How come we can't play with friends?

[ErBear]

But standing around with very slow animations and a big boss that moves like a slug is? ok then

Yes if it's a challange or you have a risk of dieing. Doesn't matter how slow the animations are. How is it fun having the EXACT same fights every week?

[Mogi]

No. Content that can be controlled by players is bad design. Yes, bots ruin it for other people who are also doing that, but not being able to do content because the mob is being monopolized by a group is super lame. FATEs allow other people who bought the game to be able to enjoy open-world content.

That's also why 99% of the game is instanced. There's no reason for a small handful of people to be able to be the only ones enjoying content in the year 2014. That design philosophy is so archaic.

+1 this i hate when there's a world boss and a ppl will camp it or as some games have pvp and ppl will camp it and kill you if you try to kill it :P

[Tridus1x]

You can do fates. Open world things are in the game, you just choose to ignore it.

The less 1.0 we have the better.

[KiriA500]

Yes if it's a challange or you have a risk of dieing. Doesn't matter how slow the animations are. How is it fun having the EXACT same fights every week?

How is it fun having the EXACT same fights for years, Mr. FFXI?

[KupoNuts]

SE, I want big maps so I can explore them all!

You and me both, sister.

[Faedden]

The label fate just seems to make people blind to that I guess?
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No the label fate means it will never drop anything worth while, it will never be hard or even remotely challenging, and it'll just be a zerg fest of people. To me fates are just normal mobs with a special icon next to it.

[Zarzak]

How is it fun having the EXACT same fights for years, Mr. FFXI?

Uhh... These things... We call them expansions. They add more content.

[Mogi]

Id understand ppl complaining if this game was out for a year or 2 and this was all we had but we all no there will be more to come so give it time or maybe take a rest if your that sick of things but i see threads like this everyday i miss 1.0 or the games too small i'm sure SE can hear you all clear

[ErBear]

+1 this i hate when there's a world boss and a ppl will camp it or as some games have pvp and ppl will camp it and kill you if you try to kill it :P

MMOS are not for you go play vindictus lol sorry but there you will have NO open world.

[ninesunz]

I love camping NMs and KSing and having to PvP others at the same time
I don't like fates I don't do them
If you don't like open world NMs with KSing and PvP don't do them? But why should they not exist at all in the game?