Can we get an idea on what to expect from the open world in version 2? (A bit long)

[Eclipse]

Why I want to see open world content and what drew me to FFXI and kept me there until 2009.

1. Competition:
- The thrill of the hunt and capture. From NM's to coffers to farming and mining it was all fun.

2. Reward
- Watching other shells take down or being watched take down an HNM.

3. The Unknown
- Never knowing what you were going to experience outside of an instance. May run into an angry antlion or attacked by an angry tonberry.

4. Beauty
- You could go from zone to zone and within that zone into another zone and it flowed, the world was designed so that the world would flow. You put anything into an instance and you don't necessarily have to make anything flow, just add a crystal or portal into some random cave and poof, your all set.

5. Discovery
- Ability to go through large maps and learn ways to move through the map, the safe spots, the drop downs the pit falls the enemy locations.

6. More practice.
- Sometimes instances are only opened by someone who has ability to access the quest. In the open world you can always experience the content with or without someone needing access.

7. Fear
- The fear of getting lost, the fear of death... I don't fear anything, I have no anxiety about dying, about getting lost.

Open world content allows for a different dynamic, a different feel for the game. If people don't like it they do not have to engage in it, if people don't like instances they don't have to engage in it.

If your a hard core gamer and you need access to either to meet your goals then you will access it and compete with it.

If we have instances we should have more outdoor content as I like to call it. What I mean is there is more than one type of gaming dynamic, so why not include both to encourage a wider variety of gamers to play? Wouldn't that allow for a larger player base with a wider variety of content?

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I miss my adrenaline getting pumped up when we were camping Nidhogg or Fafy or chasing down Ixion... I miss that. The only time that happens now is when I am farming Karakul Fleece and someone starts to farm against me. Haha I think my adrenaline would be better placed on an NM.