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.

I think it was unpopular because it was crystal tower specifically. we hated getting it in roulette and basically got told we'd get it a lot more please look forward to it! Eden is that best raid series story and fight wise imo and the ff8 remixes go hard. It's also level 80 so we actually have some buttons.