Quote Originally Posted by Murugan View Post
Fixed, because you took what he said out of context as proof of an intent to do away with open world content, this was never said and the fact is we currently have concrete plans to add more open world content (in fact right now there is a hell of a lot more open world stuff being planned than instanced) which is probably why he felt the need to clarify that there would be lots of instanced content in the future:
for people who are afraid the "first party to attack gets claim" system which is identical to how it is now, and how XI does it will mean that all/most/too much (endgame/important) content will be potentially be restricted by competition.

see my quotes i added of his text, he says, that instances will become prevalent to the point that people wont be competing over overworld resources. That is what he says, and why claiming wont be an issue. It is perfectly justified for people to worry that the overworlds value will be diminished because all indications are that it will be, he says it will be. To the point that people wont have much competition for overworld resources.

Also, instances will become more prevalent in future content. The concept of having to claim opponents to prevent being disturbed by other players becomes less and less relevant, so we decided that claiming is unnecessary.


To davorak, thats my major concern, its not about the anyone can help aspect, it just seems that with the reward system going completely to the first person in all respects, it serves no larger purpose other than helping people without being in their party. Like i said, if large scale pve has you fighting for your life and spending your time with any contribution you make to helping others have no value, or in fact negative value, because you could be doing something else, then its a bad system.