Quote Originally Posted by Malmstrom View Post
And yet you also continue to consider the possibility that there are some people that don't need to do the things you are doing. Not want. Need.

Some of us are level capped on everything. That's a giant chunk of open world time that we no longer need to engage in. What are we going to do? Grind FATEs for mats that don't sell or items we already have? And what tomestones? The beast tribe ones? The quests that take a few minutes to complete and then you're done? Or are you referring to maps, where it's jump from one spot to another between zones until you get your instanced treasure vault?

My point is that once you're done, that's it. What's the draw to the open world when you have done everything each zone has to offer? Stand around and take screenshots? Fly around in circles and gather the thing that the bots will tank the price on immediately?

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I'm not sure how else I can emphasize that I wish there was more open world content. Perhaps it's just that my definition of what that would be is different than what everyone else's is.
But that applies to everything in the game (in any game, actually) once you collected everything you wanted from a specific part of it - whats the draw of dungeons once you've got everything on max level and all the drops you wanted? Why keep running raids if you've got all your drops? Why keeping doing Savage if you're BiS with all jobs you care about? Why keep farming a primal once you got all your weapons and the mount? Why continue crafting if you've got everything you wanted there?

This isnt an open world problem, this is a problem that every game has - and that every aspect of this game has. Since this game has so many different content-types, each one only gets small updates, so everyone gets at least something they like with each patch - instead of pumping everything into one type of content.
The latest patch gave use Beast Tribes and some more stuff to buy with gemstones - two things that are a small drive to go into the open world.