Instant Dungeon

[Jinko]

Looking at it from a casuals point of view (I'm not casual just so you know) I can definately see the appeal of cross server dungeons and I'm sure SE are considering it based on that.

They want to make this game a casual MMO, so adding casual features makes sense.

I think it would be best adding this to the 3rd players poll to see what the majority of people think and not just the "noisy" few who post here.

[Aveline]

Also, while it won't be an easy task, we are also checking into the discussions for a cross-World instant party creation system.

Please, please, please don't do this. While I also can see the perks, the downside is that you will see far less strong communities built on servers. Ask nearly any longtime FFXI fan, or nearly anyone playing FFXIV today, and the biggest reason they will give for sticking it out with a Final Fantasy MMO over anything else is: the community.

FFXIV's community strength is in enough trouble as it is, with people dropping the game to play something else until all of XIV's issues are fixed. Adding a cross-server dungeon feature will only serve to weaken the community even more. I agree with Belial that a much better solution would be cross-world events that allow people from all over Eorzea (on the same server) to participate in events together (ie. get teleported into the instance, then when they're done, are dropped back off wherever they were before joining the instance).

[Skeeter]

I am all for great LFG options but I am highly opposed to cross server dungeons. I have played other MMOs with this feature and it kills server communities. There has already been a lot of discussion on why many people share this opinion I hope it is taken into consideration. Cross server queueing made WoW feel like a shallow lobby game and not a world. Everyone stands in town queueing for PvP or Dungeons. It is one of the biggest reasons I left WoW and I probably won't hang around FF14 if this happens either. I am looking for world + community feel which the genre seems to be losing.

[Verecund]

Cross-realming ultimately will dilute the individual server communities. I'm not opposed to it given the game's current state (and I'm on a "high pop" server), but I think we should wait and see how the PS3 launch and upcoming content implementations pan out before going that route.

[Sephr]

I'm really not a fan of cross-server. Having played WoW prior to the LFG system and now, I can say that whilst the LFG system is fantastic in terms of convenience, it's totally delivered the finishing blow to any community that game once had.

I think alternatives such as maintaining versatility of job roles and ease of class switching (but still being able to work towards the same goal through faction reputation rewards etc as well as pure class xp) can help alleviate the need to gather people from different servers, as job roles are easier to fill. (The smaller party size helps too)

[Burn]

Sounds good to me, they can easily still have open world content while providing instanced content.

[Menchi]

Do -not- want cross-server groups please.

[viion]

STOP RUINING THE GAME!!!!!!!

[Laughlyn]

seems like its impossible to join party unless you have good linkshell.

how about develop team create instant dungeon where other people from different server can join. that way at least we can have decent party and have fun.

Hm, if its something simmilar to WoW's dungeon finder i guess it would be cool,
because one of the major problems for many casual players...
were to find a group / party going for like CoP / RoZ quests / missions.

So ya, id like this possibility.
There were however some problems with it in WoW, people going afk,
wich well could be reported and auto booted if no confirmation was made etc.

But... could be interesting, i hope they gives us a test run of it.
If it's too messed up, remove it & go back to basic.

And before anyone starts flaming me for actually playing WoW...gtfo plz.
Ya i played WoW for 3years, FFXI for 5 years...think that's nuff said.

[UllrHellfire]

Here is a strange and not looked at topic, LS System let's here something for the love of god about that.