Petition to keep non-instanced dungeons.

[ThePatriarch]

I guess that's what I'm not understanding. How is that exclusive to non-instance areas?

I get the impression that people want these vast empty space with little nooks and crannies to investigate for the sake of saying you went to see them this one time.

I'm not saying that an MMO shouldn't have an open living world. It definitely should. But at the end of the day it's still a game about strengthening your character and experiencing story.

That's why I'd prefer a smaller open world with more in it and top gear coming from instanced events. That way everything can happen on the player's schedule aside from inconsequential things like random events such as Garlean raids on an Aetheryte camp or a dragon flying by.

Personally, I just don't want to go back to the days of the best gear dropping from open world monsters. There's nothing fun about being up at 3a.m. For then tenth night in a row trying to convincer yourself that "If I stuck it out this long, I may as well wait one more window."

But perhaps that's where some miscommunication is coming in. What do people want in the open world that already isn't there or on the way?

If we're talking about something like having an open stronghold guarding the entrance to a raid, I can totally get behind that. But not an open stronhmghold leading to a claim fest.

I couldn't disagree any harder.

If you make a game purely instanced, there wouldn't be a sense of exploration. Rather than choose where you would like to go, you could just pick what instanced event you would like to do.

Me on the other hand, I like my MMO to have places to go, beautiful sights to see. And whilst exploring I, often, like to see a nice dragon that happens to be up.

Oh you are bored, Maybe you wanna skill up your craft while camping this nm? 3 hours well spent! I miss those days

[Jinko]

Me on the other hand, I like my MMO to have places to go, beautiful sights to see. And whilst exploring I, often, like to see a nice dragon that happens to be up.

None of which we have at the moment, Mor Dhona is about as nice as it gets and that place is pretty barren.

[ThePatriarch]

None of which we have at the moment, Mor Dhona is about as nice as it gets and that place is pretty barren.

This is a good call sir.

I am not saying that we have these zones yet, but I would like to see Open World content around when these areas become more readily available.

Remember taking in Attowha Chasm for the first time, checking out how awesome it looked. Then bam, there is this dragon in front of you. Its those magical moments that instanced raids take away.

[Sephrick]

I couldn't disagree any harder.

If you make a game purely instanced, there wouldn't be a sense of exploration. Rather than choose where you would like to go, you could just pick what instanced event you would like to do.

Me on the other hand, I like my MMO to have places to go, beautiful sights to see. And whilst exploring I, often, like to see a nice dragon that happens to be up.

Oh you are bored, Maybe you wanna skill up your craft while camping this nm? 3 hours well spent! I miss those days

So what you're saying, in short, is that you want HNMs back? No thanks. Spawn camping is boring.

If XIV is going to be successful the key element needs to be accessibility. Open world 24-72 hour NMs just don't provide that. That may have been okay in 2002 but not 2012. And that has nothing to do with a "gimme nao" mentality. I don't expect a gumball to drop every time I press a button, but I do want to press that button on my own schedule.