New area speculation for 1st expansion

[Tupsi]

Those would be some seriously tiny "expansions". When I think expansion, I think "entire continent's worth of new stuff".

Yeah, but people would complain because they think they're copying FFXI which introduced new jobs, new lands, tons of new nooks and crannies to explore, some even entire new continents or "filler" of places that are on the map but could never get to. So you're not wrong, but this community has an interesting affinity for complaining if something comes even close to mimicking FFXI or other MMOs aside the 'standard.'

Considering Yoshi basically says the 'next version', e.g 3.0, 4.0 and so on would be the 'expansion', it's more of a glorified update than expansion.

[Naunet]

Yeah, but people would complain because they think they're copying FFXI

Well, what you described isn't exactly unique to XI. I have a hard time imagining people complaining about it.