Open world content...

[DarthTaru]

What's the point of redesigning all of the zones if everything is going to be instanced? Now we have one giant, uninteresting world, and the fact that it's so uninteresting doesn't even matter because the only places on it that are relevant are the 15x15 area in front of Aurum Vale entrance, the 15x15 area in front of Cutter's, the Hamlet gather point, the entrance to Garuda, the entrance to Ifrit and Ifrit Extreme, and the relic faction leve areas.

So here we have one massive world and the only parts of it of any relevance can basically be fit inside a market ward.
That's what instanced content gets you.

Without open world HNMs, a fix to the claim system, etc, I'll feel betrayed even more than I did at launch because at least during launch I didn't suffer through this for two years for nothing in anticipation of it.

Don't understand why we can't have everything....

Despite the OP's wall of text, he nailed it from top to bottom.

[Felis]

What's the point of redesigning all of the zones if everything is going to be instanced? Now we have one giant, uninteresting world, and the fact that it's so uninteresting doesn't even matter because the only places on it that are relevant are the 15x15 area in front of Aurum Vale entrance, the 15x15 area in front of Cutter's, the Hamlet gather point, the entrance to Garuda, the entrance to Ifrit and Ifrit Extreme, and the relic faction leve areas.

So here we have one massive world and the only parts of it of any relevance can basically be fit inside a market ward.
That's what instanced content gets you.

Without open world HNMs, a fix to the claim system, etc, I'll feel betrayed even more than I did at launch because at least during launch I didn't suffer through this for two years for nothing in anticipation of it.

Don't understand why we can't have everything....

Despite the OP's wall of text, he nailed it from top to bottom.

• You need to travel to the instanced entrance once first (before you can use the content finder for this)
• Gatherer content would be 95% open world (5% instanced during hamlet)
• Primal is 67% open world (only the fight is instanced. You need to find and claim it first)
• Quests would be open world
• Leveling would be open world
• Chocobo caravan, Behest, Leves are open world
• Achievements would be mostly open world
• Farming is open world
• More things we know nothing about would be open world

[DarthTaru]

• You need to travel to the instanced entrance once first (before you can use the content finder for this)
• Gatherer content would be 95% open world (5% instanced during hamlet)
• Primal is 67% open world (only the fight is instanced. You need to find and claim it first)
• Quests would be open world
• Leveling would be open world
• Chocobo caravan, Behest, Leves are open world
• Achievements would be mostly open world
• Farming is open world
• More thinks we know nothing about would be open world

Oooh, open world quests! How exciting. Who needs an epic open world battle with Odin when we can run to a cave and click a NPC with an exclamation point over his head. That's where the real action is.

[Felis]

Oooh, open world quests! How exciting. Who needs an epic open world battle with Odin when we can run to a cave and click a NPC with an exclamation point over his head. That's where the real action is.

How you ignore the last point ^^

[Limonconcon]

• You need to travel to the instanced entrance once first (before you can use the content finder for this)
• Gatherer content would be 95% open world (5% instanced during hamlet)
• Primal is 67% open world (only the fight is instanced. You need to find and claim it first)
• Quests would be open world
• Leveling would be open world
• Chocobo caravan, Behest, Leves are open world
• Achievements would be mostly open world
• Farming is open world
• More things we know nothing about would be open world

Lest go point by point....

- That means that they will design a whole world just to see it once... I will like the instance finder but to be required to actually go walk into the instance everytime...

- Is it even possible to instance gather content....

- Primals are 90% instanced... They will be a roaming NPC that you have to find, click (small CS that probably ask you and requires an 8 ppl party and may be ask you the difficulty lvl to...lol "hi, im ifrit do you want me to go easy, hard or extreme on you?) and then kill, been an instance fight it means that it will not aggro, so you will be able to poke and lol at it.... When they first announce them been roaming monster I was thinking of something bigger where the weather changes on the zone of the fight and ppl actually gather to see the fight and hope that you dont make it for them to claim it...

- Quest would be open world and also instance... like always...

- We really don't know what leveling will be on... based on the last interview, Im all full of questions... He responded something that big in the most simplest way... leaving us all wondering...

- Are they staying in the game?

- If the game is surrounded by instances then the achievements will too, with gathering, exploring and crafting exceptions...

- If the game is surrounded by instances then the farming will be mainly done in the instances... with some exceptions of course... But if they have the main mobs in instances then they will drop the main farming resources...

- Hopefully they are hidding the open world from us, Im basing my self on what they have say and everything indicates that the game is heading into the direction that most of us don't want... I wish I could read jap to see what the community is saying...