[devPLEASE] Dynamic World - If Ever You Do Something - Do This!

[Alhanelem]

GW2 this is not the case, if you dont do the quest, the crops are gone and something will happen such as you cant buy stuff from this person anymore, or the farm dies (REAL ENVIRONMENT CHANGES)

It's still going to come back later. You'd run out of farms to protect, enemies to kill or whatever if these things were permanent. This kind of takes away from the whole "your participation matters" aspect of a 'living, breathing world."

To take it to an extreme, what if some quest says "Defend the bridge!" if you dont do it, the bridge is broken, and you can no longer get across to where it leads, A REAL CHANGE ON THE WORLD.

FFXI did things like this with Besieged, and people didn't like that aspect at worst, or didn't care about it at best. In besieged, if you failed to defend the astral candy, you'd lose out on some benefits, the music in the city would stop, and you'd have to go do a battle to get it back. All this stuff did is make go "god dammit somebody go do that fight so we can teleport again."

The funny part here is the world in FFXIV is about to undergo a radical and permanent change. So I don't see what all the hubbub is about.