

Kinda funny if you think about it, Alexandria made Garlemald look primitive. The entire identity of that nation is really gone, huh?

[Brandr]

It's funny how FF14 fanboys and white knights often love Josh Strife Hayes, but JSF has said a lot of things that are applicable to FF14, in a bad way lmao.

You know when an MMO has given up on being a good game and intend to milk its players as much as possible when they give up on thematic cohesion. It started off with the MogStation items, but slowly they've given up on thematic cohesion in the whole game.

You're so dishonest in your take that it's ridiculous.
FFXIV is a mainline part of the Final Fantasy series, every single game of the franchise have medieval mixed with sci-fi and you know it.

You may not like, and you don't need to, but it was always there, since the first game.

Even with its problems Dawntrail did took its time to explain how a cyberpunk city was juxtaposed in the middle of a uncolonized barely developed continent.

[User202503201232]

You're so dishonest in your take that it's ridiculous.
FFXIV is a mainline part of the Final Fantasy series, every single game of the franchise have medieval mixed with sci-fi and you know it.

You may not like, and you don't need to, but it was always there, since the first game.

Even with its problems Dawntrail did took its time to explain how a cyberpunk city was juxtaposed in the middle of a uncolonized barely developed continent.

It's almost like you don't understand what "thematic cohesion" actually means, and no, the problem is not that they mixed fantasy with sci-fi.