"Future content will be heavily instanced" ...not sure i like it...

[Lyndis]

With a seamless world like FFXIV: We NEED open world content.

People complain about the blandness of the areas. What happens when you add a truely NOTORIOUS monster to it. One that people know and have heard of, because it's incredibly powerful and rare. Give us a place like King Behemoth's dominion where new people hear the name and venture there with rumors of a giant beast. Give us a place like Ulegerand range where I climb a tough mountain to find a massive dragon that takes up my entire screen when I get close enough to see it.

It's true that most of FFXI's stuff was instanced too, so I'm not that worried. But it was the LEGENDS the stalked the open world that were truly amazing. Make the world I can explore interesting.

[Sephr]

Considering we have such vast open areas, it would be great to see things like giant adamantoise roaming etc. Would certainly make the world feel alive, though they'd have to be pretty damn tough to kill.

[Zanfire]

With a seamless world like FFXIV: We NEED open world content.

People complain about the blandness of the areas. What happens when you add a truely NOTORIOUS monster to it. One that people know and have heard of, because it's incredibly powerful and rare. Give us a place like King Behemoth's dominion where new people hear the name and venture there with rumors of a giant beast. Give us a place like Ulegerand range where I climb a tough mountain to find a massive dragon that takes up my entire screen when I get close enough to see it.

It's true that most of FFXI's stuff was instanced too, so I'm not that worried. But it was the LEGENDS the stalked the open world that were truly amazing. Make the world I can explore interesting.

i really did love how FFXI set up some of their HNMs. They would put it in odd places or in spots you had to actually venture out to get to, through areas with tough monsters. Going through the back end of crawlers nest to see Simmurg or getting past the weight gates with undead all around to get to Roc. People would test their luck and dodging agro skills just to go see some of these monsters and it was a really neat thing.

[Reinheart]

With a seamless world (wut? lol j/k) like FFXIV: We NEED open world content.

People complain about the blandness of the areas. What happens when you add a truely NOTORIOUS monster to it. One that people know and have heard of, because it's incredibly powerful and rare. Give us a place like King Behemoth's dominion where new people hear the name and venture there with rumors of a giant beast. Give us a place like Ulegerand range where I climb a tough mountain to find a massive dragon that takes up my entire screen when I get close enough to see it.

It's true that most of FFXI's stuff was instanced too, so I'm not that worried. But it was the LEGENDS the stalked the open world that were truly amazing. Make the world I can explore interesting.

If they adding HNM's hope they do it FF13 style open field mobs... I loved the graphics, hated the overall system but the FF13's open field map with the humongous monsters roaming around the world... that was truly amazing. HNM's needs to be that big LOL