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

[Mycow8me]

Not sure how you see it as vague. Sky from ffxi was pretty self explanatory. I'm not saying they need to something exactly like it obviously. They clearly can learn from its flaws and things that worked well. Anyone who played ffxi can tell you that sky was what made the game when it first came out. It was the expansion that brought it to America. In terms of release content. What we have now would have been the JP ffxi equivalent before sky. They have an expansion in the works apparently, the question though is whether or not its open world or just more dutyfinder stuff. I don't see a future in which I'm still playing this game if its just more dutyfinder stuff as the game progresses cause I just don't meet people and FC's don't work with the way the game is currently set up unless you are able to manage segregation and grouping within the FC.

This is why I'm more or less asking for devs or people who have information if any that there may be openworld in the works. Apparently there was a live letter that mentioned it so there is some hope. I wasn't aware of this. That's what I was asking for, hence the thread title.

[Calyanare]

I don't see a future in which I'm still playing this game if its just more dutyfinder stuff as the game progresses cause I just don't meet people

This sounds like a personal problem to me. I didn't play FFXI in the Sky era, but I did play other Asian MMOs with open world dungeons, and what I remember about it is:

1. shouting in town for ages (anywhere from 30mins to 5 hours, depending) just to find a party, then possibly waiting longer to fill the party if the right classes weren't shouting in town
2. fighting with other parties for spawns/camps
3. having herds of mobs trained on you and your whole party wiped (both intentionally and unintentionally), and nobody in the area would stop what they were doing to raise you, so your whole party had to revive in town and start over
4. hardly any talking, apart from discussion of what area to go to and what drops people are looking for, with only fairly rare exceptions
5. one person needs to leave? group disbands, the other players all resume shouting in town (facepalm).

And honestly I've had no trouble meeting people in this game. I've met some great people in guildhests and dungeons, even in Party Finder and standing around at various aetherytes. You're just not trying.

I would just like the OP have a zone that didn't have safe havens every few meters, and that you had an entire area to farm, explore that wasn't connected to a fate

The beast tribe areas would like a word with you.