Please bring back Exploratory Zones in Dawntrail

[Hazuki87]

In the keynote at the Las Vegas Fan Festival, Yoshi-P announced the different types of battle content coming to the game in the newest expansion, Dawntrail.

However, one type of content that was not mentioned in any shape or form in the slide was Exploratory Zones, the category that Eureka and Bozja belong to.

While they could still announce including it at a later date, its absence in Endwalker makes me worried that it will not return in the next expansion either.

Therefore, I am writing this thread to ask the developers of FFXIV to please include Exploratory Zones in 7.x alongside large-scale raids in the same vein that Bozja did.

This kind of content is engaging, fun and long-lasting. Features such as Lost Actions can bring new ways of playing jobs, which is personally one of the main appeals of it.

If you would like Exploratory Zones to return, please show your support by liking and commenting on this thread: do you want it back and why? What specific things do you think the content does well and which ones could be improved in future iterations?

They already said it coming back, was in the Q/A on Day3

[Xeronia]

They already said it coming back, was in the Q/A on Day3

I thought that wasn't a hard confirmation and a more of a "We are looking into it but no promises."

[ICountFrom0]

I thought that wasn't a hard confirmation and a more of a "We are looking into it but no promises."

More like, "we are working on evolving it into it's next form".
They are also trying to evolve Deep Dungeons as well.

For all we know the two are going to merge somehow.

[Aco505]

More like, "we are working on evolving it into it's next form".
They are also trying to evolve Deep Dungeons as well.

For all we know the two are going to merge somehow.

They're also implementing some kind of combat content "never seen before" but the wording suggests that it's not related, at least directly, to exploratory missions.

Which is why we must keep showing support so that they actually implement a new improved one that also takes the good bits of Eureka and Bozja.

[TaleraRistain]

I thought that wasn't a hard confirmation and a more of a "We are looking into it but no promises."

Yeah they want to continue doing it but they didn't sound like they confirmed anything for 7.0 itself.

https://gamerescape.com/2023/07/29/n...fan-fest-2023/

"In terms of large-scale combat situations like Bozja and Eureka, we still want to do things in that vein as well."