Is there going to be open world content ever? Have I missed news or anything related?

[Tupsi]

The reason XIV airship rides are CS is because the WoW generation won't tolerate standing around on an airship deck watching the scenery. Sane reason the game is littered with teleports. When you mention Sky keep in mind that was an expansion zone. Everything else was just wide open spaces with trash mobs and annoying lottery NMs worse than FATEs.

While true, it technically was also "base game" as the storyline lead up to it - So it wasn't just an expansion zone, it was eventually a story arc area, you know, like most FF games. The only zones that come close to that here are the coil zones and that's only because it's ironically continuing the story of FFXIV 1.0 - 1.23c.

The funny thing is, 'lottery nms worse than fates' is the only thing that gives XIV's world a reason, FATEs. Otherwise you could make a bunch of cities and connect them via teleport and you're missing nothing.

[Gerolan]

guess you don't watch the live letters yoshi p has been saying he is adding more and more open world content as we go.

already have dailies, treasure hunts, and now the zodiac weapon quest.

and we will get more as it goes.

Guess you don't know what open world content is then
Dailies, teleport there, kill X, teleport out
Treasure hunts, teleport there, dig, kill, teleport out
Zodiac quest teleport there, join X fate , hope for the 1/10000 chance of atma, teleport out
What the poster was talking about were things that made Xi great, being able to just port there and port back out 10mins later doesn't cut it

[Starlord]

pvp warfronts don't count as open world content because a majority don't play FF games for pvp
Not seen any signs at all of open world content coming, kinda proved that with making relic upgrade and endless list of fates
I loved sky loved sea but hated abyssea in XI, and none of the great things in Xi show any sort of sign of moving to here sadly

Open world content is open world, regardless if people play it or not.

[Musashidon]

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doesn't cut it for you.

open world content is content that is uninstanced and in the actual overworld of the game.

you can say you don't like it that is fair but to say it isn't open world content is a lie.

[Tupsi]

Open world content is open world, regardless if people play it or not.

But it's content relevant to only a handful of people. People want more options for content - His point was it's a PvP zone, which isn't content because being forced into PvP isn't something a lot of people want or they'd be all over the CURRENT PvP and we can obviously see that's not the case.

Open world content = a path for progression. FATEs are open world, quests that have you kill 5 marmots is open world content, leves are open world content, we know people aren't talking about that though, SE/YoshiP wouldn't have acknowledged it if that's what people were talking about.

[Meshico]

But it's content relevant to only a handful of people. People want more options for content - His point was it's a PvP zone, which isn't content because being forced into PvP isn't something a lot of people want or they'd be all over the CURRENT PvP and we can obviously see that's not the case.

Open world content = a path for progression. FATEs are open world, quests that have you kill 5 marmots is open world content, leves are open world content, we know people aren't talking about that though, SE/YoshiP wouldn't have acknowledged it if that's what people were talking about.

And Yoshida, and Team, are trying to deliver that. Little by little. And they sometimes cannot acknowledge certain things because they may already be in the works. ( i know wishful thinking)

I do agree with OP more and more Open World content would be nice to have, I guess I'm just being a little more casual about it than most. Because i'm happy with it

[Pooky]

Guess you don't know what open world content is then
Dailies, teleport there, kill X, teleport out
Treasure hunts, teleport there, dig, kill, teleport out
Zodiac quest teleport there, join X fate , hope for the 1/10000 chance of atma, teleport out
What the poster was talking about were things that made Xi great, being able to just port there and port back out 10mins later doesn't cut it

So you want the game to be fundamentally changed? That's just not going to happen. Porting in and porting out isn't going to go away and if you are sitting there expecting it to, then what exactly are you doing?

There's already stuff like Behemoth/Odin, treasure hunts, FATEs(ugh) etc in the open world. Your issue is people port in and port out to and from them? It would enhance the experience if everyone was forced to run there?

[Clavaat]

As I say in every one of these threads:

As the servers become more powerful, the open world content can increase. Currently, there is a balance between being able to deliver open-world content and keeping stable servers. They are offering bits of this kind of content already and I imagine it will continue to grow as they gain revenue.

Server-side processing is expensive, but client-friendly. It's one of the reasons the system req's are lower.

[Kirosuu]

so instead give better argument you decide to win by tell them whiteknight?worse human ever

[Musashidon]

funny thing is once this thread gets deleted we will get blamed for saying there is already open world content in game and that we will get more as time goes.

because they can't grasp when they call out devs make demands and say things like the game has to have this to be good or survive that's the reason why they are locked and deleted.