Thoughts about the LL?

[Exmo]

My thought is that, unless i read things wrong, they're foolishly making another space zone instead of injecting new life into the current one by building on it; creating two post expansion crafting/gathering zones and splintering whatever community is involved in the content.

There's barely any community interaction in CE anyway. "Splintering the community" here just means there's fewer bodies per zone. Once they balance FATES there's basically no importance to that.

[frostmagemari]

There's barely any community interaction in CE anyway. "Splintering the community" here just means there's fewer bodies per zone. Once they balance FATES there's basically no importance to that.

There tends to be a lot of community interaction when people are actually in the same zone, but every new thing requires a new zone and any community that could exist is hobbled at the knees.
XIV has a serious problem abandoning content as soon as the zerg-rush is over. It wouldn't be perfect, but not just abandoning a zone to create another might go a long way for the whole "MMO" aspect of their game.

[Exmo]

There tends to be a lot of community interaction when people are actually in the same zone, but every new thing requires a new zone and any community that could exist is hobbled at the knees.
XIV has a serious problem abandoning content as soon as the zerg-rush is over. It wouldn't be perfect, but not just abandoning a zone to create another might go a long way for the whole "MMO" aspect of their game.

I admit I did not spend a lot of time in CE, but when I was there I saw no community interaction outside of brief shout conversations. The most of *that* I saw was during a progress fate (I forget the correct name for them) where everyone was voicing exasperation over how terrible it was. Gatherers and crafters simply do not interact with one another there outside of being bodies in a FATE.

[CidHeiral]

I admit I did not spend a lot of time in CE, but when I was there I saw no community interaction outside of brief shout conversations. The most of *that* I saw was during a progress fate (I forget the correct name for them) where everyone was voicing exasperation over how terrible it was. Gatherers and crafters simply do not interact with one another there outside of being bodies in a FATE.

It must vary per server then because Hyperion chat was popping off all the time in CE. That's most of why I enjoyed it so much despite not caring much about crafting/gathering.