Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
FFXI's zones are dull in comparison to FFXIV's zones. Ronfarue, Saruta, etc. Were all incredible looking back in 03'. But go back to them. Look now. They're dull. They don't have much in the terms of life to them, and look a lot like FFXIV's 1.0 version zones if you made them smaller and took out the copy-pasta. Pretty, but quite empty.

Go on, talk a walk soak it in. The zones are so much more than what you give them credit for. Only thing I'll agree with you is the reduced sense of danger in them. And honestly, that's fine by me, if you run in the wrong direction, you still can get yourself killed.
Actually I have done just this and find just about every ffxi zone to have more to them than any 1 of ffxiv's.