Quote Originally Posted by indira View Post
too feed the cry babys, and to make you grind gear doing the same crap over and over again, but crafters now make the best gear so its pertty much a waste of time.

SE wants the world to be dead and people sitting in a queue in town.
Like open world content without a group finder is any different? In XI you grind the same content over and over while most of the world is dead because people are sitting in the favored town shouting for groups. And whether or not you get to play is based solely on how many other people are doing what you're trying to do that night.

Want to do Dynamis, too bad all zones but Windurst are occupied. Want to kill Vrtra? To bad he was killed 35 hours ago. You could always farm Diorite in sky with it's awesome 1.5% drop rate. Usually they sane leave that one be.

Yoshida has said there still will be open world content like the strongholds. The instanced content is a blessing because it allows for groups to actually plan and do the content when they intend to instead of standing around hoping they get a chance to play.

XI content ended at getting claim of what you wanted to do, and that was boring. Instanced content allows them to design more unique and challenging experiences.