I wish SE would create a proper sequel for FFT on consoles

Sequel might happen, on consoles, never. It'll soon be 20yrs since its last visit to them.

Great. Now make it singleplayer game as it's supposed to be and I'm on board.

Unfortunately, yes. Although it isn't noticeable in the first, let's say, 10 to 15 levels, there's a point where basically the game keeps halting your "singleplayer" progress to push the MMO aspect onto you; mainly dungeons and raids, which the main story requires you to do, but you do require other players in order to tackle them. Depending on the dungeon you can sometimes take up to an hour not doing anything at all just waiting for a party to gather and do it. It's even worse when you're paired with people that has done that specific raid numerous times, as they skip all the cutscenes (it doesn't affect you, you basically prevent them from going on if you don't skip the cutscene yourself) or bomb the chat, or just try and go ahead and get to the boss ignoring the rest of the dungeon. This even applies to some specific bosses, whose raid sequence is just the boss fight itself (story-wise, you have to fight certain espers, like Ifrit), but yet the game expects you to wait for a party to gather, and that takes a lot of time.

It doesn't really let you get to your own pace beyond that point, and you have to just play as an MMO whether you want or not. Best case scenario would be joining a guild and make friends that would let you, but then again that's a MMO staple too.

Beyond that, the main story (or certain sidequests) try their best to keep the singleplayer narrative going, but sometimes they make some incredibly boring sequences just to push yet another MMO aspect onto you, like when the game forcibly makes you choose a Grand Company between the main cities to join, but also forces you to visit each one of the big cities to watch a speech about higher causes that tries to convince you which Grand Company to join.

So FFXIV is Ivalice all this time? If they introduce Veira as playable characters, I'll sign up again.

I'm just speculating, but according to FFXIV The Encyclopedia Eorzea, Ivalice itself is a landmass located north of Othard.

Source: https://i.redd.it/breqrfe2tlgy.jpg

The Encyclopedia Eorzea says Dalmasca is in Othard, so I think the whole of Ivalice is somewhere in the mist on the world map.

Click to enlarge: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4_dXXwUcAA0dcr.jpg:large

This just in. Here is some new pics.

You guys recognize this place right?

source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/patch/4_1

Starting to think i shouldnt have stopped playing this game. What turned me away though was the forced dungeons to progress the story. Id have to leave the game searching for hours to join an instance back in the day.

So... are they adding Viera as playable characters or what?

the image url was broken, sorry about that. It's fix now.