Open up the world, please! Part I

[IveraIvalice]

I really like the idea of FFXIV being open world. If they did this and it wasn't part of an expansion and it didn't affect the required specs, would you prefer it?

I'm open to either way I actually have no preference, I just greatly prefer an interesting less repeated looking map so as long as they keep the maps looking unique as much as possible then I do like a more open world seamless transition.

It was the same for me with 1.0, I played from early beta until dalamud fell and I really liked the game even when a lot of people left. The open world dungeons were definitely something I remembered well along with notorious monsters that would drop a rare piece of gear most times. Early on there were a lot of technical issues and there wasn't a lot to do but I still liked it a lot and as the updates started rolling out and a lot of good systems came out I could see how much better the game was getting.

I liked seeing how they really listened to the players feedback when remaking the game. Specifically the few polls that they had that showed everyone's interest in the overall design direction. i think it was mostly through that poll that everyone decided they wanted smaller interesting areas because the current areas were too big and empty. Overall I like the direction they went with 2.0 but if they did go a bit in the other direction to make open world more seamless and have open world dungeons and bring back things like that (I forgot what it was called when camps would get attacked randomly) then that would be cool too.

Basically if they keep areas just as unique then I'm all for a more open world but if the areas take a step back to make it possible then I'd rather them be left as is