How Big Is The Game World?

Relative to let's say, Guild Wars 2 perhaps?
I've ran through North, East, South and West Shrouds-
Same with Thanalan areas
There's way more than this right, because the game honestly feels quite small and it's kinda depressing .-.

I haven't got Heavensward though, and would like to ask how much content that adds as far as exploration goes

From what I read on other forums it is smaller than GW2, eos, or WoW.
But it does have room to grow as eorzea is one continent on the planet.

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Originally Posted by Trussblink

Relative to let's say, Guild Wars 2 perhaps?
I've ran through North, East, South and West Shrouds-
Same with Thanalan areas
There's way more than this right, because the game honestly feels quite small and it's kinda depressing .-.

I haven't got Heavensward though, and would like to ask how much content that adds as far as exploration goes

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There are also 5 or so zones in La Noscea. Coerthas Western Highlands and Mor Dhona in the base game. Heavenward added 2 city zones and 7 other zones with the 7 outside zones being about twice the size of the ARR zones.

Additionally the new Expansion next Summer will undoubtedly be adding more zones.

It's definitely smaller than gw2, but since the end game focus is all instanced it makes sense.

The new HW areas are much bigger than shroud/thanalan/la noscea, but they're like 1 giant zone instead of 3 or 4 smaller zones. If you took all the maps and added them together it would probably be comparable to some of those other games, but it does feel smaller since they are all broken up into smaller zones. Plus, you have to count all the dungeon areas, which are relatively decent sized. Looks like you're still pretty new, the game will open up quite a bit more so just stick with it if you enjoy it so far.

In the original A Realm Reborn portion of the game, there are 3 main cities and 17 other regions, 4 in the Shroud, 5 in Thanalan, 6 in La Noscea, and 2 other independent regions. I'm pretty sure the North Shroud is the smallest of them, with maybe Southern Thanalan or else Coerthas Central Highlands being the largest. Sounds like you've been to about half of them so far, though at your level I doubt you'd have been able to fully explore them yet.

I believe I heard that Heavensward adds another 9 regions (I think that includes the city), but they're 1.5 to 2 times the size of Realm Reborn regions, plus they allow flying, so there's vertical space and multiple levels.

And of course as more expansions come out, it will keep growing. What we've got in-game so far is still just a small portion of the world.


So overall, a bit on the smallish side perhaps, particularly if you compare it to older games that already have a lot more expansions out, but still plenty of room for a lot to happen.

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Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

... but it does feel smaller since they are all broken up into smaller zones.

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Though players have tried to claim all kinds of different things as being due to PS3 limitations, one of the few things that SE themselves acknowledged as being due to the limitations of the PS3 platform is that they had to keep zones fairly small (and therefore more subdivided than they would have liked). With PS3 support being dropped when the next expansion comes out, I'm expecting Stormblood's new regions to be larger (though that might also mean fewer of them).

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Though players have tried to claim all kinds of different things as being due to PS3 limitations, one of the few things that SE themselves acknowledged as being due to the limitations of the PS3 platform is that they had to keep zones fairly small (and therefore more subdivided than they would have liked). With PS3 support being dropped when the next expansion comes out, I'm expecting Stormblood's new regions to be larger (though that might also mean fewer of them).

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They say that, but.. Why was it a problem for ARR but not for HW? Seems a bit contradictory.. Though I suppose they could've got more efficient with programming and design to allow for larger zones on the ps3. Either way, I wasn't necessarily complaining about the divided zones, just commenting that the world map feels smaller as a result, but in total it's pretty large.

I was always a bit confused at to why people want extremely large areas. Could just be me but players are rarely if ever outside of a major city. Only time is when there's some sort if event or for a quest. Idk I just don't get it :?

No one know how big the would is, As Eorzea is just a small part of a MUCH bigger continent. That is role over by the Empire, we sit in the SW most part. (We as in Eorzea) For what iv read the Empire is 10x bigger then us and there are 2 others big continents on the plaint we have yet to see or hear form. But the Empire is at war with them too. A much bigger war! (Still! This was also backstory form the 1.0 game, as for how much of it is still true, who knows)

Im sure the would it self is 100x bigger then what we can see now and with 8-10years of Ex Pack and more in game story to come over the years. We may get to see more of the other continents at some point. Also im sure (80% sure) 5.0 3+years form now (3rd XPack) will take us to the Empire, and open the map up even more. But that just my hope! lol

Also most of us that have been here for 5years 2010 drop of 1.0, the 1st 2-X pack were easy to call, Ishgerd and Ala Mhigo, As we know Ishgard was coming hands down be for 1.0 ended. Also that by the 2nd or 3rd XPack we have Ala Mhigo next as it the last CityStat to free/join us. After that it move on to fight the Empire or 3rd XPack will be to rebuild Eorzea and get rdy to fight the empire in the 4th X Pack. But will see still have 3-5years be for all that comes to light.