Dungeons are becoming style over substance.

[Kaurhz]

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Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of this. I just have concerns about practicality. The inevitable result is that people will always go for the most efficient route of completing a dungeon. If people don't need the explore something, then they will rarely bother to do such. I can pretty much use Haukke Manor as a feeble example of this. You had some areas that you didn't need to explore, but exploring them would open up the avenue for some good drops including the Manor Varnish and Fine Wax. When it actually dropped from those dungeons. Yet people would ignore it despite the fact it would only add a minute at most to the dungeon. People will always avoid what they don't need to do. Such things work well on paper, but in execution will go largely ignored by people if they don't need to do it.

Something like this, with heavy interaction potential would be suited to the Gold Saucer to be frank. When you run a dungeon once or twice, it's great. Beyond that it's inconvenient. Outside of this the only way I see it working is if it becomes exclusively premade content strictly for a group of friends. - Incorporating something like this into the duty finder with random folk and something that gets put into the duty roulette will only lead people to moaning (Assuming they would ever make creativity and innovative dungeons the norm). People already cry with something as meek The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, Aurum Vale and Amaurot, let alone where they bother to be creative.

[iheartlove42]

Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of this. I just have concerns about practicality. The inevitable result is that people will always go for the most efficient route of completing a dungeon. If people don't need the explore something, then they will rarely bother to do such. I can pretty much use Haukke Manor as a feeble example of this. You had some areas that you didn't need to explore, but exploring them would open up the avenue for some good drops including the Manor Varnish and Fine Wax. When it actually dropped from those dungeons. Yet people would ignore it despite the fact it would only add a minute at most to the dungeon. People will always avoid what they don't need to do. Such things work well on paper, but in execution will go largely ignored by people if they don't need to do it.

Something like this, with heavy interaction potential would be suited to the Gold Saucer to be frank. When you run a dungeon once or twice, it's great. Beyond that it's inconvenient. Outside of this the only way I see it working is if it becomes exclusively premade content strictly for a group of friends. - Incorporating something like this into the duty finder with random folk and something that gets put into the duty roulette will only lead people to moaning (Assuming they would ever make creativity and innovative dungeons the norm). People already cry with something as meek The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, Aurum Vale and Amaurot, let alone where they bother to be creative.

Yea I completely agree with this. Dungeons with crazy secrets and kooky mechanics can be fun sure, but not when you're doing your Roulette. These things are best relegated to the Gold Saucer where it's a little less serious and I potentially can spend free time there if I choose.

Believe it or not folks, some of the people playing this game have lives outside of it and don't want to have to treat it as a second job. If you're into a video game being a second job you can certainly treat FF14 that way but don't try to make the devs force that on the rest of us. If you absolutely wanna play an MMO that's a second job there's a ton of Korean MMO's out there, and if those are not sadistic enough for your masochist tastes then there's Eve Online: Excel Spreadsheets The Multiplayer Game.