One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP

[Neptune]

Yes, Aion really is a beautiful game. It's a little glimmery because of the celestial theme, but I personally love it. I had originally believed Eorzea would be just as beautiful, just more realistic.

But realism doesn't mean sacrificing variety.

The regions of Eorzea are often termed 'frontiers'. America was once a great frontier. And the land is a great mixture of plains, fields, mountains, deserts, canyons, rivers, lakes, shores, snow, rain, tornadoes...

The frontiers of Eorzea have no variety within the three major starting regions.

Yeah I have thought of this too; that the zones were meant to be realistic. They don't look fantastical at all. Maybe that plays into the lore; I don't know. They do seem like frontiers. However, they would be better frontiers if they didn't copy/paste. I don't really have anything against the frontier look, but I hope they expand to more interesting looking zones in the future.

If I may continue to use a reference:

What if we never had to leave the city walls in 11?

What if this was all we knew?

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I wholeheartedly support multiple areas with similar range, similar stages of progression. But right now, we have none. No progression. Adventure.

What's the right thing to do in this situation?

Oh God, that link really hit a chord with me. I'm going to post it 10 times ..please people click this.

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HOLY MOTHER OF THE TWELVE! You really hit the nail on the head. You see all the bottlenecks when you copy/paste the 11 zones on to each other? That must have been what they did, because Thanalan and the Shroud look the exact same, with bottlenecks in between regions. That literally is all they did, design 1 or 2 areas and then mass copy/paste it.

Now look at Thanalan, lol:

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/maps...s-thanalan.jpg

The Black Shroud:

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/maps...ack-shroud.jpg

Coerthas:

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/maps...s-coerthas.jpg

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[Sigmakan]

Slightly concerning that they don't see this as a fundamental flaw, but at least they acknowledge that its a big issue.

[Anty]

Slightly concerning that they don't see this as a fundamental flaw, but at least they acknowledge that its a big issue.

i think this is one of the most important things if they wanna turn the game around. Like many testers also stated,
fixes, updates, expansions won't really help the game because the core lacks a good feeling/fun feeling/immersion.

If they don't change this, and fast (so they can work on other stuff), im pretty sure it is a waste of money what they are doin right now.... sadly

[ChaoticUno]

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whoever posted the link above thank you... this truely would help our feeling of adventure

[Chinook]

French thread done.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...415#post174415

Need 25 "likes" for it to become a "hot topic" (French forums aren't very active ...).

[Demacia]

This is my favorite thread yet! Yoshida please respond to this!

I have to agree. I'm honestly VERY surprised at how well this thread turned out. Keep it up guys, hopefully the devs catch word of this soon because as I said before it's one of if not the biggest issue with this game.

[Anty]

French thread done.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...415#post174415

Need 25 "likes" for it to become a "hot topic" (French forums aren't very active ...).

*liked* .

[Richard]

lol thanks chin :3

[Stupifyed]

Liked it, hope it catches on.

[Eekiki]

Over 150 likes to the OP. Over 300 replies in three days. No official acknowledgment.

SE, I believe this thread makes it painfully obvious what the dev team's priority needs to be if they want this game to succeed as much as they claim to.