Island Sanctuary Appreciation Thread

[Alleo]

Mog Garden

The scant details they've given so far sound very much like the features available in XI's personal island sanctuaries.

This does sound interesting even if most seems to be just getting there once a day and collecting stuff. But I really hope that in 2021 SE can do much more than that and that they will do it. If its end up just like it or worse then I wonder where all the time was put in to create this so I give them the benefit of the doubt.

At the end I am at least happy that I finally have a place where some of my minions can roam free.

[TaleraRistain]

Mog Garden

The scant details they've given so far sound very much like the features available in XI's personal island sanctuaries.

"Euthanize your creature and collect rewards from it."

WTF

I hope we don't get that

[Moomba33]

"Euthanize your creature and collect rewards from it."

WTF

I hope we don't get that

To be fair, XI never forces you to use that option. I always opt to send the creature back to wild instead.

I was upset when the tutorial lamb died to introduce that system though.

[Moomba33]

I'm not expecting much more than an updated version of XI's Mog Garden. If it is I'll be pleasantly surprised, and if it's not I won't be broken up about it and just integrate it into the daily routine.

I'm expecting this as well. I expect I'll enjoy it based on the addition of roaming minions if nothing else.

I worry that people expecting instanced housing are getting their hopes up too much....I agree this would be a great way to add it to the game, but to my knowledge SE has said nothing regarding customizable buildings being attached to this content. I learned long ago to never expect more from SE than exactly what they say when I assumed we were getting chocobo training mini games and it turned out those were just cutscenes played when you feed a chocobo at a stable.

[Shibi]

To many years of SE... Best to be prepared for the worst.

We could be surprised, clearly it's something that is wanted, but somehow, I think it will end up being growing food for verminion battles.

[VirusOnline]

I have an appreciation for farm like games, but playing devil's advocate here I can only imagine that this is the team's attempt to make house gardening universally available. Sorta like deep sea fishing feels.
Please look forward to the clicking.

[Penthea]

I'm really looking forward to this, more than anything else that has been announced so far. However I'm concerned that SE will choose to miss a fantastic opportunity to make this feature provide instanced housing. If it does then it's an absolute win for me.

[Liam_Harper]

From experience the devs hate direct copy-pastes of successful content from other games and tend to opt for convoluted niche systems of their own. There's a chance they'll keep it simple and it could be something fun but also a good chance we have another Verminion-type idea on the way.

[Vickii]

I have two thoughts on it.

1) I think a lot of the player base is expecting it to be almost a free instanced housing area and I don’t think it’s that at all.

2) I think the emphasis that you ‘don’t need’ a crafter/gatherer to enjoy it and you can still do some without it, hints that you kinda need a crafter gatherer to get the most of it.

I’m expecting single player ishgard restoration/firmament/doma restoration style gameplay zone personally.

[Jennah]

I'm honestly expecting "Everyone gets a garden patch for free. But it can't be used for crossbreeding seeds. And there won't be any new plants introduced either, so have fun growing flowers that sell for 1/1000th the cost of their seeds on the market board".

With them hyping it up, at least there's a good chance I'll be pleasantly surprised?