Originally Posted by
Mirage
Basically, current world gets smurfed up, and those who are playing now are sort of living near the end of days (except we don't really know it). I guess it will be sort of like FF6's WoB/WoR thing, except that the new world won't be as messed up as WoR is. It won't be dying, I guess, just very different.
It is "kind of" the same game, but at the same time it will be very different. You'll be in the same world, with the same races, most of the same places, but the graphics engine, story, and gameplay will be different. The "current" FF14 world will become sort of the lore and backstory of the new world.
Personally, I'm imagining that something strange will happen to our current characters, story wise. For example that the screen fades to white after some epic battle or something, and that we wake up in FF14v2 a few years later (story-wise), which would explain all the changes to the world.