November? really?

[Hyrist]

Yes, I will admit it does go both ways and it was rather rude to bring up personal life stuff over FFXIV.

To do so in a derogatory fashion, certainly. But I don't think it is wrong to raise the question of a person's individual health when signs are being made that perhaps a healthy life is being traded away for more game time. Concern for someone's health should not be discouraged.

I can't speak as to the context of the conversation in question specifically as I confess I did not read it.

I'm pretty sure it was mentioned a long while back just what sort of things exploratory voyages would go over, such as using your FC ship, entering as a full alliance, it not being instanced, and hunting notorious monsters. Void Ark they'd go over drop rules, party compositions, all of which are givens since it's a Ct-styled content. From my end, it's retelling us what we already know because I already expected these sort of things based on the previous preview they have already given us or stray developer comments in the forums.

Nothing in indications of any of the records state that the zones are not instanced. In fact, IIRC this is last live letter was first mention of any sort of concept that there was other parties sharing the same area with you. And from the indications of such, it sounds like it won't be crowded. Again, this is all speculative. But the details I was referring to was the reward structure of Exploratory Missions, the possiblity of randomized loot that could equate to high-tier 210 gear, where before we had no idea whether or not these drops would even be relative to endgame. That changes things rather dramatically.