Will we ever see group content that isn't a dungeon on rails?

[DukeBurden]

Let's see what 3.1 brings us.

LOL! Is this a joke? You KNOW what 3.1 is gonna bring. 3 new dungeons, 1 new Ex Primal and since this is an odd number patch, a completely facerollable, sleepwalk 24man raid. This game has seen the same formula of content release since 2.1 and I don't see it changing at all.

[Shurrikhan]

TLD;DR, Devs can make better dungeons, but players dont want them. They want short, sharp highly rewarding runs they can blast through.

Just clearly not all the players.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Directionally challenged players had a very "fun" time finding their way to where they needed to be and I know one elderly Guild Leader I had could never find his way around.

This reminds me of the developer commentary for Half Life 2: Episode 2 where they told the story of a play tester literally going in circles for 30 minutes inside a cave. Valve decided to make areas more linear because of it and both Left 4 Dead games are all about running down a linear path every time.

[Hundred]

How about a dungeon builded up as a maze. With secret chambers and moving stairs.

Unless its randomly generated the moment the path is found out everyone will be expected to follow that path or que bm.

[Altijacek]

I craft and gather with a partner, a million times easier and more fun and pleasant and calm. Not having group content isn't excuse to not group up and do content.

[Fated]

Everytime I see one of these topics, I'm reminded of what people wanted out of the original FFXIV and what they were given.

[Colt47]

Everytime I see one of these topics, I'm reminded of what people wanted out of the original FFXIV and what they were given.

Like how every time I read your quote on the bottom of your post I come to the realization we need to take what is officially stated with a bit of skepticism?

[Khalithar]

I highly doubt we'll see any sort of unstructured instanced content, it doesn't really seem a part of their design philosophy. The closest I could think to one in FF was back in FFXI, there was a dungeon called the Sacrarium that you had to navigate and every in game day the walls would shift, forcing you to change the route you took each time, fortunately you only ever needed to go through there once.

[Alipoprocks]

OP, that's what the game was like in 1.23 and until ARR.

[Dotsusama]

What you want exists in several single-player games, and you say you want this now until you get caught in Duty Finder with a player who absolutely does not want to go the route you want to go in and then you have to wait 5 minutes to be able to vote them out.