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

[Ikeda]

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?

Porting in and porting out can easily be changed. Doesn't have to be changed for existing areas but they could easily make a new open world area that's "too dangerous" for the npcs to set up a camp and aetheryte there.

As for the others that don't understand what the OP means by open world content for some reason, he's essentially asking for a open world dungeon. An open world area or areas that's filled with monsters you can't just casually walk by without having to worry about being killed with some difficult boss monsters that spawn every now and then that actually drops something useful or desirable.

[Theonekitten]

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I don't think anyone is asking exclusively for open content, but that we would like to see some of that to go along with the instance fest that is currently in place. We just want other options that compliments our game play style. And I agree about the good budgeting. Let's hope the servers are vastly improved soon since they are making so much money. Continuing to have the system lag that we have been seeing for so long is inexcusable and unacceptable. This is not a new issue and one that should have been resolved some time ago.

[FallenHero]

Chalk it up to ps3 limitations, thats why you can barely make it 5 minutes without a loading screen and the zones are so small. What youre looking for is an open world sandbox. Im eagerly awaiting ArcheAge and EQN

[Enkidoh]

It's been said before repeatedly and I'll say it again: there is open-world content - if you're looking for FFXI-style NM hunting that's what FATEs are now. Then there's the treasure-map hunting, the daily beastmen quests, etc etc. And what's stopping you going out and just exploring the world (which I used to do in FFXI)? Oh, but because there's no shinies waiting at the end in this people are not interested and claim the 'no-open-world content card'.

Even ignoring all that and using another 'claim' by detractors of the current system who claim FFXIV is nothing but a 'lobby server' for instanced content, remember how in FFXI most players simply sat around idle in Jeuno or Aht Urhgan Whitegate for hours doing nothing while they waited for a party to form to do something trivial such as an exp party or a story quest? What's the difference to sitting in Revenant's Toll waiting for a Duty Finder party to fill here in ARR? Absolutely nothing.

And before you pass judgement this is actually what the player community wanted - content that was not sole-claimable by one person/party, and dungeons that are instanced and separate from the main game (the old player polls Yoshi-P did not long after he took over as Producer that confirm this are still floating around, I'll try and find them and post them here). If you think that sucks, well, you'll just have to live with it, as that's democracy for you.

[Felis]

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 mean that even in 1.23 there were no open-world content?
behest - teleport in, do it, teleport out
Chocobo caravan - teleport in, do it , teleport out
farming chests in the beastmen strongholds - teleport in, do it, teleport out
Atomos event - teleport in, do it, teleport out (wait 5 minutes until the teleport happen)

Atomos event

[Zumi]

There is a lot of open world content you have to do with the new relic quest. First off you have to do fates for atmas, then for the book part there are several kill various monsters in the open world, doing leve quests, and more fates.

[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.

[elreed]

Where did I say I wanted teleports removed? Never
Please don't tell me I am saying something when nothing in my post dictated that
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 perfect regular open area for me would be like the road between the tiny town in North Shroud with the aetherythe to Hysthmill taking the other road where the knights are, that's a harder trip even for 50's, you can get links on your way and find lots of aggressive mobs, if the areas had that difficulty would feel a lot different, the op didn't say about the teleports but I would love if SE reduced the number of aetherythes, would be enough getting 1 or 2 per general zone (Black shroud, La Noscea, Thanalan) somewhere in the middle so you have to use the maps a bit more, I really like the look of every zone and its a waste not having a good use for those.

A sky area would be awesome, especially if they made it a hard open area, where you need to be careful and preferably with a party, they could add fates there that could have NM's like chimera that could drop some items to pop a big bad ass NM

[Myleus]

I would want to see more than one party hunting in the same area. Fighting for the spot could be a viable choice with a nice mixture between instances and open dungeons where ppl could choose different rooms . Areas where every FC goes to hunt choosing the party setup they want and not be stuck with 4-8 players.

[Ruenis]

People like you who gave SE ideas of ATMA FATES grinding. Stop it or go away.