All open dungeons being converted into instances?

[Issac]

Question to the Devs,

Is it true that ALL dungeons will be converted into instanced raids? All of them?
As in, no open dungeons at all? No competitive gameplay, at all? No random spelunking solo to open coffers, at all?

Before I piss and moan, I just want a confirmation that this is planned. I'm loving everything from the plans going forward (Except maybe "jobs" being progressed through quests and not EXP) but this one particular thing leaves a foul taste in my mouth.

Is it true?


Edit;

Q: All of the dungeons will become instanced, but does this mean all public dungeons disappear?
A: For the ones that require a certain amount of people, I think it would be better to be closed off, so please assume that this means they will basically disappear. However, there will still be beastman strongholds in the open fields.

And from our tusty Reinheart,

F: will there be no more public dungeons in the future?
Y: you can say everything will be gone but like public field there will be those that will still exist but it’s easier to design where only few members can go in, so we’re looking to go that direction.

This confuses me a bit. But if I'm reading right, open dungeons will no longer exist in 2.0?
Or they will be rare?

[Bayohne]

This would be a great question for the sticky thread we set up to collect questions!

[Issac]

This would be a great question for the sticky thread we set up to collect questions!

Thanks Bayohne. Don't know how I missed that. ~_~

A mod can close this thread if needed, thanks!

[quantumsaint]

Scumbag community rep:

Sees question but doesn't answer it.

I'm too lazy to shop, and I'm totally kidding.

[AdvancedWind]

Just don't forget to set up your twitter account before posting there!

[miqokini]

I'm gonna have to agree that was a pretty lame dev response. Even if OP didn't post in the right area, you would think the dev could have added a simple yes or no in his/her comment.

I'm interested to see whether this gets any response at all if posted in the correct area.

I also agree that instancing every single dungeon is totally lame.

[Irondude]

he's just trying to redirect questions about the recent announcement into one forum so that the dev team can analyze it quicker. Bayohne is like the best rep in the English forums (sorry monkeys). He didn't deserve to be called a scumbag.

[quantumsaint]

I'm sorry, I made a memetic joke that was over your head.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-steve

[Bayohne]

No worries, I got the meme reference; no offense taken. As for a response, I don't have a response for you since I'm not on the dev. team! What I can do is assist you all in finding the correct places to ask your questions to make sure they're collected properly. Sorry, if I don't have an answer to every topic at hand, gang.

I also didn't foresee this turning into any kind of issue, so maybe I should've just kept my big Morbol-sized gaping maw shut!