Thread: 8.0 speculation

Originally Posted by Cleretic

Yeah, that's WHY they wouldn't do it for Eden. Crystal Tower being made mandatory was ridiculously unpopular, and Crystal Tower is maybe the single easiest side-content ask you can make; it's just three instances and they're all such cakewalks that you're more likely to die to someone getting bored and deciding to wipe the team for fun than actual difficulty.

Meanwhile, with twelve instances and fights that really don't hold back, Eden is plausibly the hardest ask you could make. (The Arcadion might be harder, but I think that's got one or two really hard fights while Eden's just reliably heavy hitters.) And all for what? Fanservice for a character those people only might have heard of if they play an entirely unrelated game?

The developers of this game are not that stupid. That would genuinely damage the game.


And as for the Fanfest rewards: Yeah, we got FFVII rewards for Shadowbringers, and FFX outfits for Stormblood. Sometimes those are just an excuse to vomit out some fanservice and it isn't actually foreshadowing. I would absolutely write them off as nostalgia bait items, because there's a decent chance that they're just that, and you won't find out that they are until you have better evidence to talk about anyway.

As I said, if they are not going to make Eden manditory but still make Gaia important for main storyline later as a Main Character, they can stick to the system they have now and adjust dialogue based on if players finish Eden Raid or not OR they add a Recap system that allows players to get a simple summary of all important parts of Eden Raid story without needing to do it so that the Main storyline will always assume Eden raid was done by the Player and players can choose to play Eden Raid or not just to get the direct experience with what happened beyond the short recap.

They do not need to make Eden Raid required if they decide to make Gaia a main character for this new Main Story arc since they won't need to reference Eden Raid often during and after the base X.0 expansion Main Story unless it is for important lore topics involving the Main story. Just fill in the gaps with dialogue referencing what happened IF WoL never got involved in the side content as they always do.