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

[Mycow8me]

And you still needed to bot to stand a chance at claiming the normal mobs in those areas.

All that did was instead of running a claim bot for 30 mins every 4-6 hours, people needed to run them 24/7 to claim trash mobs.

You're blowing it out of proportion. It was never that bad, don't even try to exasperate it that much. There are numerous zones that spawn the same type of mob to farm. More often than not the players were even nice enough to leave and go to a different zone if there wasn't enough mobs for both groups.

This thread isn't even about sky, I never intended it to be. It was an example that could be used to build off of. So you didn't like the respawn rates, maybe that was a flaw. That's easily adjustable and fixable.

[RoxasXIII]

This is just sad. If you people aren't happy that your fc's can't have fun together because of lack of open world content, then I'm sorry, but you need to find a better fc. I have loads of fun with mine. Also,why are you all threatening to leave this 6 m.o game becaue of lack of content? Give it time. And its not like s.e exactly cares if one person wants to quit. QQ moar, might get more attention.

[Mycow8me]

It wasn't a threat to quit. It's feedback as to why I am, possibly even others in the time to come. I've already done it before. You can't post here unless you're still subscripted, unless they changed that since last time so I went ahead and posted before it happens this time. So you have fun in your FC. All the ones I've been through have had players dropping like flies and even the one I'm in now has a house with a leader that hardly ever logs on and no activity in it even though it started off really well. A lot of FC's are on the fence about recruiting new members too cause of the whole 8 player thing. Managing people within the FC and making sure everyone is happy is hard when your limited to 8 ppl per instance. Everyone's experience is different. Perhaps I could have found a better FC, perhaps I could have put more effort into finding some fun people to hang with, perhaps I just need to find a different game.

[Tiggy]

It wasn't a threat to quit. It's feedback as to why I am, possibly even others in the time to come. I've already done it before. You can't post here unless you're still subscripted, unless they changed that since last time so I went ahead and posted before it happens this time. So you have fun in your FC. All the ones I've been through have had players dropping like flies and even the one I'm in now has a house with a leader that hardly ever logs on and no activity in it even though it started off really well. A lot of FC's are on the fence about recruiting new members too cause of the whole 8 player thing. Managing people within the FC and making sure everyone is happy is hard when your limited to 8 ppl per instance. Everyone's experience is different. Perhaps I could have found a better FC, perhaps I could have put more effort into finding some fun people to hang with, perhaps I just need to find a different game.

I don't understand why you have to manage people so much. Why can't everyone just do what they want to do and everyone else in the guild helps when they can? In our FC our static groups are not the domain of the FC. Sure we pulled our static members from the FC, but those players chose deliberately to do this as a team of 8 and they are now on their own. It isn't our place to tell static leaders how they handle their team, their loot, and their strategies. As it stands the only content with lockouts is the new coil so for most content this isn't even a big deal. All other content we just make a team of 8 on the fly from the people who want to join in to help. We spend time getting people past Titan Ex so they aren't road blocked, we spend time helping others get their relics on their side jobs in the hard modes, and more. Why this belief that 8 man instances are limiting? If you have enough people around you can easily have several teams of 8 running content just because they felt like it. This weekend in our FC is a great example. We had enough people interested in Levi Ex that we had two full groups running and a few other people started a third group and filled it up in the PF. 8 people isn't limiting. It's your leaders and their lack of cultivating a good community that is lacking. 8 man instances is a poor excuse. Game for each other as opposed to for the content and you build stronger communities.

[Arkghyom]

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.

And you call this "open world" content?

[Caselia]

As we kindly wait on the promised wandering Primals for FC's to summon and cause weather changing effects.

[MrEzekial]

I never had the chance to know Sky/sea, but I'd definitively love more open world Content. I have no issue with FATEs, but only them.... it's pretty poor content wise

Sky was a zone populated with RMT and bots. If you were a legit player, you could spend WEEKS trying to get items to spawn bosses. Sea was different, but it was still just zones that were maximum rewards for people who cheated. As of right now FFXIV has no content that makes players feel like they need to cheat to play the game, and I hope they keep it that way.

I think people's nostalgia of the area is clouding what it was actually like.

[Doo]

MMOs are suppose to feel sort of like FF12's open world but now they feel like FF13. FF12 is sort of like what FF11 would be like if it was offline while FFXIV = FF13.

[Jynx]

It's your leaders and their lack of cultivating a good community that is lacking.

Your neglecting the one big issue that 8 man dungeons have for most people.

The lockouts on the top tier content encourage 8 man statics, forcing you to leave other members behind because they can't get a full group, or don't have experienced players to run with.

This isn't my issue with instanced 4-8 man dungeons it's the utter shame that these dungeons are just that, a instanced zone that people blitz through. Amdapoor township looks amazing it's a crime that it wasn't accessable outside of duty finder.

[Felis]

And you call this "open world" content?

It is content in the open-world, isn't it?
Maybe it is bad open world content or boring open world content for you, but it is still open world content.