Speed up island sanctuary?

[RyoXander]

The devs abandoning Island Sanctuary was so lame. It has so much potential to be expanded upon. It would've helped relieve the housing situation if they would've just let you put a house somewhere on your island.

[DiaDeem]

What we were told Island Sanctuary was going to be:


What Island Sanctuary actually is:

[Infindox]

I really hate that they abandoned IS completely because it had so many good things it could have become.

[CCheshire]

The devs abandoning Island Sanctuary was so lame. It has so much potential to be expanded upon. It would've helped relieve the housing situation if they would've just let you put a house somewhere on your island.

SE didn't abandon IS? It's finished content as you get exclusive rewards for it. It would be like saying SE abandoned Bozja or Stb Beast Tribes it's done.

[Shistar]

It was advertised in a way that made it look like Animal Crossing but for FFXIV. Had it been that, it probably would have been a smash hit but instead, we got gathering and spreadsheet simulator which very few wanted.

This is what confuses me to this day, why in the world did we get a cute Excel instead of a micro farming sim?

The devs abandoning Island Sanctuary was so lame. It has so much potential to be expanded upon. It would've helped relieve the housing situation if they would've just let you put a house somewhere on your island.

It's not abandoned. It is simply finished, I'm secretly glad... I'd rather they spend resources making something that doesn't have us roleplaying as gathering bots or staring at a spreadsheet...

[Kandraxx]

Just take it easy, its supposed to be a come daily and get a little something pseudo mobile game. Most people who actually have this at lvl 20 botted the mountain peak, because after like lvl 10 it becomes insufferable to even click the NPC to go there.

[RyoXander]

SE didn't abandon IS? It's finished content as you get exclusive rewards for it. It would be like saying SE abandoned Bozja or Stb Beast Tribes it's done.

I mean you just proved my point. It wasn't supposed to be the typical type of content where you grind for a reward and call it a day. It should've been more like PvP where people who enjoy that niche part of the game can look forward to small but frequent updates and new rewards. They could've even added a similar "battle/season pass" to it just like PvP, gotten creative with the farming and raising animals, a better way to make gil (late enough that it wouldn't likely be abused by RMTs), a house, and even included more layouts and building designs.

This had the option to be so great for people who really enjoy "cozy life sim" games which was obviously their intention, but they fumbled and created the exact opposite, a stressful life sim.

[CCheshire]

I mean you just proved my point. It wasn't supposed to be the typical type of content where you grind for a reward and call it a day. It should've been more like PvP where people who enjoy that niche part of the game can look forward to small but frequent updates and new rewards. They could've even added a similar "battle/season pass" to it just like PvP, gotten creative with the farming and raising animals, a better way to make gil (late enough that it wouldn't likely be abused by RMTs), a house, and even included more layouts and building designs.

This had the option to be so great for people who really enjoy "cozy life sim" games which was obviously their intention, but they fumbled and created the exact opposite, a stressful life sim.

I read that Yoshi-p clearly stated it wasn't going to be instanced housing and that players should have low expectations for IS. I mean you can still make money from selling the materia, mounts, and dyes atm if anyone who still cares enough to visit their islands for cowries. It's very much a experiment for them like old Diadem so it's finished at the end of EW.

The idea that IS would be a "cozy life sim" was never confirmed by SE other than IS would be self-contained and you can get some cool exclusive rewards which you can get at lvl 20 IS. We already have DoL/H jobs for the idea for relaxing activities and housing exists even if most ppl dislike the idea of S plots and apts.

[EchoingPulse]

I only ever completed Island Sanctuary once. I used that sprint + Lock on harvesting mod while watching Netflix, and even then, that nonsense was a chore. The whole market element was quite lovely; I enjoyed it, but I didn't enjoy needing to join a Discord channel to see the best exp gains as much.
Basically, it's more anti-alt stuff. That doesn't really amount to anything once you hit level 20.
Which is a shame.

[MayuAmakura]

Most people botted island because of how boring it is. It's a lot of chore to level up. It's honestly a fail project. Nobody cares about it anymore. I most of the time forget that I even have an island. It could have been something very good but these devs only have one thing in mind when creating new stuff;

- gathering till you die
- please collect 30k useless stuff for achievement

Instead they could have created a nice relaxing thing or housing districts and so on. So far there's no need to visit anyone's island nor even change how it looks. It's just mega yawn boring.