What interest is there in swimming, climbing, and seamless zones?

[Transmigration]

One of my favorite things in MMOs is exploration. One of my least favorite things is invisible walls and movement limitations.

When PS3 gets dropped, can we do seamless zones again?

Yoshi mentioned something about swimming being a possibility. Can this actually happen?

Climbing is a long shot, but it's very enjoyable once you've experienced it.

Opinions?

[Rowyne]

I, for one, can't wait until they put swimming into the game!

As for seamless zones, the only place where it bothers me is in town. I miss the fluid feeling that Ul'dah had in 1.0. Everything felt centralized and easy to navigate. But now it's odd since you only see half the circle on one map. (Ul'dah's map used to look more like Ironforge). In the open world, the loading screens don't bother me as much as I thought they would.

[Transmigration]

Yeah I would take any seamless zone, even if it was just from town to world.

[Mwynn]

Seamless Zones? With those long corridors until you reached the next Zone? Going a long Dungeon Corridor until you actually entered the beginning of the Dungeon? 1.0 calls.

Imagine you put each Zone next to the others without having some sort of a road leading to the next one.
The actual World would look rather smaller then it is now, it would look strange due of the Weather Conditions we have Ingame and Area types (Speaking of Thanalan and Gridania, that would look strange if they just put Wood next to the Desert)

Things like these needs a huge amount of Development Time, you have to actually build some workaround to make these Zones seamless and their original Focus on that was in the 1.0 Tunnel System...
Building Assets is not done in some Days or Months. That'll take Months if not 1-2 Years if they had to rebuild the actual World to match with the Worldmap.

I would enjoy that aswell, seeing Sea of Clouds from a very far Distance. But due of technical Limitations.. ugh

[Transmigration]

Seamless Zones? With those long corridors until you reached the next Zone? Going a long Dungeon Corridor until you actually entered the beginning of the Dungeon? 1.0 calls.

Imagine you put each Zone next to the others without having some sort of a road leading to the next one.
The actual World would look rather smaller then it is now, it would look strange due of the Weather Conditions we have Ingame and Area types (Speaking of Thanalan and Gridania, that would look strange if they just put Wood next to the Desert)

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Is FFXIV the only MMO you've played? Dozens of others have seamless zones and they work just fine.

[BHGlobbd]

It takes a year or two for the expansions, no one is asking for the seemless world in one day. WoW changed the entirety of the game world all in one expansion. It is entirely possible for the world to return to being seemless, the first step is dropping PS3.

[Laerune]

They should add the big overworld from FFXIV 1.0, just dont add copypasta like the previous time.

[Transmigration]

It takes a year or two for the expansions, no one is asking for the seemless world in one day. WoW changed the entirety of the game world all in one expansion. It is entirely possible for the world to return to being seemless, the first step is dropping PS3.

Right? I'm not saying right now, but in the future.

[Transmigration]

They should add the big overworld from FFXIV 1.0, just dont add copypasta like the previous time.

That would be fuckin sweet.

[Uhm]

Yes. I want that. I really REALLY want that.