Azys Lla, wasted zone

[Natashio]

Azys Lla is like all the other open world zones only has it's usefulness for whatever fleeting needs you want to satisfy. There's really no use for open world the way this game's content is distribute.

[Eul]

Some disappointment is Azys Lla isn't part of Aquapolis map, so there's pretty few people to go there like miner for collectable. It doesn't have ephemeral collectable too.

[Antonio_Xul]

Maybe if SE stops making hubs like Idyllshire and Mor Dhona where all end game collectibles are located, then other areas would be used. Spread out the tomestone trading gear to different locations, scripts or raid gear trading all should be in different locales, so people visit other locations not just park their butts in Idyllshire and shout all day showing off their latest mount or gear while queuing in duty finder. Hubs kill off other maps.

I love how the world looks, but it's so empty. POTD a brought a little bit of life to Quarrymill because people literally have to go there to go in instead of duty finder. Maybe in future instances, it's what they'll need to do to keep maps alive with people. Have players to go to the actual location to go in, not duty finder.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I don't see spreading end game items over multiple locations being a better design than a hub. It just sounds like trying to force a population in multiple zones for the sake of making zones look not dead.

[Enur]

Had hoped for lore on how Allagan society functioned when entering Azys Lla.

Was dissapointed.

[LalafellDown]

I agree, all areas are are wasted space compared to other MMO's. There isn't any purpose to the monsters or fates, the side quest are boring and forgettable, not one NPC is voiced when talking to them. 1.0-3.45, what war is there, I see nothing of any kind of war going on in the open world. It makes me think that its all in the NPC's head. The bad guys all sit around in their cities/base just like players do. Guild Wars Heart of Thorns great example of a war going on, constant battles all around the map with events leading up to a full scale boss fight that is done still to this day. Maps have evidence of a physical war going on with camps being invaded, NPC's dying and people shouting.

In FF14 3.0 where was this war between the dragons? I only saw it between the dragon and me. Everything else looked peaceful, everybody just sat around. There were no invasions, nor camps to protect. It was all in our heads, where are the constant barrage of dragons attacking towns, villages, cities, where the players gathered in that location would have to defend?

This game is suffering and wants it to be put out of its misery, the sub numbers show that its on a decline. The fact that content has to be extended just to keep the game alive, shows that the content made is only good for a few hours of play.

if 3.5 was any good it would last us until 4.0, but they have to cut it in half and release the other half of it later in march to keep people coming back. Everyone knows just like every patch before, 3.5 will get boring in a few hours, but they have your sub money for that month so its good enough for them.

[Powe]

To the guy up above me, I'm pretty sure the game isn't in decline, also they cut 3.5 in half because they did it in 2.5 it's like that and honestly I like that. The game is getting better and better and I for one can't wait to see where it takes us

[Sylvain]

Ok XD I'm not the only one with this feeling then
Hopefully it is something SE can work on for Stormblood.
I don't think every zone must be central and visited every day... but Azys Lla and the Hinterland do in fact serve 0 purpose...

Some disappointment is Azys Lla isn't part of Aquapolis map, so there's pretty few people to go there like miner for collectable. It doesn't have ephemeral collectable too.

Really? what a shame...

Maybe if SE stops making hubs like Idyllshire and Mor Dhona where all end game collectibles are located, then other areas would be used. Spread out the tomestone trading gear to different locations, scripts or raid gear trading all should be in different locales, so people visit other locations not just park their butts in Idyllshire and shout all day showing off their latest mount or gear while queuing in duty finder. Hubs kill off other maps.

I see where you're coming from with this but I would disagree. Having to fly 15min everytime I want to check for an item, like just the price, would annoy me beyond measure. I also have the feeling this wouldn't fix the problem. There's still nothing to do. You go there to get your piece and leave assap. However, I agree there could be unique traders here. But not maingear tombstone though.
As someone else said, you would just force people to go there and there, you don't incite them. Player should feel compelled to go to different zones, not forced.

This game is suffering and wants it to be put out of its misery, the sub numbers show that its on a decline. The fact that content has to be extended just to keep the game alive, shows that the content made is only good for a few hours of play.

if 3.5 was any good it would last us until 4.0, but they have to cut it in half and release the other half of it later in march to keep people coming back. Everyone knows just like every patch before, 3.5 will get boring in a few hours, but they have your sub money for that month so its good enough for them.

Well that's a bit extreme XD
I don't think splitting the content into two part means the game is in decline. It instead seem to be a smart move. The problem with any fresh content not being savage raid is that it will be very quickly completed.This is unavoidable. Even if they were to release 5 new primals and a new raid every patch, it would still be done within a week by the vast majority of players.
Assuming you say the truth about the subscription decline (basically, that you didn't pull that out of your ass), this is the fate of any given game. And it is fine like this. Every single game will stale as you spend hours. It is ok for player to sub an unsub every now and then.
For instance, I moved to Japan in September, being very busy I couldn't play much so I unsubbed until this month. Last year, with the release of another game I realised I had more fun playing this new game than FF14, but after 3 month of playing the new game, I got bored of it and came back to FF.

I am personally very satisfied with the content we get every patch. They don't just add new raid and dungeon every 3month, they also improve many little things overall. If you take a good look, we steadily have gotten new haircut, new fashion stuff, mount, pet, housing (I hate housing but it doesn't change the fact that they still maintain it), even pvp got new stuff every patch even though very little people play it. The ATH update with the 4 ... ATH spec? All these little things they keep improving. I don't believe the game lack content, but of course it mostly depend of how much time you spend in the game and what you qualify as content. If the only thing that matter to you is raiding and everything else bores you. The game will probly lack content then. I agree.
But if this is the case, then after the release of 3.5, once you're done, you should maybe consider unsusbscribing for sometime and move to anothergame, this way FF would feel fresh when you come back.


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If SE were to add something in this zone, what would you like it to be?

As I said, I would have loved a robot beast tribe. I think it would have been very interesting to have an insight at the mechanism of the flying city by helping the robots. They could have also expanded on the various race on the island, explain why they are here, what purposed they served etc etc.

[Yasuhiro]

Hubs kill off other maps.

I agree with that, they may as well have just made a lobby MMO like PSO2 where you go and select what duty you want to do while you mingle in the lobby which is like what Idyllshire, Lower Limsa and Mor Dhona are like.

[MidnightS]

They really should have done more stuff with Tiamat, especially since her brood-brother, Hraesvelgr, is now alone as well.