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

[Orophin]

Is there ever going to be an update to the equivalent of "sky" from ffxi that released a large open world with bosses, farming, questing, story, and even socializing with your FC. I find farming, large bosses and strategy with an FC just as or even more so rewarding than dungeon and gear grinding.

The only story in Sky was the Zilart story you did once. Otherwise it was just a place to farm for gear, just like this game currently is with raids. The difference being instead of people using bots to claim crap you go into an instanced area and have fights that actually rely on player skill.

[Mycow8me]

The only story in Sky was the Zilart story you did once. Otherwise it was just a place to farm for gear, just like this game currently is with raids. The difference being instead of people using bots to claim crap you go into an instanced area and have fights that actually rely on player skill.

You haven't played sky since its release have you? There is no claiming anymore. They are majorly force spaned from pop items. You cruise the open world, talk to people, meet new people, meet someone you've met before who caught a link and needs help. You make friends and do things with your FC that could be composed of 20+ people all in sky together chatting on the linkshell.

This is what you do currently in this game: Get 8 people, que for dungeon, win or lose, rinse and repeat and usually its with randoms from other servers. There is no chance to make friends or socialize. There's no chance meeting, there's nothing.

I don't really see the "story you only did once" thing you are talking about. You only do story once in all games. To add to that, you could even repeat the story in sky and get a different ring reward.

I didn't start this thread for flaming or arguing. I started this thread to reach out to devs or somebody who could atleast give the people wanting open world content some hope.

[DragonFlyy]

There's no chance meeting, there's nothing.

This is wrong. While it's harder to make friends in random dungeons, most times I ask the group which server they are on and if they are on my server, which is quite often, and then I add as friends after the instance.

[Mycow8me]

This is wrong. While it's harder to make friends in random dungeons, most times I ask the group which server they are on and if they are on my server, which is quite often, and then I add as friends after the instance.

You must be pretty lucky then. Usually when I do an instance everyone's just in a hurry to leave and no one even talks probably cause they are myth grinding.

There may be a slim chance for a meeting and friendship but its not even comparable to open world. You could make a friend by just tossing someone who needed help a cure or raise while enroute to anywhere.

[Tupsi]

The only story in Sky was the Zilart story you did once. Otherwise it was just a place to farm for gear, just like this game currently is with raids. The difference being instead of people using bots to claim crap you go into an instanced area and have fights that actually rely on player skill.

There's way more bot usage in XIV than XI currently, and I don't mean just RMT. The only "problem" was on ground kings between large linkshells which you didn't even have to do, here people use Bots even for FATEs. Also, don't confuse memorizing a pattern for skill if you're comparing both games - XIV takes "skill" in some encounters, but compared to other MMOs out there, XIV is way too scripted. Also "story once"? Yeah, then you have stuff like Divine Might and Apocalypse Nigh.

You haven't played sky since its release have you?

Lots of people haven't touched XI since 2003 it sounds like, since people here state SMN's main issue is they're gimped healers and avatars cost too much when that haven't been a problem since 2004 at the latest.