[dev] Please make future maps more varried...........................................

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I'm having fun in ffxiv and that is what counts

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If you haven't noticed yet you're in the minority...in fact the people that even come to these forums and remotely care about this game are in the extreme minority. Have fun all you want, the game still stinks.

Running around is okay. But the landscape is boring, and while they made the sidequests a lil more important than XI's they are still pretty unimportant. If people enjoy this they should really stop playing the game for a month of two and play an rpg made 10 years ago so they learn what fun is again. There are fun aspects of this game, but this isn't my first mmo, and I know what I think good is. Good can be repetitive, but the repetitives actions in this game did not have fun in mind for the long term. Its like we weren't meant to be doing the crap were doing now for as long as we have been. In an mmo we shouldn't have to either, there should be some form of content.

Just looking at the screenshots from tera and guild wars gets me depressed because I can't help but compare them to the grassy fields around LL. There is literally NOTHING to see. How is it that nobody on the team said that endless field of grass isn't that compelling terrain to explore? Did all the SE concept artists get fired?

XIV is full of terrain elevations and random objects, but no landmarks for the areas to stand out.

Other games have plains with nothing on them but landmarks that do stand out.

Than again, I don't care to see overdone massive and "epic" scenery with little context to it. It's the times when you make up lore to justify this cool ruin you just made instead of the opposite when things go horribly wrong.

The zones way too homogeneous and pointless for how big they are. Hopefully when they add more content we can see parts of the map being used for other things, but right now there's just vast stretches of areas that offer nothing but more mobs to grind on or to avoid while passing through.

there are many in japan and others countries that believe that the map creation as well other things were sub contracted to china and they half ass it and toke se money which is se fault for being cheap. but please dont hold me to this its just what i have read.

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Originally Posted by Mack

yes, please. I was running around Thanalan and the only point I saw for the maps being so large is so leve camps are far apart...so lame. At least add temples or areas of interest with any significance to them. Even so however, the maps are boring and dull, why do the regions have to be so big? if you guys were going with seamless you should have studied it more before deciding to half way it. Did you guys forget how to make maps? did you forget what FFXI was like? or maybe its because you guys were so out of touch with your fans 'til recently that you had no idea what we actually liked and what we didn't.

Please change the maps that we have now (and more than a few quest hubs too) and/or make future zones smaller and/or more varied in design...as in way more varied, as in different texture altogether. And for the love of god make a transition region between Thanalan and the Shroud, and then burn the shroud to the ground and make it wide open.

It took you guys 3 tries and we don't even know if you're going to get the battle system right still. I don't understand how this is even possible? 3 freakin tries! I know it doesn't look like you're considering changing the maps but please give us more zones and make them useful...these zones suck, there is nothing there, they aren't charming, the music that overlays them sucks. Even FFXII had funner exploration in it, what the hell where you guys thinking?

I'm excited for content as much as the next person and the new battle system but there's a lot more that this game needs. Maps aside too, my NPC linkpearl just glowed, I was asked to go to Ashcrown Consortium (in Gridania) so I did, why??? because they wanted to tell me to go to Mor Dhona...literally, I was sent packing to Gridania for 2 sentences...why couldn't they ask me over the pearl for instance?? oh right, I get it, because you guys think that boring time sinks = good game design and yes I bolded this part because its #@#!in annoying. Fix it please. I suggest you look at things you did right in FFXI and improve on them, because if you have any hope of FFXIV being a success its because of ex-XI players and current XI players who might wanna make the switch.

[SIZE="5"]To the community reps, can you guys please get an answer as to what the devs are planning to do with the maps we currently have, aside from adding quest hubs, if anything?[/SIZE]

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cheer up, whatever else is bothering you might never happen. does this really even matter, its just terrain, which people have majorly overreacted with. yum copy pasta

the copy paste isnt bad, is the lack of anything other than aerythe camps / vortex ....yeah some "hidden" towns here and there (with nothing on them other than 3 lonely npcs)

there arent towers , no mob strongholds ,nothing , the world is empty......

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Originally Posted by Mack

There is no way anyone can enjoy this. Its not even opinion any more, if someone actually says they enjoy the storyline quests (the actual gameplay portion of it, because the storyline itself isn't too bad) then they are just insane.

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Yeah, heaven forbid humans have different preferences for stuff. I dislike Indian food, does that make me insane because someone else may enjoy it?

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Originally Posted by Mack

If you haven't noticed yet you're in the minority...in fact the people that even come to these forums and remotely care about this game are in the extreme minority. Have fun all you want, the game still stinks.

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And that your opinon. I care about ffxiv. But i'd play it regaurdless my only issue is that the community is too quiet. Other then that ffxi is just like every mmo i played. Just need it story progressed imo but ppl cried over minor stuff so story progession took a back seat. :)