Crystal Tower

[Rokien]

I was just curious if the Crystal Tower was going to be instanced or not.

I am also hoping it's going to be part of the world, not something that you go in for a few hours and be done with it, rinse and repeat. I want something to explore with everyone or go in there solo and test my skills. I want a challenge to get to the top that might take a month or so for the best players.

I cannot see that happening if it was instanced. What would you guys want instanced or open world. Or maybe a mix of both?

[Answa]

You never played Nyzul, I see.

[Estellios]

Yes I'm hoping it's a whole new Nyzul Isle type thing.

[Sag]

This could be an open zone with specific instanced areas (we unlock the access with a quest/item/level/class/job, etc...)
Corridors, lots of floors with difficulty raising... Hum, let's get back on earth for now.
we look to expand FFXIV, some of our visions for the future, such as releasing content based in Worlds from previous FF titles
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Hard to stop dreaming...

[Estellios]

Also the 2.0 preview .pdfs say that the Crystal Tower houses large-scale instanced raids.

[Rokien]

I have done it?

[KoujiGeki]

Crystal tower is that like Demon Shaft from Dark Cloud..... cause that would be AWESOME!!!

[Ruisu]

I cannot see that happening if it was instanced.

Why. That has absolutely nothing to do with the difficulty/amount of content located within the game. Though it would be neat to see the whole thing be open world, but not everyone starts on the same floor. Interactions and whatnot. However they're wanting to give the game a more "Final Fantasy" vibe that everyone was complaining the original game lacked. Meaning that if they made it instanced, it could have more of a FF feel by having eight adventurers isolated in the tower alone, as compared to dozens.

Channels would be a terrible implementation for this game and hopefully they never resort to that. Instances themselves are fine, so long as it isn't an actual open world zone like Thanalan or something.

[Picoman]

Crystal Tower is going to be epic, i can feel it in my bones.

Would be cool if it had 100 levels and tons of uber loot. ^^

[Lyndis]

Nyzul Isle was neat. Not crystal tower neat. That was just extremely repetitive and uninteresting.

I like the open area with multiple instances if instances must be used. Bring back what it was in FFIII or maybe something like the lighthouse in FFXII.