Quote Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra View Post
Well, to be fair, we do have a whole desert area where there's not much in it either near Forgotten Springs, that does make sense that there's more monsters than actual intelligent life. I do agree with everything you've posted afterwards, but we do have a desert zone and it is pretty bland yet somehow we don't have nearly as many complaints about it as we with the Ruby Sea.
Because the Sagolii Desert only takes up half of Southern Thanalan and a portion of the overall Thanalan area. Plus it's mostly used as a landmark to distinguish it from the other areas in the region: Central Thanalan has the station, Western Thanalan has slight vegetation and borders the ocean, Eastern Thanalan has the canyon and Burning Wall and Southern Thanalan has the desert.
The Ruby Sea has the volcanic area and then... water... lots and lots of water for the whole zone. And even if you argue the desert was still boring at least it had enemies to fight and a fairly unique look and feel to it with the heat waves and stuff like that.

It's also probably not helped by the fact that we already had a water centric zone before Ruby Sea, it's called La Noscea.