Minor Update on how this is going and some clarifications about how this is going to proceed going forward.

I know I am currently playing XI and have "skipped" XII, but I will be playing XII next and I even gave myself a minor challenge for that run which I will explain when we get there. I did not start XII because I was originally planning on playing XI and XII at the same time, but both games are so involving, that plan fell to the wayside. Since I was more likely to drop XI first, I opted to stick with it instead and make it my focus the last few months as my thread has shown.

So what about XIV? Well I also skipped that because I wanted to give XI every opportunity to impress me, so I opted to ignore XIV until I finish enough of XI to have a better feel for the experience before I jump into the more modern, user-friendly, and bells and whistles edition of FFMMO. With that said, XI has been such a time sink, that XIV is probably not happening until 2026. I don't have it in me to start another MMO and I will need to do more research, because like XI, I'm probably only going to play up until the first expansion, which I can already hear some of the XIV vets among you groaning because I've heard countless times that XIV doesn't really get good until a few expansions in. But as I said, I have a year to think about it. Who knows, maybe I'll acquire a PS5 by then and have access to XVI and Rebirth by then? Probably not, but we can always dream.

So the next question here, is how am I going about sequels and spin-offs? I will tackle some of them, but my new rule for myself is that I am not going to hold myself to play, let alone finish any of them. So while I may start a few, I am very likely to drop most of them before completion like I did with Lightning Returns. I will say right now, that I will not be playing Revenant Wings. I strongly disliked that game and the devs themselves don';t really consider it canon either, so I am not going to either.

As for X-2, I am debating whether I will continue my PS2 playthrough I started a while back or if I will play the International Final Mission version. If I go for the latter, it will probably just be Any Completion run, because I don't think I have it in me to try to start a new 100% completion file. Especially since X-2 wears on my patience pretty quickly.

I have also been debating about doing the VII Remake before playing VII, but we'll see. I wasn't really planning on playing the Compilation of VII entries on account that most of them are terrible games. So this pretty much leaves The After Years as the only "sequel' I really do plan on playing and finishing if my patience holds out.

As for FFTactics, I was planning on throwing it in here, but may drop it. The only stipulation that will make me throw it in here is if a Remaster gets announced. Ball is in your court Squenix.

So that's the run down. So basically:
1. Finish XI
2. XII
3. X
4. Maybe X-2
4. IX... and so on.