FFXIV has lost it's magic

[Rhas]

also. um no. most XI zones are fairly small compared to even the smallest XIV zones, you could get through most zones in XI in less than 2 minutes on foot. most of the ones you couldnt were due to obstacles. I don't think you are remembering the same game. the largest zones were like valkurm dunes , beaudacine glacier and a few select others and even those were not very big. obsticales do not make something small bigger, they just make them a bigger time waster

I'm sorry but at US launch you could *not* even run through zones like East Sarutabaruta in 2 minutes. Later on they increased (several times) how fast your character (and monsters) ran, but at launch when there weren't even chocobos it easily took 4-5 minutes to run through the zone. And that was just straight running and bypassing the monsters. More like it took 5 - 10 minutes to run through XI's *smallest* zones.

[Yurikitty]

I'm sorry but at US launch you could *not* even run through zones like East Sarutabaruta in 2 minutes. Later on they increased (several times) how fast your character (and monsters) ran, but at launch when there weren't even chocobos it easily took 4-5 minutes to run through the zone. And that was just straight running and bypassing the monsters.

Oh yes, the 45 minute run to Jueno for the first time, whilst you prayed to every god you knew that you would arrive safely. It saddens me to think they have shrunk the FFXI world as well. Used to be the only "fast travel" you could get was a pocket whm, a teleport <insert telepoint here> and running around to rent the choco, and you still had a 5 minute run into <insert city here>. Much faster than the airship.

[Rhas]

Oh yes, the 45 minute run to Jueno for the first time, whilst you prayed to every god you knew that you would arrive safely. It saddens me to think they have shrunk the FFXI world as well. Used to be the only "fast travel" you could get was a pocket whm, a teleport <insert telepoint here> and running around to rent the choco, and you still had a 5 minute run into <insert city here>. Much faster than the airship.

I hear you there. And Jeuno was just the midway point between all the cities.

There is no place you cannot run in XIV in 45 minutes even on foot, since most zones only take 5 minutes or less to run through these days :/ I kind of miss the old 1.0 areas for their sizes (but not the copy/pasted terrain) heh