Highly Notorious Monsters

[Taika]

Cichy, I see you feel really strongly about this. However, in your post you don't even bother to explain why and how you feel the HNMs ruined FFXI.

You claim it was a system that "drove thousands of people away", and I'm really surprised to hear that, since I've never heard anyone quitting (or deciding not to even try) XI for the HNM system. On the contrary, for many players it seemed to be a system which kept them playing for years and years, and which they chose to use most of their playtime doing.

There were many downsides to the way HNMs were implemented in XI, and all of them have been brought up and discussed in this thread. I don't think anyone wants to bring the system to XIV exactly the way it was in XI, and people are willing to discuss the different possibilities for its implementation in XIV.

The point I'm trying to make here is that it's not really constructive to simply say "NO!" to a complex system which can be implemented in at least hundreds of different ways. Please try to explain what kind of things make open world HNMs undesirable, and maybe even think of ways to avoid those issues.