Final Fantasy 14 fans have discovered a horrible big eye in the background of the game's latest Raid.
The Pandaemonium - Abyssos Raid just went live last week in Final Fantasy 14, one of the headline additions of the new patch 6.2. Having presumably grinded out the new Raid a fair few times at this point, one player came to the realization that they were being watched the entire time by a gigantic eye in the sky.
That is unsettling, to say the least. The eye looks like it appears at some point during the Eighth Circle of the Pandaemonium - Abyssos Raid, but from the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit seen just above, it's nigh-on impossible to tell at which point the eye actually appears.
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That hasn't stopped Final Fantasy 14 players guessing what the deal is with the eye. One fan in the comments underneath the subreddit post reckons it's a reference to the Eye of the Invincible from Final Fantasy 9, which actually makes a lot of sense, given that the older RPG actually had its own version of Pandaemonium.
It'll be interesting to see whether the eye is still present in the Savage-tier version of the Abyssos Raid. The normal difficulty version (where this screenshot is taken) launched last week in patch 6.2 on August 23, but the Savage-tier version only just launched earlier today on August 30.
Some players actually think the eye could factor into the Savage-tier Raid in some way. One user in the comments section suspects the new Raid tier might involve a gaze mechanic, which could naturally come from the mysterious eye. We'll have to keep an eye out to see if this is just set dressing, or something more sinister.
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