The world feels too small.

[Uki]

Well,we're on vanilla i don't expect anything BIG or explorable.I'm the only one here that thinks that the devs wanted to test players behaviour with this "casual/easy" content?.Something is telling me that this game is going to change alot when the 1st expansion comes out.

[Kirith]

Well,we're on vanilla i don't expect anything BIG or explorable.I'm the only one here that thinks that the devs wanted to test players behaviour with this "casual/easy" content?.Something is telling me that this game is going to change alot when the 1st expansion comes out.

Occam's razor, Uki. If you put faith aside, you'll see that testing players is the last thing Square Enix is concerned about. They are just human employees of a company which took a vertiginous tumble in its market value. Their main, if not only concern, is popularity and retention figures of the game.

That said, the world is smaller because it has all been remade from scratch to dispel the complaints about "copy-pasted" areas and "not enough variety". Now we have said "variety", but obviously smaller areas to make up for the development cost. I'm somewhat convinced it is their development model to be flawed, but factually, this is the situation.