What is the appeal of open world content?

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I feel like you were trying to quote me, but missed :P So to respond, Radiata Stories did have an awesome single player open world, but that's not the same as open world when discussing an MMO. Kind of like a raid in a single player RPG is a whole different concept from a raid in an MMO.

We already have NPCs that do transition between areas from time to time, especially in Limsa Lominsa.