Thread: ffxiv 1.0 question

Doesn't anyone remember having to search for the Aether Currents in the Heavensward? That required players to explore the the new massive areas on foot, with just a vague comment on direction and distance to guide you. Most people I talked too found it annoying. But is that what you want?

Originally Posted by Black_Rose

it would be nice to have more explorable zones like that back in the game, but as it is the current open world is seen as nothing but a place to either fate, hunt or gather.without open world group parties like you had them in 1.0 and FFXI the reason to create such places is probably just a waste of ressources in terms of development.some of those places were already wasted on 1.0 because most spend their time leve leveling or simply went for favorite exp grounds like raptors or beastmen strongholds to exp at.

In 1.0, I think most of time was spent in Ul'dah trying to find a party via /shouts... It was incredibly difficult to do any exploring do to the level 60 monsters roaming the narrow caverns and passageways that needed to be traversed to reach parts of the map. The only way to avoid detection was to put it in walk mode and walk behind the monster, praying it wouldn't turn and see you. It usually did, and that meant instant death.