Damn, I must be getting old. "Back in my day, all we had was Fir 1 and we had to grind 100 hours, uphill, to get to the lunar whale!"
At some point, somewhere, we were discussing the recent articles on FF XIV and how they'd been reworking it, apologizing for it, offering free accounts for it, etc. And the phrase "Final Franchise" got stuck in my head, so I resolved to parody the all-too familiar title...