Thoughts on Island Santuary

The introduction looks pretty neat. Looks like a final fantasy 14 version of Animal Crossing to me. Thoughts?

Can build structures and I'm curious as to what you can do to decorate them. Looks like you can earn gear, garden and more. I suspect this is going to be quite a time sink.

Edit: Also wonder how the invite friend feature will work and what they'll be able to do when there.

Locking it to endgame only is weird.

Looks neat so far. From what they've showed it looks like you can't fly around and pick your favorite spot on the island to build tho. Scripted positions.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

Locking it to endgame only is weird.

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I agree. I'm very excited for it, but really not a fan of this decision. There wasn't any reason for them to develop it as endgame content. They've been trying to make the game more beginner-friendly in other areas, yet they develop something like this as current-endgame-only... why?

I felt the same way about the new lore codex being locked to 6.1's MSQ. Both of these are things that newer and slower players would appreciate just as much as anyone else, so I don't really understand the decision.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

Locking it to endgame only is weird.

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Likely to make more people purchase Endwalker and not to waste server space on people who haven't or drop this game part way.

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Originally Posted by Oizen

Likely to make more people purchase Endwalker and not to waste server space on people who haven't or drop this game part way.

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If this was the motivation, they could have made it Endwalker content without making it endgame. Like how you can create Viera and Hrothgar just from owning Shadowbringers.

Locking it to endgame make sense... likewise they should with housing in general, as it updates new requirements to acquire, it makes it much more annoying for branches that want to snatch houses and earn RMT on it as well, also it gives people a reason to level up...

I am super super excited can't wait!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Shibi

Locking it to endgame only is weird.

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If SE's goal with Islands is to give FFXIV players something to do between content drops (and not just attract new players who want to play Animal Crossing with chocobos) it makes perfect sense to lock Islands to endgame.

While I would prefer availability be based on owning Endwalker rather than completing 6.0 (my alt hasn't finished ShB yet), I really like what I've seen of the rest of it and am excited to dig into it on my main.