What happened to the FFXIV Open world?

[Nobuyuki_Sanada]

With the amount of time and resources that goes into making the new zones its sad and a waste that most of it is flyover content after a month. If they don't plan on changing anything, then I'd be happy with the zones being half or even a quarter of the size and give me more content somewhere else.

[Miguel85NYC]

People love to complain when the game gets a bit challenging... I miss the good old days where if you was bad at something, you would practice to get better at it

[Miguel85NYC]

100% agree, Zones dont need to be massive to be good

[Ardeth]

It's always been bad, but I can't think of an mmo that does a really good open world that isn't hurry up to the rare spawn. Maybe steal Wow's world quest system, but even then, mmo worlds always feel flat. I'm not defending 14. I think our open world is awful, but I don't think off the top of my head I can say this game is better. Even games like GW2 have a good ideas and then ruin it by making it a chase the rare spawn mini game.

[ReynTime]

The field areas in XIV haven't been scary and dangerous since A Realm Reborn.

And even back in the 1.X days, it was only select areas guarded by monsters above the player character cap that gave that sense of danger.

[Luluna]

It used to be dangerous and more akin to FFXI. Going to Mhor Dhona was something else on foot and trying to camp Dodore. It was amazing more alive and something I still to this day hate how they changed it.

I do not mind flying or mounts but even now I still have a tendency to run everywhere because when I started that is how the game played. It has changed so much and now no danger anywhere which I do dislike.

[Jeeqbit]

I will say that Heavensward mobs and FATEs are still the most dangerous I've experienced and even now the FATEs are still among the toughest. Not because they have lots of mechanics or anything, they just hit hard and take forever to die.

[Miguel85NYC]

It used to be dangerous and more akin to FFXI. Going to Mhor Dhona was something else on foot and trying to camp Dodore. It was amazing more alive and something I still to this day hate how they changed it.

I do not mind flying or mounts but even now I still have a tendency to run everywhere because when I started that is how the game played. It has changed so much and now no danger anywhere which I do dislike.

I wish we could tell Yoshy-P how we feel about the zones so he can make them better

[Hanayumi]

Kinda wished they'd update/upgrade the challenge log, like an open world version of WT, fates, biss fates, hunts, gather/crafts and with decent rewards, think it woud certainly help move folks around the world.

[Rekh]

They already know; Bozja critical events system.