Field Instances

[Musashidon]

Oh I see, but it's kinda weird to have different channel.

don't worry it's only for a week or two, to keep things from getting to crowded.

[Rufalus]

Sounds like a good temporary solution, but...
■Worlds Currently Using Field Instances
Chocobo / Shinryu / Bahamut / Carbuncle / Balmung / Gilgamesh / Excalibur / Hyperion

The list scared me too. Ragnarok can get swamped with people, I would feel better with instances over here too. I remember the minor patch that added Ixal dailies, so many people went to North Shroud immediately, you couldn't see the landscape through the thick sea of players, and we all got the disconnecting icon, and logging back in for a while was met with an instant DC again.

[Reszo]

Guess Diabolos isnt has populated as I thought

[mbncd]

I'm hoping they aren't using the instance servers to make these instances. The instance servers seem the most unreliable ones we have and they easily become overwhelmed (blocking access to any instanced content, from single player quest fights to full raids and now potentially several whole new regions that thousands of people are going to be in) after major numbered patches, let alone a whole expansion pack... I'm lucky in that Ragnarok isn't on the list (at least not yet) but I wouldn't wish those overloaded instances on anyone...

[Luciano_Bozzelli]

This "feature" was one of the main reasons I left WoW, though they really used it for the opposite means (shared maps with other servers rather than split maps on one server for the most part). Nope nope nope to instanced maps, thank the twelve I'm playing on a lower population server.

I've never played wow, but when I read about the instances I felt like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrtQb24Qxw from 0.00 to 0.13 LOL (imagine low flow as the new zone instances, I mean we have enough instances lol)

I'm glad Diabolos won't have them, I want to see all the people having fun around me!! Not zone with a friend and have to choose the 3rd zone, or she gets in the second and its not full. LOL

[KarstenS]

This 'feature' was annoying in Guild Wars 2 and caused a lot of problems.
I hope it doesn't cause any trouble in FFXIV. I am on one of those servers that will be affected (Balmung).

Yoshida said in the Live Letter, it could still contain some BUGs.

This "feature" was one of the main reasons I left WoW, though they really used it for the opposite means (shared maps with other servers rather than split maps on one server for the most part). Nope nope nope to instanced maps, thank the twelve I'm playing on a lower population server.

Its only a temporary solution at the start of HV and they will monitor the activity to enable/disable this feature.

[Sartori]

GW2 has been doing this for years, its old news....