This game got limited by the PS3

[Mixxy]

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Careful, I had another thread practically wanting to skin me alive and burn me at the stake because I pointed out the copy-pasted zones. The general opinion around here is that the 1.0 world was perfect in every way, and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic. It's the 'vanilla wow was best wow' crap all over again...

Anyway, you've identified the core problem of massive zones. The days when you could just run your terrain brush back and forth for an hour and call it a zone are over. These days, every single minute detail has to be crafted to perfection. A couple of square feet can take days. So of course, the development time for a single zone has increased astronomically. Thus, the goal today is small but prettier zones. I'm not saying we should stop demanding more from SE, but we need to keep this in mind before we start shitting ourselves because they weren't able to triple the landmass in a month.

[Pseudopsia]

Careful, I had another thread practically wanting to skin me alive and burn me at the stake because I pointed out the copy-pasted zones. The general opinion around here is that the 1.0 world was perfect in every way, and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic. It's the 'vanilla wow was best wow' crap all over again...

What!, It's pretty hard to defend this:
Black Shroud Final Fantasy XIV 1.0

This is copy/pasted zone at its worst. Well at least the textures are nice