Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
FFXI's zone size was an illusion created by characters running very slowly... In actuality most zones in FFXI are pretty much the same size as ARR ones (by comparing maps).
I messed around with a FFXI private server recently, and no... your wrong. I was thinking the same thing that maybe I was misremembering and I forgot the size of the zones, but holy shit were XI zones big. La Theine Plateau is probably the size of Coerthas and it's the second zone you go to if you start in San d'oria. And it isn't copy/paste (or is well hidden) unlike 1.0. Also mind you I was running at x6 times the speed of a normal character (max speed), so "player speed" wasn't giving me any illusions.

Also something I realized is unlike XIV, there were many caves, forts, and tombs to explore, (some of which connect to other zones)... not just whatever is on the surface. The closest we have to that in XIV is the hole in the ground in South Shroud... blocked off by invisible walls.