Please bring back Exploratory Zones in Dawntrail

[Aco505]

In the keynote at the Las Vegas Fan Festival, Yoshi-P announced the different types of battle content coming to the game in the newest expansion, Dawntrail.

However, one type of content that was not mentioned in any shape or form in the slide was Exploratory Zones, the category that Eureka and Bozja belong to.

While they could still announce including it at a later date, its absence in Endwalker makes me worried that it will not return in the next expansion either.

Therefore, I am writing this thread to ask the developers of FFXIV to please include Exploratory Zones in 7.x alongside large-scale raids in the same vein that Bozja did.

This kind of content is engaging, fun and long-lasting. Features such as Lost Actions can bring new ways of playing jobs, which is personally one of the main appeals of it.

If you would like Exploratory Zones to return, please show your support by liking and commenting on this thread: do you want it back and why? What specific things do you think the content does well and which ones could be improved in future iterations?


EDIT: According to Reddit (see here), Exploratory Zones could still be on the table for Dawntrail.

That gives me some hope but we should not stop having our voices heard so that the devs understand loud and clear that this content is good for the game and that there's plenty of players that want it.

So feel free to keep liking and commenting on the thread for visibility!

EDIT 2 (21/10/2023): No mention of the possible inclusion of Exploratory Zones in the London Fan Festival Keynote.

EDIT 3 (07/01/2024): A slide in the JP fan festival keynote showed that Field Operations are coming back for Dawntrail!