Well. It's part of the main series and that's never going to change. So we can debate it forever, but in reality, nothing happens. FFXI is FFXI. It's an online Final Fantasy. All the crazy things that have happened have pretty much come and gone, since, what it is, is a relationship between you and other people you meet. The first time I met Soumakyou on Midgard, the highest level Dragoon before he quit, or Tarutim the US Black Mage who somehow made it to be the first US player to enter an established JP linkshell is just like finding out why Cloud has qualms with Barret, yet deeper. Those things you'll never get to experience if you didn't play FFXI from the start, because those players have come and gone, but you can still experience people you meet in FFXI, although after 10 years they might not be as spunky. But that's what Final Fantasy is, it's the relationships, adventures, and crazy things you come across while moving through this complex story. That's why FFXI fits in the series.
I'm not really friends with Barret anymore, but I know at least two people I've met in FFXI that I still talk to till this very day.
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