A Patch that brings life back to Open World

[RitsukoSonoda]

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They could make it the glamour end game of sorts. Making more content open world but have the rewards be a token system of sorts specifically for glamour items. This would open another outlet in game for them to introduce more costumes based on characters from previous FF games, possible crossovers maybe costumes from say dragon quest games, secret of mana, chronotrigger, bouncer, etc...

As glamours it wouldn't be subject to the power creep of normal endgame. Just make sure to allow all these things to be storable in the armoire XD.

Also maybe pets and new mounts as well.

[Tracewood]

Maybe FATEs need better rewards. Like a second Wonderous Tails like activity where we complete specific fates and hunt marks towards loot. DoL there's plenty to do, but the timers for nodes can get tiresome.

[TarynH]

I always thought it would be neat if they did something like a small add-on expansion called A Realm Rebuilt. Where we help fix up areas that have been abandoned, or even destroyed by war/calamity. Would be an interesting way to incorporate the over world, and the slight changes to certain areas could be rewarding. Could also utilize DoH/L with it.

[ElHeggunte]

It's just the nature of MMOs and the result of their constant growth. Overall interest in spending time in most zones is always going to be fleeting because players follow the content. No matter what you add to a zone, eventually the majority of your players will exhaust or grow beyond the content's usefulness and they'll move on to the next best thing, which typically means "abandoning" a zone until something worthwhile is added to it again (and then the process repeats itself).

And it doesn't help that whenever SE does try to revitalize interest in older zones or content, you have a vocal part of the playerbase whine all up and down about them reusing "old" content instead of giving us something new and shiny.

I always thought it would be neat if they did something like a small add-on expansion called A Realm Rebuilt. Where we help fix up areas that have been abandoned, or even destroyed by war/calamity. Would be an interesting way to incorporate the over world, and the slight changes to certain areas could be rewarding. Could also utilize DoH/L with it.

It would be interesting, but that doesn't help the OP's complaint. Like with anything else open-world, eventually you "finish" it and the areas involved wind up appearing dead all over again.

[Khel]

Bump fates and sidequests to at least be on par with POTD and I'll level more characters for that alone.

[Lord_Zlatan]

I always liked how in Final Fantasy 15 the garleans would drop in out of nowhere when you were running/driving around. They would get harder the more 'waves' of dropships you cleared. I would like something similar to that.

Also, beatmen raiding the camps/outposts around the world would be fun, and they could even implement a renown system that would entice players to participate.

[Calevr]

I really enjoy moving around in the open world, but as you say, there is not enough going on. I would like to see Battlecraft leves enhanced a bit; like boosting the experience from kills on mobs that spawn? I would also like additional hunting logs for leveling classes. These could be sold as books or pages that have a number of different monsters to hunt that include an experience bonus if completed with specific requirements. Think of it working like this; you have to be a specific class or under a certain level in order to get the bonus? I would also like to see weekend content for the open world that bring a degree of excitement to the community. Powerful fiends that spawn in the night scaring the pants off us?!

[Blackcanary]

Just make old dungeons open world that will solve the problem and add quest into them.

[NovaUltimatum]

I too would love to see more endgame relevant content that uses the open world, but it should be spread out just like treasure maps so the servers don't start kicking people because everyone's gone to one instance (thinking about Ixion Fate)

[Xau]

things they could add to maps, local chocobo races(each map has its own track), fates for gathering and crafter jobs, puzzles what rewards some kind of vanity item/card or other stuff what do not affect battle jobs, more quests what gives you no help to complete(similar as to the the greatest story never told quest), local daily quests what allows you to get dungeon gear by trading tokens(is a pain to farm dungeons when you only want 1 piece of gear), and so on