Quote Originally Posted by Elfidan View Post
FFXI did the fate/chest thing in it's wings of the goddess expansion which at times was nice. I think the posters original intent is that there are large detailed zones with voids between sparsely placed monsters lending to a general feel of emptiness. It is less about what is in the chest and more about filling the zones a bit more.
I haven't a clue about FFXI, but I agree with the rest of what you said. There's space for clickable objects and lore tid-bits, monuments (broken or whole) with readable plaques. A random bit of vendor fodder out in the world with a tooltip description that could help enrich the lore of the zone you found it in, or just something silly that makes you smile. I know there are some interesting things scattered about, just nothing you can interact with. So much more could be done with the space.