This is what FF14 Needs

[Khalus]

There are pretty things in FFXIV as well but they have no purpose and give you no reason to go there. When you can go from R1 to R50 in one zone there is very little reason to go anywhere else. In FFXI as you levelled you would move from zone to zone fighting tougher enemies and while doing so you could experience and explore the world a little bit on your journey. In FFXIV there is no journey, just leves for the most part and that means you hover around the same places day in day out.

This is one of the main reasons why I found FFXI so appealing. There was so much detail, so much heart put in each of the zones even with the limited graphical resources they had. After several years I still discovered new things, often by accident, and it was such a great feeling. Made the world feel so much more alive and dynamic.

This is the primary reason why I'm so adamant that SE scrap XIV, and just remake FFXI, as they should have to begin with. Sure it would have been a massive undertaking, but so was building XIV, only to basically rebuild it again, as they're doing now...le sigh

Anyone that has played XI extensively and was actually attentive to the story, lore, world and everything the NPCs said would know there is a massive amount to the world of Vana'diel that was talked about or mentioned, but has never been added. Here is a map someone made that I'm assuming is their depiction of where the other continents are located and their shape/size.

There is a massive amount of untapped content for FFXI, and it really saddens me the way SE have changed FFXI, and how they ruined XIV. If only they had remade XI instead and moved it onto the PS3 so the PS2 would stop holding it back. Seriously, those still playing on the PS2 would have to just suck it up and repurchase the game remade and/or a PS3 to continue playing...or the PC ver.

Makes em wonder what zones will be reused for the lvl 91-95 and 96-99 level cap raise. And will we ever get another epic storyline to play through, seeing as Abyssea was quite short and not that great, or so I'm told. Just think, we could have been adventuring on another continent instead of waiting on them to fix this most horrible decision...