how big did ff11 area grow before and after all the expansion?

[ErzaScarlet77]

2 zones? They clearly showed at least 5

[Miste]

HW zones size are like 2 zones now, but we will be able to fly so....

2 zones? They clearly showed at least 5

He meant the land size of the new zones in HW are double the size of the ones we have now. So they added 5 zones but each one is equivalent to 2 zones of the size we are used to right now.

[Haibel]

2 zones? They clearly showed at least 5

NVM I got beat to it.

[ElHeggunte]

2 zones? They clearly showed at least 5

I think he meant the HW zones are apparently twice the size of the current ARR ones.

I'll also say I never saw too much appeal behind really big zones. FFXI had huge zones, but they were largely empty, mostly useless space. They were big for the sake of being big (1.0 suffered from that a bit too, just not as severely). I quit shortly after the launch of WotG, but if that remained the status quo I wouldn't want to see that translated to FFXIV. Big zones are fine so long as you have reasons to visit and explore them regularly, otherwise they seem like a waste of development time.

[Felis]

2 zones? They clearly showed at least 5

I think he mean 1 1/2 regions

The zones were much bigger in 1.0 =/ though mostly copy pasta stuff... getting lost in the shrouds labyrinth because everywhere looks the same.

yeah shroud was a maze

Exactly this is a region, not a zone

Black Shroud zones in 1.0 would have been more like this: