Poll: Seamless+CopyPaste VS. Zones+Variety

[Physic]

or the third option is large zones that are seamless, but a lot more zones overall with different assets, or just have some large and some small.
But if i have to choose, id go with smaller zones with more variation.

Honestly though i dont buy the excuse, i think its just lazyness, coerthas is way less monotonous than black shroud for example. And la noscea has bridges, beaches, mountains, caves, multiple dungeons, all without direct loading

[Rentahamster]

or the third option is large zones that are seamless, but a lot more zones overall with different assets, or just have some large and some small.
But if i have to choose, id go with smaller zones with more variation.

Yeah, I realize that there are other options to choose from, but a poll with too many choices is diluted and useless in determining the general wishes of a player base.

I felt the two extremes would be a good way to gauge the general feeling as to which priorites the playerbase holds higher in regard (seamless or variety) since it seems as if gains in one area sacrifices from the other.

[Pooky]

Hands down #2. I really have 0 interest in exploring the world we have now. And exploration is the biggest thing to me in a MMO. Unless we get a lot more variety in zones, no matter of tweaks and fixes will keep me around.

[KorPoni]

Hands down #2. I really have 0 interest in exploring the world we have now. And exploration is the biggest thing to me in a MMO. Unless we get a lot more variety in zones, no matter of tweaks and fixes will keep me around.

I'm pretty much done with FFXIV for that reason now. I could never get tired of FFXI's simpler, smaller zones because they are expansive and unrepetitive. Sure, some things repeat, but it's not as frequent or obvious as FFXIV. And that's if there were no expansions or updates.

But, unless the outdoor regions of FFXIV get a massive makeover to be more believable than the copy/pasted crap they have now, I'm not going back to it no matter how awesome they make combat, quests, the storyline, or anything else.

[Miliant]

Sorry, but there is no seamlessness in FFXIV. You sit through a loading screen every time you cross from Noscea to Thanalan, or Black Shroud, etc...

Seamless means seamless. FFXIV is not seamless; it's just a game with huge areas separated by loading screens.