I'm always skeptical when they show us just new zones. To new or casual players, eye candy is enough. But to veterans, we need more details. We know that the zones only hold Story Quests, FATEs, Leves, Gathering and Beast Tribe Quests. We need to be assured that the development team have realised that the zones they make just turn into dead zones after a short period of time.

And that really makes the game feel like its gone two steps back even though this is what a modern MMO seems to be. It really makes this game feel eerily similar to the now ancient PSO on the dreamcast/xbox with hub world and levels (or in FF14's term "Idllyshire and Roulettes/Trials/Raids")

I am hoping we at least get some kind of endgame activity which uses the open world (in addition to the raids and trials we get presently)