Open world content...

[Limonconcon]

Felis, you're wasting your breath. The people who scream"this is becoming a lobby based game!" aren't wanting rational discourse. They're a bunch of Chicken Littles who hear the word "instanced" and suddenly the entire game magically transforms into solely that format. You can throw out all facts and logical arguments, but they will either latch on to the one minor statement and snark on it to seem less important, or begin lists of maybe's that aren't backed up by evidence, all to validate their notion that an acorn is indeed the sky.

There s nothing that has genuinely been presented to us which indicates that 2.0 will become a lobby, or anything close to it. Let Chicken Little and Friends flail. Eventually, they'll either exhaust themselves out and realize they were overreacting, or just leave and plague some other community with their histrionics.

Base upon the already given description of the game... we are assuming that a lot of the game's content will be put on instances, but the once that look like WOW instances and not LIMBUS kind of instances... While Im not against having a lot of instances in the game which it will mean more content and stuff to do... I do want to see and give my small opinion which it may be heard of an open world with content in it... It may be announce on the near future, but I haven't heard it and it's driving me nuts...

For those who dnt know what limbus was... It was an instance with the purpose of collecting , materials for AF+1 gear, once the instance was defeatead with the different objectives a chip was rewarded, after collecting all chips you had access to one of the 2 main bosses Omega and Ultima... dropping the nashira and homam sets... Also beastmen coins where drop all along the instance which they were currency to purchase diffente items... one of the most important and common items was the loquacious earring for mages. :-( so much nice memories....
Who doesnt remember the lines after the instance to receive the coins
The instance was only accesible once every 3 days.
One character was able to get in the ins

[Maxthunder]

I myself want more open world content and a game that isnt on baby mode. Currently this game is easy mode and it seems as though Yoshi will make it baby mode come 2.0. I find quest leveling and story level just plain boring. I myself want to be able to grind where, when and how I WANT.

I also look at the other players around me and I understand that not everyone has time to do everything, but to make this game even easier isnt the answer. This is a sad day if and when SE re-releases FFXIV with nothing but instances and quest leveling. I will say it and some may not like it but open world content needs to be like it was in FFXI. FFXI has a huge world with a lot of stuff to do. In FFXIV yes we have open world but nothing of great importance. If SE takes this game to just quests and story based leveling there will be a great number of players who will leave and never return.

The issue at hand is SE and the DEV's can not seem to strike a balance between hardcore, mid players and casuals, and look at what we have know and look at what the interviews that have been done. FFXIV is way off base as long as they continue at thier current rate. SE and the DEV's need to strike a balance for all the player base, from hardcore to casuals etc. In the end there is a great possiblity that FFXIV 2.0 will fail if they can not strike a balance between hardcore mid players and casuals.

[Ruisu]

The real question, IMO, is what are the Japanese players asking for? Because if the answer to that question is open world, I'm willing to bet we're going to eventually be getting open world. While SE will no doubt take everyone's money and cater to multiple audiences, they're a Japanese company. If the Japanese don't want a WoW clone, and want endgame content in the form of open world five headed Tiamat's that drop epic speedy shoes, similar to XI, that's probably what we're going to get. A lot of NA's are obviously too squeamish and fragile for open world HNMs, but are the Japanese?

Maybe Reinheart can weigh in on what he sees in this regard coming from the Japanese community.

Maybe all this instanced talk is just the hook for western audiences going into 2.0 and the open world content will be coming shortly after.

You should try looking at the map redesigns again. It clearly shows that they're planning open world HNMs. Ooooor you can just whine about this not being 100% open world. Which most of these forums seem to be good at doing.

[Rokien]

You should try looking at the map redesigns again. It clearly shows that they're planning open world HNMs. Ooooor you can just whine about this not being 100% open world. Which most of these forums seem to be good at doing.

hnms, yoshi has never said anything about hnms stop pulling things out your butt.

[Starlord]

hnms, yoshi has never said anything about hnms stop pulling things out your butt.

I wonder where he gets it from..... ^

[Rutelor]

Ow, my eyes.

I don't think we know enough about 2.0 to pass judgement either way at this point.

However, Raldo, preemptive criticism might alert the developers about the feelings and wants of the community before it is too late. Even if it turns out that we're jumping the gun without reason.

BTW, good to see you here! ^^

R

[Ruisu]

hnms, yoshi has never said anything about hnms stop pulling things out your butt.

It's time to stop posting, Rokein.

[LittleBraver]

Felis, you're wasting your breath. The people who scream"this is becoming a lobby based game!" aren't wanting rational discourse. They're a bunch of Chicken Littles who hear the word "instanced" and suddenly the entire game magically transforms into solely that format. You can throw out all facts and logical arguments, but they will either latch on to the one minor statement and snark on it to seem less important, or begin lists of maybe's that aren't backed up by evidence, all to validate their notion that an acorn is indeed the sky.

There s nothing that has genuinely been presented to us which indicates that 2.0 will become a lobby, or anything close to it. Let Chicken Little and Friends flail. Eventually, they'll either exhaust themselves out and realize they were overreacting, or just leave and plague some other community with their histrionics.

My goodness! There are still rational, sane people on the forums. Good post.

[Zyph]

fun

[Rokien]

It's time to stop posting, Rokein.

Funny thing is I don't see an H in front of that n

no duh there is going to be nms. Ooo look at me kill an nm over and over again every 5 minutes, so much funn