The World: so Big so Beautiful... But yet so empty

[enthauptet]

Why do people think this is the only way to do open world zones? Surely you've played MMOs other than FFXIV 1.0.

It was that way in the past in one game out of thousands, it has to be the only solution!

But with that being said, a bit problem is a large portion of the maps are not traversed during story quests or just for one or two where we go and forget about it. One that comes to my mind is the right hand side and bottom portion of the fringes map. There are just a few quests all in the same area from the same quest giver for these areas so there is no reason to go around them and you don't see people wondering around either because of it. The lochs is a really extreme example though. It's a neat looking area with some cool spots but the lack of quests, things to do and 20 second looping music makes people not want to be there.

[Ultimatecalibur]

But with that being said, a bit problem is a large portion of the maps are not traversed during story quests or just for one or two where we go and forget about it. One that comes to my mind is the right hand side and bottom portion of the fringes map. There are just a few quests all in the same area from the same quest giver for these areas so there is no reason to go around them and you don't see people wondering around either because of it.

The SE portion of the Fringes is fairly bare right now due to it being the Deltascape entrance and the future base for the Anata Beast tribe quests.

The lochs is a really extreme example though. It's a neat looking area with some cool spots but the lack of quests, things to do and 20 second looping music makes people not want to be there.

The Lochs come off as if they designed it to have room for endgame content.

SB seems to suffer a lot from the "blaze through to 70" mentality.