Open world changes?

[Roda]

This would make it viable for botters and for people to farm mob packs that people need for quests.

This really isn't a good argument since bots have no trouble going into instances and farming them endlessly and teleporting from MSQ to MSQ. Like, I'm not a fan of grinding mobs for no narrative purpose (aka, not farming for drops, an achievement, or for a quest, all are types of naratives), but you might as well remove the whole game if "bots can do it" is a reason to not do something. :T

[Jeeqbit]

This really isn't a good argument since bots have no trouble going into instances and farming them endlessly

Yes but this doesn't disrupt other players because it's in an instance.

[Roda]

Yes but this doesn't disrupt other players because it's in an instance.

I guess you don't remember when the bots literally took up every single instance of Wanderer's Palace? Where if you queued for it, it would get stuck on "reserving instance" so no one could complete the unlock quest.
XIV needs better game moderation and cheat protection. Game design doesn't really factor in to the mess we've got now.

[kaynide]

I guess you don't remember when the bots literally took up every single instance of Wanderer's Palace? Where if you queued for it, it would get stuck on "reserving instance" so no one could complete the unlock quest.
XIV needs better game moderation and cheat protection. Game design doesn't really factor in to the mess we've got now.

And to be fair, this problem hasn’t happened since, so... problem fixed?