Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
You didn't ever wince in agony exploring the landscape to find that anything remotely interesting was locked behind gates?

Cerulium fields and Sylph village anyone? Not to mention a bunch of other stuff.
The whole reason stuff was behind locked down gates was because it wasn't implemented yet. Would you have rathered there be nothing there instead? It was still fun to explore and find those places, even if they didn't have a purpose at the time. There's still tons of places in FFXI that have no purpose whatsoever.