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

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What's exactly wrong with open world raid bosses?

If they have sellable drops, they promote RMT. If they have binding drops, they promote claim botting. If their drops aren't any good, open world content people won't count them as open world content.

The only viable solution is basically what Odin and Behemoth already are, fates with drops that are traded for items. But again, FATEs apparently don't count as open world content.

That's the issue, those against everything only think of the negative, or don't even know what changes have been done - For example, someone bring up sky, people who play this game haven't obviously touched FFXI since 2003 and say: "But bot claiming! but NM camping!" when not only do you pop them yourself, but it's pointless to bot claim when regular monsters in the area drops the item to pop said NM.

I played on Bahamut for years after the pop item changes to sky. The bot claimers just started botting the normal mobs instead, and selling any extra drops.

Again, promotes botting/RMT.

FFXIVs RMT population is huge. Basically it's just players being lazy, laziness promotes RMT.

Exactly. That's why you don't make anything sellable BiS. People will just buy gil and buy their BiS instead of working for it themselves.