Bring the world to life...

[Lucifer]

Charred trees, frozen lakes, traveling merchants, remnants of a past war...PLEASE add something to make this lifeless world become more interesting. Every little cave in Uldah and Limsa are exactly the same...I don't want to hear excuses on why everything looks the same, I want something to be done about it.

I'm not going in to details about Gridania...but you should understand, walking through the exact same patch of land over and over again completely ruins immersion and makes you feel detached from the world. It makes it feel small and insignificant.

Add more colors, add some more diverse wild life, that would make me more interested in the game.

[Gath]

Like stalkers?

but it would be fun, maybe they will implement stuffs like this later on

[PM1337]

Charred trees, frozen lakes, traveling merchants, remnants of a past war....

I don't have to read the rest and I am in total agreement with you. There is potential here, SE just has to tap into it. The only problem is that there are too many suggestions and too few hours in the day to add them all in. What SE needs is a really big and strong cup of coffee, or employees that don't need sleep

[Krisan]

I don't think Lifeless is the right word exactly, I think "remarkably peaceful" is a better way of putting it. Mor Dhona's spooky atmosphere aside, the entire world appears no more interesting or abnormal than an average day walking in the park. Hell, even Mor Dhona itself isn't so spooky or interesting when Umbral Weather isn't up.

[Lahru_Hukurou]

I completely agree. Like one said before, I didn't have to read it all to get what the OP was saying. This land seems very uninhabited, except for the few places in the middle of nowhere. We need traveling merchants, a random cabin or six in Coerthas, a hermit living in a tree in Black Shroud, a person wandering that is in need of the help of an adventurer, NPC's roaming the streets of the the three City-States interacting with one another, stores closing for the night, birds flying overhead, residential district, and all the other things that can give this game life.

[Gath]

Everything seems too newish, theres not really any ruins of much anything other than things like Tam Tera Deepcroft.

[Stivow]

Hello there, I think the FFXIV world lacks "atmosphere". I mean if you look at ronfaure, zi'tah or even la theine/konschtat every zone had its own ambiance and atmosphere. Like you guys said, everything in FFXIV is more or less the same. But there definitely is potential !

[Gath]

Hello there, I think the FFXIV world lacks "atmosphere". I mean if you look at ronfaure, zi'tah or even la theine/konschtat every zone had its own ambiance and atmosphere. Like you guys said, everything in FFXIV is more or less the same. But there definitely is potential !

The good thing is that SE has A LOT of room to progress and change stuff, and that's what i believe they're doing.

[Rinsui]

A side-effect of excessive copy-pasting.
Since you always know in advance what the landscape
around the next corner will look like, you are never surprised.

[Lebannen]

They should add more towns. They don't have to make them as big as the three hubb cities, but they should make them seem more alive with merchants and sub guilds.