We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Alleo]

I didn't always get the complaints about the Ruby Sea sometimes. It's an ocean. Oceans are vast areas with very little life or activity except under the water. It's why there's such a thing as people going stir-crazy when they've been shipwrecked for so long out in the middle of no where.

Now, one thing I will agree with and accept is the gripes that there's also barely anything to do under the water. I think that's the main problem with the Ruby Sea. Not what can't be done above sea level, but what can't be done under the water if they're going to make a water eccentric themed zone.

We should have been able to explore sunken chests, explore underwater ruins, interact and explode marine life that's trying to kill us like sharks, giant squids, eels, etc...and have housing underwater!

If we take real life oceans in this, then we could also argue that it would be fine if they released a whole desert zone without anything in it too. The problem for me was, that the benchmark showed a ruby sea full of life. A kraken breaking free and "chasing" the player with its arms, small crabs around the mining points that look curious. It just felt so alive and beautiful..and then you get into the game, see the shipwrecks, the corals and one (or two) lonely sharks. Sometimes a little swarm of fish but nothing more. I am not saying that they should have added more structure. But it just feels so liveless.