Why does the world suck?

[Capita]

No thanks. I was a hardcore FFXI player, and I'm against this. It's not good game design at all to force people to party in order to explore certain areas.

What I do want are explorable dungeons and caverns that are not instanced. I would love to explore a cavern and run across random players also exploring the area without having to party with them, with an HNM-like FATE boss randomly spawning somewhere, who is as difficult as the Behemoth or Odin FATE. Kinda like Garlaige Citadel with Serket.

This game has plenty of zones out in the open, but none that are underground tombs and caves.

[Silverharp]

So you enjoy the fact that you can run through and explore every place in the entire game on a level one character? There is no excitement to explore. Yea the areas look great, but the world sucks overall. Once you get past white knighting SE you will realize this.

I can't believe how many people are against this. The excitement of gathering a group of intrepid adventurers for the purpose of hacking your way into a monster-controlled area that was otherwise inaccessible was AMAZING. It's a shame that the kidz these days just want to spam the auto group-finder for a dungeon that they already know how to beat from watching youtube videos. I guess the good old days aren't coming back. Makes me want to quit MMOs altogether.

It's a long fall down from that High Chocobo you're riding on. Save yourself some time and get off the proper way while you still can. lol

[Zehira]

Maybe it's ok if you let me play with one or two friends and not a whole party. It will give us a good time exploring and fighting.

[Ironhelix]

It's a long fall down from that High Chocobo you're riding on. Save yourself some time and get off the proper way while you still can. lol

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I just want the game to be challenging. There's NOTHING wrong with having areas that require groups to clear. If you don't like that play style, then don't go in there. I HAVE to do the stupid scripted dungeons, there's no way to avoid them and progress the story. What I am proposing is far less restrictive than what is already in the game.

[LunarEmerald]

So you enjoy the fact that you can run through and explore every place in the entire game on a level one character? There is no excitement to explore. Yea the areas look great, but the world sucks overall. Once you get past white knighting SE you will realize this.

Good luck running past level 49 mobs at a low level. Even on a chocobo, you won't be able to most of the time. They inflict heavy and you're screwed. You're not going to get very far in the beastman tribes without a high level 40 character. Enemies are everywhere and many have ranged attacks.