While at the end of post-Stormblood, it was the least obvious as ever before what was going to happen for the next expansion, there will still many clues. The difficulty of figuring out where we were going next had just been upped.
Final Fantasy XIV is great for players who like Eastern Eggs and like figuring out riddles and theorycrafting. They always drop hints as to where we're going in the future, for players smart enough to figure them out.
In this case, we're very close to knowing about the next expansion, February 5th. But we've been given a note on New Years Eve, a hint from an interview that there are clues to the future in Heavensward, and 5.4 is one of the preliminary two Patches that sets up the story for the next expansion.
Lots of gaming communities are really good at, and love puzzle and riddle solving of this variety. With a lot of people dedicating their time to piecing things together and solving things left by developers. Undertale fans are fixated on uncovering everything about WD Gaster and figuring out where Deltarune is going. There are entire channels like Shesez to looking beyond boundaries of games and finding things out. People are still theorizing about things about Giygas in the Mother series.
A lot of the time, when developers leave hints and riddles, the community are fast to decipher them. Fans even make vast theories and connections where there are none, just very strong coincidences that make things look that way. When a community of passionate and dedicated riddle solvers come together, they almost always solve the riddles game developers put forth. We have an official, albeit flawed, Legend of Zelda timeline, because of dedicated fans piecing the Zelda stories together.
The question is, are we that community? Do we have a good track record of deciphering the writing team's puzzles? Does the community have an amazing theory yet of where the story is headed, and what the next expansion will be?
What are some of the most supported and leading theories for the future? How many people predicted we were going to the First in Shadowbringers?
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Final Fantasy XIV is great for players who like Eastern Eggs and like figuring out riddles and theorycrafting. They always drop hints as to where we're going in the future, for players smart enough to figure them out.
In this case, we're very close to knowing about the next expansion, February 5th. But we've been given a note on New Years Eve, a hint from an interview that there are clues to the future in Heavensward, and 5.4 is one of the preliminary two Patches that sets up the story for the next expansion.
Lots of gaming communities are really good at, and love puzzle and riddle solving of this variety. With a lot of people dedicating their time to piecing things together and solving things left by developers. Undertale fans are fixated on uncovering everything about WD Gaster and figuring out where Deltarune is going. There are entire channels like Shesez to looking beyond boundaries of games and finding things out. People are still theorizing about things about Giygas in the Mother series.
A lot of the time, when developers leave hints and riddles, the community are fast to decipher them. Fans even make vast theories and connections where there are none, just very strong coincidences that make things look that way. When a community of passionate and dedicated riddle solvers come together, they almost always solve the riddles game developers put forth. We have an official, albeit flawed, Legend of Zelda timeline, because of dedicated fans piecing the Zelda stories together.
The question is, are we that community? Do we have a good track record of deciphering the writing team's puzzles? Does the community have an amazing theory yet of where the story is headed, and what the next expansion will be?
What are some of the most supported and leading theories for the future? How many people predicted we were going to the First in Shadowbringers?
Continue reading...