No exploratory content

[Shurrikhan]

It's unfortunate to see them seemingly doubling down on Island Sanctuary and Variant Dungeon, which are two rather unsuccessful systems. There aren't any major systems that seem poised to shake the game up in any way.

This is honestly the first time I haven't really felt hyped towards an expansion announcement; At least I finally feel at peace just letting my house get auto-demo'd.

If we could reasonably expect ingenuity among them, I'd have no problem with either seeing further development. I do think Exploratory Missions are fundamentally more efficient, iconic, and MMO-like content models, but hey. /shrug

My issue is that I don't think we can reasonably expect any significant interesting improvements to or ingenuity in those models. Or even in general...

[Koros]

If we could reasonably expect ingenuity among them, I'd have no problem with either seeing further development. I do think Exploratory Missions are fundamentally more efficient, iconic, and MMO-like content models, but hey. /shrug

My issue is that I don't think we can reasonably expect any significant interesting improvements to or ingenuity in those models. Or even in general...

Bozja was fine honestly. It had duels, pretty polished and interesting 48-man content with actual stakes (e.g. threats of wiping), a nice progression system, significantly expanded base gameplay with Lost Actions (including a ridiculously fun permanent-IR Warrior with Lost Blood Rage) that I thought were actually more interesting than Eureka's. I think spawning NMs should be made a thing again though, but in a limited capacity (like only a few NMs to spawn in every zone instead of like 20), and they need to find a way to either get rid of FATEs or make them way more interesting on a gameplay level. It wasn't fun in GW2 (which is why I stopped playing that) and it isn't really fun here either.

[Xeronia]

Welp, so it is Endwalker 2.0 basically then? I am not really sold admittedly. Graphics update is beautiful but not worth it by itself. You know what maybe my house isn't worth it.

[yoshikwalla]

Thank you, I appreciate the compliment.

I'm a lalafell player so I have no high horse to stand on anyway lmao

[Kaurhz]

I will, thank you.

[SomeGuy22]

No exploratory content

[Thurmnmurmn]

He has the right to make any thread he wants, you arent a moderator are you ? If he wants to make 20 threads a day, as long as they are on topic about FFXIV, he can, you can cry about it and call me "cringe", I really dont care, you arent a moderator.

You can go read the forum TOS and you'll see he breaks it often. You're not worth the time to explain further.
I won't cry about it but I'll continue calling you cringe

[AlexiaD]

You can go read the forum TOS and you'll see he breaks it often. You're not worth the time to explain further.
I won't cry about it but I'll continue calling you cringe

Thank you bud, bye bye !

[CStrife912]

They didn't announce exploratory zones in shadowbringers first fanfest either? Its too soon to say but would be a shame if they didn't do it again or at least better incorporate it into variant and deep dungeon at least

[Kaurhz]

They didn't announce exploratory zones in shadowbringers first fanfest either? Its too soon to say but would be a shame if they didn't do it again or at least better incorporate it into variant and deep dungeon at least

I wouldn't expect it, but here's to hoping at least what they have in mind for 7.0 is more substantive than what we got with Island Sanctuary.

IMO, the problem I don't think is that we didn't have exploratory content, it's just that Island Sanctuary wasn't substantive enough to fill that void lost.