Quote Originally Posted by Slicedevice View Post
So, I know this is topic has been discussed to death and all, but i thought i'd just share my feelings aswell.

I think the game right now suffers alot from flying alone in the game. Not necessary JUST the flying, but i feel like SE has put the focus on the wrong aspects in the wrong order.
For example, if you fly around in The Fringes just to "take in the environment" or just wanna explore for fun, you'll soon notice that you see stuff the devs are trying to hide from the player, if they were on the ground level. You can see clippings behind "Mountains", Baelsars wall just randomly stops, which begs the questing "Why didnt we just walk around the wall?" and so on.
XIV does certainly have some of the worst coverage in that regard. I remember the first time I was flying in the Dravanian Forelands and noticing that the whole thing seemed to be apparently on this roughly circular plateau that, chasmed off from further mountains that similarly end jaggedly. It was like the kind of thing you'd expect from a community map hastily made, yet all one needed to do to encounter the issue was... fly some three hundred feet, which... well, why wouldn't you? It was just so instantly immersion-breaking... And I know "immersion" gets ridiculed a lot in the first place in an FF game, but I don't mean perfect immersion, just whatever amount of it we had before; it was instantly gone. I tried to forget about it as quickly as I could and kept low enough not to see it in the future but still just felt so off compared to the quality of the map at ground level.