Eorzea feels like a world with no teeth.

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I started this game in 2.0, but from video footage of 1.0 and years of playing open world MMOs, i really have no love for requests of scale with no substance. Or content with no real reason for adding it. Or random enemy camps littered around the world that can kill you for no good reason.

Randomly falling into a pit or walking into an area and being blown up isn't "good design". It's just nostalgic design, because thats what old MMOs use to do.

Smart MMOs don't do that anymore because it's stupid, and, surprisingly, not many people enjoy that sort of thing.


The 2.0 world of FFXIV is pretty and it's functional. You don't have to travel far to see shit happening. And honestly, it's the only reason i kept playing the game. I have no desire to waste my life watching my character jog across an empty green texture for 7 minutes.