Future Public Dungeons

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

Sounds like you'd rather be playing XI. Good thing servers are still up and you can instead of complaining about how much worse XIV is.

And if your going to be anti final fantasy aspects like open world you shouldn't be playing any ff game period honestly what made xi overall better is it put final fantasy first then the mmo aspect and I'm will to bet if they upgrade xi's graphics add 2 the races/creation screen and made it go to ps4+ xiv would die in 4 hours

[Vivi_Bushido]

And if your going to be anti final fantasy aspects like open world you shouldn't be playing any ff game period honestly what made xi overall better is it put final fantasy first then the mmo aspect and I'm will to bet if they upgrade xi's graphics add 2 the races/creation screen and made it go to ps4+ xiv would die in 4 hours

What part of FFXIII was open? Just saying.
FFXIV is more like an MMO version of FFXII

The only FF game that really attempted true open world was FFXV and people were meh about how they did it. Sure it had open world dungeons but they were boring. They had very little to nothing inside them. Once you were done there was no reason to go back. XIV actually adds replay value. They just eventually kill off older dungeons so badly you never need to even do them once. Which is something that should be addressed.

For some people the true FF experience would be how XI did it. For others it would be VII, or VIII or VI or I. There are so many FF games now that you can't really say which is the true FF experience. I think for many people, the true FF experience is in the story not the gameplay. The gameplay is very important but look at how many times they have reworked magic and renamed the spells. One moment it's Fire 1, 2, 3. then it's Fire, Fira, Firaga. Now it's back to 1, 2, 3 again. XIV is trying to bring all of the FF games together. Yes it's a fan service game but that's what makes it FFXIV. It's the blast to the past game that attempts to cater everyone. Will it succeed? Most certainly not. You cannot make everyone happy. But it sure as hell tries. And it does a good enough job. People say it's a dying game but we currently have more subscribers than FFXI ever did in it's prime.

[BillyKaplan]

And if your going to be anti final fantasy aspects like open world you shouldn't be playing any ff game period honestly what made xi overall better is it put final fantasy first then the mmo aspect and I'm will to bet if they upgrade xi's graphics add 2 the races/creation screen and made it go to ps4+ xiv would die in 4 hours

I'm not too big an FF player but I did complete VII, IX, and most of VI. I don't know what open world aspect you're talking about. You run around the map, get a random battle, and it was easier to escape random battles there than it is in 14. Real content was in cities and dungeons, all "instances".

xiv would die in 4 hours

And rise out of the ashes like the independent entity it should've been because XI people will have a revived XI to go to?

On topic, echoing the request to have any possible future dungeons not be tied to a long, niche content like Euerka. At the very least, allow for other ways to access it, sort of like how you can get to certain dungeons either from their dedicated quests, or each of the GCs (and then retake that quest per GC as needed...). Because I really want to go in there, but I'm the only person out of my FC who got out of Anemos. Very unlikely they'll invest the time needed to get to Hydatos, and even then we might not all be able to make it inside together. That's... yea.

[Duskane]

if they upgrade xi's graphics add 2 the races/creation screen and made it go to ps4+ xiv would die in 4 hours

i really doubt this since ff11 IMHO is very awkward to play and start its not very stream lined compared to ff14 which is very beginner friendly
so it would just flood the ff11 forums with a lot of complaints about the game itself

and alot of old ff11 players don't really like what ff11 has become in the recent years so i doubt giving ff11 some aesthetic tweaks fix anything nor would it kill ff14.

[Dualgunner]

And if your going to be anti final fantasy aspects like open world you shouldn't be playing any ff game period honestly what made xi overall better is it put final fantasy first then the mmo aspect and I'm will to bet if they upgrade xi's graphics add 2 the races/creation screen and made it go to ps4+ xiv would die in 4 hours

The Final Fantasy brand means nothing to me. I like some of their individual games, including FFXIV, and the spin-off Kingdom Hearts is one of my favorite ARPGs to date. It doesn't matter to me if a Final Fantasy game "isn't a real Final Fantasy" so long as I had fun.

And I have fun with FFXIV. If you don't have fun with FFXIV, you shouldn't play it, brand or no.

But Duskane has a point, I apologize for contributing to the derail.

[Auryan]

Sad thing is ppl aren't realizing xi never was bad with that in fact xiv only has 4 things over xi

1 graphics
2. Gender option for cats,roe
3. Creation
And 4 it can be played on ps4

Literally outside those 4 xiv is alot worse


Even if someone did camp or lock out its not like you have to run in circles for 30mins 2 a hour for a q which is alot better

XI was my first MMO and I love the memories attached to it. However, I still prefer XIV over it, especially as I grow older and can't spend dozens of hours per week on it.

And I second the opinions of the other commenters; XI is still up and running and if you're not enjoying XIV, you every right to play it over XIV.

[Rockette]

I'm not sure about a "public dungeon". I thought Eureka itself was that, to be honest.

But a massive raid of 48 people has clearly been demonstrated to work, even though we've had to rely on Discord for grouping and smash our heads against these stupid portals. If the party finding and instance reserving was properly implemented I think a lot of people would like a little more difficulty than the mindless 24mans. But they need to realize that people are going to want to raid with their friends/team mates.

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

i really doubt this since ff11 IMHO is very awkward to play and start its not very stream lined compared to ff14 which is very beginner friendly
so it would just flood the ff11 forums with a lot of complaints about the game itself

and alot of old ff11 players don't really like what ff11 has become in the recent years so i doubt giving ff11 some aesthetic tweaks fix anything nor would it kill ff14.

Regardless at least xi was a true final fantasy 2 the core not a brainless wow 2.0 with chocobos and moogles that honestly insults many of the core aspects of final fantasy for the sake of ppl who cant think things out or the classic its a mmo excuse

[Gwenorai]

Regardless at least xi was a true final fantasy 2 the core not a brainless wow 2.0 with chocobos and moogles that honestly insults many of the core aspects of final fantasy for the sake of ppl who cant think things out or the classic its a mmo excuse

What does this have to do with public dungeons; it's just a random attack on the game and its players. Nice.

[Duskane]

Regardless at least xi was a true final fantasy 2 the core not a brainless wow 2.0 with chocobos and moogles that honestly insults many of the core aspects of final fantasy for the sake of ppl who cant think things out or the classic its a mmo excuse

pretty subjective stuff there
but i find this game much more faithful to the FF franchise as a whole then games like ff13 and ff15
and has a very good mix of fantasy and sci fi like ff6


personally would like this topic to get back at hand of open dungeons in ff14 then another "i want ff14 to be like ff11 because i hate ff14"