DEV attention: We request some change to open world!

[Enkidoh]

The old NM/HNM system that several people keep clamoring for is the poster child of not allowing everyone to do something and having players left out. Because that's what they really want, to be able to have exclusive shinies that others can't have. That's the real reason why they don't like that all the best gear comes from dungeons, because with the current system they can't lock out other players from getting the same gear that they have.

Having NMs using a pop system (similar to TH) or a quest system (leves) allows players to form groups and choose to tackle this content when they feel like it.

The camping/claiming system has players stuck in a zone waiting for an NM to pop with the chance of losing claim and having wasted their time.

I hate to say it, but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I'd also like to add that a lot of these calls for so-called 'open world content' are actually not - people just want NMs which drop powerful/expensive gear that can be sold for an overinflated price on the Market Board.

Case in point - a lot of these threads use FFXI as an example, saying having tons of open-world NMs to hunt 'gave variety', when actually it didn't. Most NMs in FFXI were usually ignored by most players for this reason, players usually instead only overcamped a few particular ones they knew dropped decent gear (*cough cough* Valkurm Emperor, Mee Deggi the Punisher, Roc, Lord of Onzzozo etc), with the vast majority completely ignored simply because their items were just not considered decent enough to care - how many people used to camp Bigmouth Billy for instance? (at least until SE made him drop items related to Synergy that is). Virtually none.

Considering the economy is in meltdown at the moment due to players not spending money to instead save for their FC housing, even if gear dropping NMs were in the game, the gear would not sell for chicken feed and the same players would be endlessly whining why SE can't fix the economy. And then you have the RMT/botting problem which is a whole other barrel of moogles...