Thread: Why 2.0 maps will be instantly opened now?

Well by now we know SE's idea of exploration is to kill dinos for 90 minutes.
Unlocking a map the normal way would be too exciting for us to handle.

Also its not like you can actually find interesting things there.

Originally Posted by king_rufus

@ TheUltimateSeph

Get a grip. This isn't "disgusting". This isn't going to set some garbage precedent for insane laziness like you're overly reactive posts suggests. Exploring maps was tedious, especially since they were rarely very interesting. They are still going to be worth looking around for questing and gathering purposes. This is a minor change meant to help get people to the content that's actually interesting and worth doing.

You are right. I'm so sorry. I really meant to say OMG this change is so amazing SE!!! Thank you so much for removing the horrible burden of mapping this games areas myself!!! You are truly overflowing with wisdom and care for your players, so much so that I can feel it dripping out of every orifice! Please continue to remove boring exploration elements from the game and make it more linear and awesome like FFXIII! I love you SE!!!

Honestly, I think they're just starting to do things to streamline the MSQ with an eye toward the 4.0 expansion. *shrugs*

I think some people are really overreacting to what is ultimately a very small change.

Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Honestly, I think they're just starting to do things to streamline the MSQ with an eye toward the 4.0 expansion. *shrugs*

I think some people are really overreacting to what is ultimately a very small change.

It's not really a small change, though. At least not when it's combined with the way in which Diadem was introduced. The game needs more exploration, not less. As much as I loathe to compare the game to other MMO's GW2, Wildstar and WoW all have neat things hidden throughout every zone including environmental hazards, rare enemies, treasure chests and special achievements. I would very much like to see FFXIV take a leaf out of that particular book because whilst many of the zones are very impressive visually once the quests located there have been completed they feel very empty.

Exploration is one of the few Joys. Oh well scrap it took someone more 5han 10 seconds to figure out.

STREAMLIIIIIINE.

I can understand the dungeons since it's so easy to miss those nooks and crannies in some dungeons like Sastasha, but was it really needed for the 2.0 open world zones?

It's so easy to map them as is and it added to the wonder and amazement of being a low-level adventurer discovering things

Originally Posted by myahele

I can understand the dungeons since it's so easy to miss those nooks and crannies in some dungeons like Sastasha, but was it really needed for the 2.0 open world zones?

It's so easy to map them as is and it added to the wonder and amazement of being a low-level adventurer discovering things

I can understand doing this for dungeons especially since I can count on one hand how many times I've encountered people who were willing to explore Sastasha (normal) in its entirety.

As to the other ARR zones, I'm kinda "meh" about it. It doesn't affect me because I already have the areas fully explored.