Planning to convert all dungeons into instanced raids.

[Djeserit]

That means places like Cassiopeia Hollow and Tam-tara Deepcroft, the saving graces of this games lack of exploration, will now be Party restricted and time limited.

Except, you know, they'll be completely rebuilding the world at the same time as this happens.... so... exploration will be revived from that as well.

And your worries of it taking a long time to find people to do said instances are unfounded too, as they are implementing a cross-server dungeon finder and a more robust search mechanism.

[Kiote]

Except, you know, they'll be completely rebuilding the world at the same time as this happens.... so... exploration will be revived from that as well.

And your worries of it taking a long time to find people to do said instances are unfounded too, as they are implementing a cross-server dungeon finder and a more robust search mechanism.

Having a world with no open dungeons pretty much destroys any sense of exploration. Yes you can wander around the world, but that is not the same as dungeon crawling. The "Rebuilding the world" you refer to is about what you see while you are traveling, not where you spend time wading through danger searching for new and exciting treasures. If you don't have to get off your Chocobo it's not really the same thing.

As far as there "robust search mechanism" I assume your talking about there "cross-world" event finder which is going to be pairing you up with a bunch of people you will not be able to play with outside of these instances. How are we supposed to build a community on mechanics designed to find single serving experiences?

We need places in this game where you can meet people in the field that you can continue to play with in the future. We need both Instances and Open world Dungeons.