I've been meaning to do this since I first watched the Showcase. But hadn't gotten around to.
I am more excited for Island Sanctuary than anything else revealed in Endwalker! I've been asking for content like this for years! And took a very, very long time to get caught up on the Main Scenario, because I was too busy doing things like fishing and farming. Not that meta slang MMO "farming", I mean farming! Going out and spending hours, without a guide, looking for various nodes around Eorzea, feeling a sense of discovery of what items lie in wait.
I spent hundreds of hours doing this, and I love disciples of hand and land! I remember asking for more content like this and wanting it for years. I like growing crops and things like that.
Some of my favourite games of all time are Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, Animal Crossing, and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. I grew up on the original Bokujou Monogatari/"Harvest Moon" on the SNES. And after that, I always wanted more games like it. I was also addicted to Animal Crossing: New Horizons for months after it came out. To the point that I missed out on a lot of Final Fantasy XIV.
I can hardly put into words how excited I am about the opportunity to have more such content! I think MMORPGs need things like this. Content doesn't need to be all about combat, people's lives are more than about fighting! MMORPGs should be about crafting virtual worlds that feel real that people want to come live in.
And being able to raise crops and animals and things like that makes the world more immersive! Sadly, being stuck on an island won't make you feel more integrated into Eorzea proper necessarily. But you can still feel more attached to the world when you've done things like raise crops inside of it.
Since 1.0, we had been teased about, and I had been disappointed that we never got more of such content like Shepard Disciple of Land. Now, we're finally getting some of what I dreamed of.
Honestly, the made the Showcase for me. And means the world to me as an Adventurer.
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I am more excited for Island Sanctuary than anything else revealed in Endwalker! I've been asking for content like this for years! And took a very, very long time to get caught up on the Main Scenario, because I was too busy doing things like fishing and farming. Not that meta slang MMO "farming", I mean farming! Going out and spending hours, without a guide, looking for various nodes around Eorzea, feeling a sense of discovery of what items lie in wait.
I spent hundreds of hours doing this, and I love disciples of hand and land! I remember asking for more content like this and wanting it for years. I like growing crops and things like that.
Some of my favourite games of all time are Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, Animal Crossing, and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. I grew up on the original Bokujou Monogatari/"Harvest Moon" on the SNES. And after that, I always wanted more games like it. I was also addicted to Animal Crossing: New Horizons for months after it came out. To the point that I missed out on a lot of Final Fantasy XIV.
I can hardly put into words how excited I am about the opportunity to have more such content! I think MMORPGs need things like this. Content doesn't need to be all about combat, people's lives are more than about fighting! MMORPGs should be about crafting virtual worlds that feel real that people want to come live in.
And being able to raise crops and animals and things like that makes the world more immersive! Sadly, being stuck on an island won't make you feel more integrated into Eorzea proper necessarily. But you can still feel more attached to the world when you've done things like raise crops inside of it.
Since 1.0, we had been teased about, and I had been disappointed that we never got more of such content like Shepard Disciple of Land. Now, we're finally getting some of what I dreamed of.
Honestly, the made the Showcase for me. And means the world to me as an Adventurer.
Continue reading...