Feedback on FATEs

[KitiaraIornsight]

Taking away flying is an absolute no for the majority of players. Sorry. I like my flying and I actually hate that we can’t obtain flying in certain wide instanced zones

[Mcg55ss]

and how many of those "a lot of people" are actually people and not bots?

you literally could ask the same about people on the forums. How many people replying are actually people and not bots?

[Burmecia]

Fun for you. So go to those places. What you find fun is not necessarily the same as what other people find fun.

Well, yeaaah... Everyone I know would rather set themselves on fire than bother with Eureka ever again, after they've finished the relics they wanted + gotten ozma if they so desired.
I knew in 10 minutes Eureka wasn't for me back in the Stormblood. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Garnix]

Don't get me wrong. I am all in favor of improving them combat wise and making them closer to what Bozja did. I am also in favor of open world duels like in Bozja. But making travelling to them a worse chore than it is now isn't good IMO.

[koko-on-da-forumz]

Well, yeaaah... Everyone I know would rather set themselves on fire than bother with Eureka ever again

So again, this is in response to the FATE system. People already feel this way about FATEs as well. Are you saying you plan to run non-boss FATEs most days for the next three years?

Fun for you. So go to those places. What you find fun is not necessarily the same as what other people find fun. You have places to do what you enjoy - leave other places for those who enjoy different things.

No one does FATEs. Appealing to someone would surely be better than appealing to no one, no?

[NekoNova]

No one does FATEs. Appealing to someone would surely be better than appealing to no one, no?

.....I'm doing FATEs...

[koko-on-da-forumz]

.....I'm doing FATEs...

Today, during the launch window.

In six months? A year? Three years?

It's the open world, it needs to last until 8.0. There's no new updates to the system until then.

[TDawnstar]

I do! Griffon is fun given how the world is built, Skyscale was a mistake and should not have been added. In both cases, they're extremely limited compared to what we get away with in FFXIV's flight. I didn't think that this forum in particular was the best place for this feedback, but there you go.

As they say, once the how has been milked, you can't squirt the cream back in the udder. Removing flight would be one of the worst decision at this point: just look at the catastrophe when flight wasn't available at max level back in Warlords of Draenor.

Plus, the comparison with GW2 is not entirely honest because of how many waypoints GW2 has in each zone. While in FF, we already didn't get a 3rd waypoint in Garlemald, leading to all the "Farlemald" memes in hunt trains.

And last, FFXIV deliberately went the way of a fast and cheap travel, hence an array of aetherytes to which you can teleport from everywhere instead of making you wait for 5 min for the next airship from, say, Ul'dah to Limsa.

It's wild to me that people are so aggressively against this point.

People want to play the game, not spend time traveling and fending off random world mobs. It gets dull and unfun after the first 5 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for revamping the FATEs and the open world, but not at the cost of removing flight.

[Yeems]

Eureka is fine for what it is.
The open world should NOT be that. Removing flying must be the worst suggestion I've read on the forums so far.

[koko-on-da-forumz]

Plus, the comparison with GW2 is not entirely honest because of how many waypoints GW2 has in each zone. While in FF, we already didn't get a 3rd waypoint in Garlemald, leading to all the "Farlemald" memes in hunt trains.

After reading the comments in this thread, I'm imagining the absolute firestorm that would rain down if an FFXIV player had to navigate TD.

It would be very, very funny.

People want to play the game, not spend time traveling and fending off random world mobs. It gets dull and unfun after the first 5 minutes.

Eureka is still popular and it's been like seven years. I don't think they will ever get rid of flight, people seem really attached to not playing the game, but it would be good for it.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for revamping the FATEs and the open world, but not at the cost of removing flight.

Then stop driving the conversation towards a change that will never happen anyway, and onto the main, principal points of the post!