Something needs to be done about the empty open world

[Barwara]

Farming certain things like fates to get what you need to upgrade your gear gets boring quickly enough. It's necessary because grinding for gear is part of the package, but I wouldn't consider fates and hunts as open-world elements.

To add to a previous statement, a certain population of players like me care about story-telling and lore above all, so it would be nice if there was more story-telling to discover outside the msq. There are side-quests of course, but they demand you fetch or gather something most of the time. And if by chance you do all of the side-quests available in a zone, that's it. You don't have a reason to go back to older zones for story-content.

I'd say older zones can be made relevant again with new, more engaging side-quests, that explore more of the area's lore/history.