Gachas often do collaborations with other games to cross promote one another, like Wuthering Waves recently had a highly regarded collab with Cyberpunk 2077. FFBE was not generally known for retarded/nonsensical collabs like some games were but they did collab twice with Ariana Grande, once with Katy Perry, and once with Addison Rae whoever the hell that is.
You just head on back to the first and don’t forget to talk to someone at the waking sands and regurgitate the recent cut scene that could have been an email. It’s an Ascian. Always. Oh, while you’re at it, go take this letter and rehash the cut scenes again with all the world leaders in one of the randomly chosen capitals to randomly visit.
I grant that ARR is kind of an awful experience that probably turns a lot of players away before they get deeper into FF14 but the Ishikawa era (The Doman half of Stormblood, all of Shadowbringers and Endwalker) is absolutely fantastic. There's a good reason why FF14 players give her a standing ovation every time she shows up for like a fan fest or whatever.
I played through endwalker. I wanted to introduce them to an editor. There’s an ok story there that would be 1000% better if made single player AAA and heavily edited down.
