Quote Originally Posted by Arcell View Post
Exactly. They're going to add more open-world content in 2.0 but it's more fun for Rokien to just ignore all the facts and rally on about all the instances being the devil and ruining everything the game has to offer. Does anyone seriously think the game is going to go 100% instanced or open world? There has been absolutely no indication of this happening, quite the opposite actually.

There has been quite a few additions to both open-world AND instanced since Yoshida took over.

Instanced:

Dungeons
Primals

Open-world:

Roughly 20 low-level NMs
3 (soon to be 4) end-game Strongholds which are also tied to the Primal battle rewards.
Shposhae (an open-world dungeon)
One-time 7th Umbral Era Events (Garlean Invasion/Lambs of Dalamud)
Quests

So honestly, the game is leaning toward having a mix of both. Anyone who doesn't realize this is delusional or ignoring the facts.
all the strong holds are the same, all those nms are not even nms, all dungeons going to be instaced, content finder, hamlet, heck they are going to try and make part of the open world instanced with CF.

lets not forget questchaining