Is there going to be open world content ever? Have I missed news or anything related?

[Djeserit]

Bahamut must have been one of the pithole servers then lol - Never seen anyone bot claim normal mobs and I did sky for quite awhile while cycling in Einherjar and Sea. XIV has an incredibly large RMT scene, larger than XI ever had actually, XI's RMT problem lasted only two years before SE stomped them out to the point you'd only really get "BRO!" tells, but in ARR you can see them (and regular players) botting everything from mobs, gathering nodes to FATEs and GC provisioning turn ins. It doesn't promote Botting/RMT more than ARR does now.

Yes, Bahamut was one of the oldest and most populous servers, so it had bigger problems than most of the others.

Yes, XIV has more botters and gil sellers than XI does. Why? Because it has a (much) larger playerbase, and because there's no big ticket sellables. They have to bot millions of cheap items to be able to make money.

The RMT will do what they do, and there will always be people who partake in their services. Making BiS items drop in open world and sellable (either by Markets or inviting to party for drop) just gives them a 2nd avenue with which to solicit your custom.*

In XI:
- RMT sells gil.
- RMT run monopoly on open world BiS gear claiming.
Ergo: If you want BiS, you either buy it from them directly with gil you earned yourself (Giving them more to sell) OR you buy gil from them to buy it (Giving them IRL money).

Currently, in XIV:
- RMT Bots stuff, sells gil.
- RMT can't monopolize endgame BiS, because it is instanced and you can just go do it yourself whenever you want.


Look, I'm all for open world content, but you cannot put BiS gear on open world NMs without giving RMT more opportunity to run a monopoly.


Now, if you want to suggest something like daily quests which give you tokens to trade for open world NM pop items, or FATE drop tokens to trade for pop items, then sure, that's fine. But if you put the pop items as random drops on normal mobs that have a limited spawn location, you are asking for people to bot claims.






* Anecdote: This worked on me. I couldn't afford the 2.5m pricetag on Sniper's Rings. The NM that dropped the item needed to make them was camped by RMT, and the prices were so high because they held the monopoly. Gil was cheap, I bought enough for 2. Vowed to never do it again, but more often than not, it becomes a habitual thing for people who do it once.