Ala Mhigo love please.

[Protantical]

I want people to actually advocate to improve this place. Why does it still look like that?

Why can't this place get some damn love and a much needed makeover for it's capital city? It always, always, always wracks my mind how they dropped an incredibly barebones map down and called it a day. Legit every other city-state is more expansive. Ala Mhigo just gets like five winding roads of absolutely nothing. It does it's themes and culture absolutely no justice.

How can something that's been built-up from ARR all the way to Stormblood just get completely shafted? In both design and just general story. Does that not bother anyone? The area with probably the most grounded and interesting real world-esque issues about resistance, culture, etc., has almost nothing done with it's themes other than incredibly basic surface level takes?

[RegularJoe]

It's not great, and you can clearly tell that the devs favored Othard a lot more. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do at this point. A good number of people have expressed similar grievances. But Mhigo is just not an amigo for the devs.

[Syln]

Choices had to be made, but yes i hope that Ala Mhigo will become a true city at some point.

[LaylaTsarra]

It would be nice but we're moving to a new story, new adventure, I would think there won't be much more put into older regional areas/maps at this point.

[Deveryn]

Not much time has passed and things have only just settled down with the end of the Final Days. When you think about the events of Shadowbringers, remember time barely passed on the Source while you were away. It's hard to really quantify as this universe exists in a bubble of time.

All that being said, the devs probably won't touch that area for a very long time, if ever.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

Not much time has passed and things have only just settled down with the end of the Final Days.

Of course Doma still had more than enough time to remake the entire enclave, among other things.

Anyway, while Ala Mhigo got suckered into Loloritos servitude, at least we can take heart in knowing that Doma has it worse as they got suckered into Rowenas servitude. Words fail to describe how profoundly i pity the poor fools...

[Theodric]

Other MMO's have taken the time to touch up older regions and make them more relevant as the story moved forward. It's...not that difficult a feat to accomplish, especially with the use of phasing.

I don't disagree that Ala Mhigo and certain other regions were done dirty by the split focus of Stormblood and Endwalker.

[znushu]

Many places in FFXIV need to be improved including Ul'dah.
So if they started to improve old regions then they would need to improve them all eventually. It would be nice but I fear that SE doesn't want to put that much effort into rebuilding old zones since they seem more focused on building newer ones instead. it's a shame though because you can still rebuild Limsa Lominsa into the ferry hub it was always destined to be which would make ferry travel easier and would give players a reason to max out their standing with the grand companies if they were given perks like more ferry ports in the hub city too. it's ultimately up to Yoshida and the team and not us though but I hope they'll start improving the foundations more rather than just adding more blocks to the top of the wavering structure.

[Bukachu]

I'd much rather forget I even had to see that place or ever visited it tbh.

[magitekLuna]

I want people to actually advocate to improve this place. Why does it still look like that?

Why can't this place get some damn love and a much needed makeover for it's capital city? It always, always, always wracks my mind how they dropped an incredibly barebones map down and called it a day. Legit every other city-state is more expansive. Ala Mhigo just gets like five winding roads of absolutely nothing. It does it's themes and culture absolutely no justice.

How can something that's been built-up from ARR all the way to Stormblood just get completely shafted? In both design and just general story. Does that not bother anyone? The area with probably the most grounded and interesting real world-esque issues about resistance, culture, etc., has almost nothing done with it's themes other than incredibly basic surface level takes?

Same way all the plot from art to ew was shafted mid EW msq.