World content

[Alhanelem]

Just ignore that guy, his in-game time is spent stalking botters (or rather a botter for the most part) and seemingly not really playing the game.

They've been moving away from world content for a long time, largely because people fight over it. Despite the people who did enjoy it, by and large no one really likes things like gathering en-mass for a once very 3 days world spawn to watch cheaters win every pull and get all the loot (or win the pull and not get the drop). When you have instanced content, everyone has a chance to get stuff. It's the whole reason modern MMOs don't put nearly as much into the open world as they used to. Plus people hate "real" experiences like walking miles to dungeon entrances to participate in content so they eliminated stuff like that too. It's kind of sad in a way but it's also understandable.

While force pops addressed some of this, aside from putting multiple force pop locations sprinkled around the area, you're more limited in how many people can do the content at a time. Do you really want to wait in an in world physical line to do a popular new NM? Remember when adventuring fellows came out and there was an actual line that formed from the battlefield entrance to the ghelsba outpost zone?

There are so many reasons NOT to do world spawns. And I remind you that while I don't really agree with it, a lot of people blame abyssea (or the era in which it came out) for FFXI's decline.