Quote Originally Posted by Rutelor View Post
Other than free roaming NMs (I don't think they deserve the title of HNMs) there's only two imperfect open-world events besides the monotonously repetitive guildleves: Behest and Caravans.
Just wanted to point out that this is simply not true. We do have four Strongholds full of enemies and coffers, three of which have NMs waiting at the end. Also for the lower in level we have Shposhae, a fully open-world dungeon, and more than a dozen lower level NMs. I'm not saying it's the best things we've ever seen but it IS open-world content.

The devs have stated that there will be more open-world content and it's not like they're re-doing the maps just to look pretty. They'll fill those maps with things to do, instanced or not. However that being said, it does seem like a lot of the content is shifting to instanced despite the loud "discussions" in opposition. The community has spoken at length about this many times and still the devs are doing mostly what they want to and what they feel is right for the game. If instanced content really kills the game for you then perhaps FFXIV is not for you, even in 2.0. I would suggest people take the time to consider how much this all really matters to them and evaluate their choice to keep playing.