The World: so Big so Beautiful... But yet so empty

[TankHunter678]

Why do people think this is the only way to do open world zones? Surely you've played MMOs other than FFXIV 1.0.

I have played other MMOs with the "seamless open world" which if you ever had slow loading were basically stitched together with endlessly looping loading tunnels, be they tunnels with visible walls or not. As the system still had to unload the area you were leaving and load in the area you are entering.

In going from 1.x to 2.0 they simply swapped the copy paste endlessly looping terrain for loading screens. Since people complained about the copy paste terrain.

So yeah, that is literally what developers do in attempting to make the open world "seamless". Partition off areas with loading walls between them and a section of the terrain set as the loading wall terrain. If you got a strong machine that is quick to load, and a good connection to back it up, it seems seamless when really it is not.

[Naunet]

I have played other MMOs with the "seamless open world" which if you ever had slow loading were basically stitched together with endlessly looping loading tunnels, be they tunnels with visible walls or not. As the system still had to unload the area you were leaving and load in the area you are entering.

I can climb over mountains and around valleys, swim across rivers, jump cliffs, and in some cases even fly from zone to zone in WoW, Rift, TERA, WildStar, Archeage, and BDO - and those are just the ones I've played in. NEVER have I felt like I was being funneled through a narrow, looping tunnel in the way people describe 1.0.