Who else is excited to see the world?!

[3Jane]

This I did not know. Why'd they cut it?

Mor Dhona 1.0 was wild wooly and dangerous, at least immediately after launch anyway until they made it safer. Even then you still had to be careful.
On the map Catenau the location of the 'Final Battle ' was about lower left with Camp Brittlebark lower right. Brittlebark was where my self and L.S ( now F.C ) friends were when the end came and the servers closed. So sad.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/maps/mor-dhona.php

[Felis]

This I did not know. Why'd they cut it?

Here you can see the whole Mor Dhona from 1.0

Currently we have only access to the north side of the lake in ARR.

Old Camp Revenant's Toll before it got destroyed:

[LlenCoram]

This I did not know. Why'd they cut it?

Similar to what Felis showed, this is the old Coerthas:



What we have now is the central highlands around that big hole in the middle.

Riversmeet is in the western highlands, across that bridge that is now completely blocked off by a giant wall of ice near what is now Behemoth's domain. I tried getting some BLM together once to burn it down, but no dice.

What I find interesting is that the current central highlands go directly into the Shroud, skipping over the lowlands. If you watching pay attention to the landscape at the margins though, there's a really really obvious difference. I'm wondering if they're just sorta scooting us over the lowlands and later we'll actually get them or if they just nuked the whole thing.

[DenzelTaru]

seen as its been taking alot of inspiration from FFIII i think it would be interesting to find out Eorzea is a floating continent.

[CYoung187]

Hoping all of this comes soon and is worth exploring. Don't know why they call us adventurers and not dungeon raiders. I don't see much exploration.

[Kazza2003]

It is quite interesting how many, old or new players, wish that actually the map size from 1.0 should come back into game. . . but then there will also be the people who complain about bad performance and about getting lost. I think it´s quite a struggle for SE to fit everyone.

But personally I would love to see the ARR design on bigger maps. Currently they are really a bit small.

[Faedden]

I like the world and I'm pretty positive they will open up more places but then I get sad because it's like whats the point? There won't be any reason to explore them. Not to mention all the loading screens ._.

[Tiggy]

Of course we'll see more of the world in future content. Mmos as a genre make this questions answer plainly obvious. Expansions always add new areas and regions. The breadcrumbs are already in the game as it stands and we have plenty of great candidates.

[Otoha]

Like some have already said, won't matter more than the few minutes it takes to explore them if they're all the same small, wide-open, hand holding, bare maps with no danger and nothing worth ( and I mean really worth ) farming or working towards in some way, achieving.

[Kiyouma]

Whoa thanks for the maps and pictures guys!

I would love it if they brought those areas back! Here's hoping that it will return someday~
I do love how they are showing time progress (revenant toll's expansion). So maybe someday they'll expand on land?

But, I can imagine the crazy load times lol.