Quote Originally Posted by AmpelioB View Post
Gathering? Maps? Hunts?
Pretty much that, yes.

Honestly now that they've concluded the first big arc of XIV's life (unless you want to count 1.0), I'm hoping they do a lot more with open world stuff. As fun as instanced content is, I'd really like to see some more compelling content. It seems like a bit of a waste, putting all of these hours into art assets that - unless you do x y z activities - a lot of players won't ever see again outside of a hub city unless they just feel like it.

Not asking for a sudden turn from themepark into sandbox (although...) because that's just not what FFXIV is about, but as gorgeous as the overworld is in XIV, it's just weird that it doesn't get used more. They do so much work and then...