Why is the Post-MSQ Content so Passive in Endwalker?

[Sjol]

Be the change you want to see in the world and just do some random fates while progressing the patch msq. Like, I am broadly with you in the sense that I think if you just burn MSQ, the game's pacing flies out the window and it sucks. But much to my chagrin, the majority of players treat this game like a visual novel and want to engage with the systems to the absolute minimum they possibly can.

I think other games handle this by having more reasons to be our and about without telling you exactly where stuff is. Gathering can happen while in a combat job, Rare monsters, chests, events can happen. There are more hiding places for things. Mob density is higher allowing you to fight a bunch of stuff at once.

FFXIV areas are also very open with few large structures for you to explore. Where are the caves? The insides of caves and pyramids? Large buildings and structures? Dense canopies where you can't see the sky?

I think the large areas with low density of creatures and structures makes the world feel less interesting. Between that and nothing to surprise why go to the over world?

[Ancalagon_Blacktalon]

FFXIV areas are also very open with few large structures for you to explore. Where are the caves? The insides of caves and pyramids? Large buildings and structures? Dense canopies where you can't see the sky?

hah I have an idea as to why this isn't here. I've been in the Outer La Noscea mines a lot as of late and the camera in those tunnels is absolute agony......buuuut the caves in The Tempest are manageable so they did seem to learn something. That said, yeah, areas with a density similar to say the hub areas in detail (think of how detailed and vertical the Crystarium is) would be pretty great. It does seem that the more interesting locales are saved for dungeons.