Flying, Swimming, Whats next?

The past two expansions we received two fun new modes of travel, well now that we have the earth sky and sea covered do you think they'll try implement something new (god knows what), expand upon each respectively or let that be all in the next expac? If you have any thoughts or ideas share them below, i'd love to hear em!

Sky, Flying. Sea, Swimming. Earth... Digging!

Honestly I doubt more modes will be added, and it's pretty much a good thing now since that time and resources can be focused elsewhere in the next expansion.

we will fly to the moon and have low gravity movement :O

well...
FFXI went sky -> sea -> temporal travel to alternate versions of the zones type of deal
if that means anything

FFXIV seems to be moving towards the garlean war so maybe we will get some sort of like customizable mech to pilot that interacts with zone obstacles

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Originally Posted by Nihility

maybe we will get some sort of like customizable mech to pilot that interacts with zone obstacles

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Digging! :p

Time travel. A portal that allows you to travel back to the 1.0 time period to gather items lost to history that are needed to rescue the future.

Aerial/Aquatic combat, that's what's next.

Outer Space!
Eorzea knows no bounds

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

Digging! :p

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Oh! Would they introduce Chocobo Hot and Cold then?

Honestly I'd just like to see swimming used a bit more.

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Oh! Would they introduce Chocobo Hot and Cold then?

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Please no. That was the worst bit of FFIX.

Snowboarding, of course.

Final Fantasy XIV : Storminecraftward reborn

The moon is pretty logical for Final Fantasy

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Please no. That was the worst bit of FFIX.

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I disagree.

I won't expect anything, except PERHAPS aerial and underwater combat, but I think it'd be pretty cool if climbing/scaling/vaulting over obstacles became a thing... but that's admittedly highly unlikely.

Hopefully they use the time they spend making these traveling systems on fixing glamour and making them fit the race better like in 1.0 and making a real glamour book.

4-Dimensional movement.

Mounted combat.

Or as someone said we time travel, but to 8bit graphics zones!

I really don't want to see time travel occur in FFXIV as FFXI showed how that usually resulted in unimaginative zone design (instead of creating wholly new zones, existing zones are simply redressed and added as 'new zones in the past').

Another issue with time travel was again shown by FFXI's time travel scenario which had the issue of retconning everything in the story that came before it so I would rather not touch that narrative can of worms again (and I say that as a fan of time travel as a sub-genre in science fiction).

Also for those hoping for time travel as an excuse to "travel back to 1.0 zones'", that is an impossibility - 1.0 is gone forever including it's awful zone structure. If a hypothetical time travel scenario was added to FFXIV, it's pretty much guaranteed to just feature existing ARR zones but in the past, not how that zone was originally shown in 1.0 (as 1.0 used a totally different client, engine and sever structure to ARR). So again I'm going to say that 1.0 is gone and is never coming back.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Aerial/Aquatic combat, that's what's next.

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I hope they do it right. Cause underwater combat is a pain in a lot of other games/MMOs. Heck Guild Wars 2 tried to spice it up with underwater weapons but they abandoned all Underwater content as much as possible several patches later.

Probably going to different shards like the world the Warriors of Darkness were from. I'm fully expecting it in a future expansion even if it's not exactly that particular world.

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Originally Posted by SicariusSeven

I hope they do it right. Cause underwater combat is a pain in a lot of other games/MMOs. Heck Guild Wars 2 tried to spice it up with underwater weapons but they abandoned all Underwater content as much as possible several patches later.

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I'm sure we'll get it in baby steps. We'll know it's coming once Blitzball becomes a thing.

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We'll know it's coming once Blitzball becomes a thing.

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Which will hopefully never be a thing

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Which will hopefully never be a thing

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I know, but sadly, it does. Not only has Yoshi been quoted wanting it since ARR, but it would be the laziest easiest means of testing advanced aquatic gameplay for future content that would allow aerial or aquatic combat.

I'm just glad we got swimming.

The world felt so weirdly closed off and boxed in when every body of water had an invisible wall around it.

Anything else, I just hope it's fun and immersive.

I am going to say, Climbing.

It was implemented decently enough in EQ2 like 6 years ago or longer?? God how time flies in mmos....