My opinions on Flight and world design in FFXIV and my reasons for quiting the game.

[LisSquid]

I can't really agree on flight, but I have complained that zones are basically mob farms since SE moved away from ARR design. (I really miss the way they made the zones in ARR. I still walk through them because they feel like a world.)

But, yeah, half the quests in this game are go here to see this to go there to see that, when they could just have easily put those npcs in the same place. Or had some kind of courier send that message. We're the Warrior of Light, ffs! We have better things to do than be someones messenger. It really is just to pad time.

Sad to see you go, but hope you find what you're looking for elsewhere!

[Allegor]

I can't really agree on flight, but I have complained that zones are basically mob farms since SE moved away from ARR design. (I really miss the way they made the zones in ARR. I still walk through them because they feel like a world.)

I really miss ARR style zones too, when you saw a building it was an actual building you could go in, some with npcs inside and all, but pretty much every single "building" in SB for example, is just a giant cube with a paintover, and that really kills the illusion of it being an open world rather than just a stage.

As for the aether currents, they're a joke compared to "complete every single quest in every single zone, get exalted reputation with several factions, complete like 100 fates, and complete this ~3 months long, time gated questline, and when if you're all done, wait for like a whole year till we unlock the feature anyways"

[Lanadra]

I can't really agree on flight, but I have complained that zones are basically mob farms since SE moved away from ARR design. (I really miss the way they made the zones in ARR. I still walk through them because they feel like a world.)

But, yeah, half the quests in this game are go here to see this to go there to see that, when they could just have easily put those npcs in the same place. Or had some kind of courier send that message. We're the Warrior of Light, ffs! We have better things to do than be someones messenger. It really is just to pad time.

Sad to see you go, but hope you find what you're looking for elsewhere!

I completely agree. I think that for Endwalker I should stand in the solar in the Rising Stones, where they tell me the entirety of the expansion's story, without me having to go anywhere. I've no desire to see new maps, no desire to go on an adventure, I don't want to be given any reason to leave the safety of the Rising Stones. Thal's balls I'm a Warrior of Light damn it, not some.. some.. adventurer!

[Garet]

I can't really agree on flight, but I have complained that zones are basically mob farms since SE moved away from ARR design. (I really miss the way they made the zones in ARR. I still walk through them because they feel like a world.)

But, yeah, half the quests in this game are go here to see this to go there to see that, when they could just have easily put those npcs in the same place. Or had some kind of courier send that message. We're the Warrior of Light, ffs! We have better things to do than be someones messenger. It really is just to pad time.

Sad to see you go, but hope you find what you're looking for elsewhere!

Agree. But it is the way with MMOs. They just do not have the same amount of time and planning to implement on xpac what they had for the initial product. So usually the first initial launches of mmos tend to have bigger immersive worlds than subsequent xpacs.

Gridania Forest is still sooooo nice to travel though. I sometimes travel on the ground when I am passing thru it just to enjoy the forest complete with sounds of birds etc.

[LisSquid]

Agree. But it is the way with MMOs. They just do not have the same amount of time and planning to implement on xpac what they had for the initial product. So usually the first initial launches of mmos tend to have bigger immersive worlds than subsequent xpacs.

Gridania Forest is still sooooo nice to travel though. I sometimes travel on the ground when I am passing thru it just to enjoy the forest complete with sounds of birds etc.

I'd have to disagree. ESO and WoW continue to make worlds with just as much detail, and sometimes more. I have described the world design of FFXIV from SB onward as what the world staging looked like in Perfect World. They can, they just don't.