Unpopular opinion on island sanctuarys.

[Jason_Ashford]

Personally I don't really understand it, I was kind of expecting something along the lines of the mog garden in XI, and I guess I kind of got that? I'd wager I'm a fairly casual player mostly interested in the lore anymore, but it just feels like pointless timegated stuff in a place I don't have much attachment to since I can't really make it my own. 6.2 in general has felt very strange to me with the kind of lackluster MSQ and how rushed the ending to endwalker was. It just kind of leaves a weird feeling in my gut.

it's designed to be similar to the hunt achievement mounts in that it is super casual content that you earn over the span of months or years. the ones complaining about it going too slow are the ones who probably grinded to level 8 or higher via gathering nonstop and ignored everything else, not realizing that those other aspects streamline progression and as you unlock higher levelled features, it progressively becomes easier to earn exp and currency. Also, this is not a one and done addition. it has already been made clear that they intend to continue adding more to the island and the features it offers will expand. We might even get actual housing, or at the very least furnishing decoration capabilities down the line.

[NekoMataMata]

IS could be so much better if we could actually customize it. Instead there's a handful of rewards that most players don't seem to care for, but players like myself will likely work up to and then leave.

[Payadopa]

no teleports anywhere on the island.

I dunno why but that legit made me chuckle.

[Aneshda]

My island is bugged, my black chocobo ran away. I can still feed it, pet it, and harvest the resources but I can't bring it back to the other animals, it's stuck between the trees and bushes.

If you have upgradet your fields to rank 3, then you have to pay 2 crownies per seed. Because of the 10 seeds that exist, you can only find 4 seeds, all others cost something. Sad :-(

[Jason_Ashford]

My island is bugged, my black chocobo ran away. I can still feed it, pet it, and harvest the resources but I can't bring it back to the other animals, it's stuck between the trees and bushes.

If you have upgradet your fields to rank 3, then you have to pay 2 crownies per seed. Because of the 10 seeds that exist, you can only find 4 seeds, all others cost something. Sad :-(

that's... a really great deal though. you are exchanging 10 cowries for 25 produce which can be turned into products that generate 100+ cowries easily.

[HollowedDoll]

Yeah, I think once I get the hairstyles, I'm done with this, don't personally get the appeal of "playing" for 20 minutes then waiting hours for something to happen, if I wanted that I'd just boot up Animal Crossing or Idle Heroes or whatever.

At least there is no microtransactions involved with this thing, yet.

PS: Implement sprint toggle like in PVP, literally no reason not to since you can just spam it every 5 sec

[NekoMataMata]

that's... a really great deal though. you are exchanging 10 cowries for 25 produce which can be turned into products that generate 100+ cowries easily.

Yeah, there's a lot of things to complain about but generally how these things work is you invest the cowries into your island to make more cowries later(and to make them faster).

Although with the supply/demand system they have in place it does make it kind of risky.

[Lustre]

The foundation is there but I think it needs a lot added/refined to be more enjoyable. After about 4 or 5 hours you realise how barebones it is. Went and visited FC members islands last night and most of them were the same, at different points of the "linear path". Is it really MY island if everyones island looks the same? It needs way way more customisation options imo. The rare animals arent at all rare, the workshop is pointlessly in-depth for what it is (see excel sheet) and the granary expeditions are glorified retainer ventures who's only value is the rare mats they bring back.

Making blue cowries the primary currency for everything from mammet management, to expansions etc makes it feel as if it was specifically designed to time-gate people. Which isnt an issue when the core gameplay loop is fun, but running around 1 clicking nodes for hours is starting to get a bit tedious. Only just got the first gathering achievement which is 1000 gathers. The OST on the island is really good but jarring how the song ends abruptly and it's followed by silence for multiple minutes before kicking in again. Also orchestration doesn't work properly which is a shame.

It's a good little time-waster, and I appreciate you can queue for things from the island. I am enjoying it more than I thought I would, but there is still an awful lot of room for improvements, and considering how long it took them to put this very simple piece of content out, I'm not buying all of the passive-aggressive defences people are spewing about it. But each to their own!

[Lustre]

Inb4 people reply saying "it's not meant to be rushed" "you dont know how to chill". I'm already playing it like a weekly activity. Gather enough to supply the workshop, feed the animals, set a venture and leave til the next day. I just wish there was more to do on there

[hagare]

good lord the amount of whining i've seen here is just obscene and virtually all of it boils down to "i want content that panders to ME. i don't wanna do any of that other stuff." rinse and repeat.

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