Suggestion: Burn Gridania and the Black Shroud Down and Start Over

[Corrderio]

Why stop there? Do it to all zones.

[Demacia]

Why stop there? Do it to all zones.

This. XIV has the most boring and poorly designed world I've ever seen in an MMO.

[SilvertearRen]

Not possible. That would entail another 3-4 years of development work to rebuild the worlds themselves. Square Enix would be run into the ground by then.

You'll have to put up with the world's current state, but gameplay and content additions are on the way.

[Alexis_Arteme]

Not possible. That would entail another 3-4 years of development work to rebuild the worlds themselves. Square Enix would be run into the ground by then.

You'll have to put up with the world's current state, but gameplay and content additions are on the way.

Not really. World of Warcraft builds an entirely new Zone about every other year. He's merely asking for one of FFXIV's zones to be replaced, and I concur. I'd like to see Gridania an "open" zone like the other two, just with lots of trees as it is currently, so I can walk AROUND deathbird as opposed to having to walk through it.

[Onidemon]

Not possible. That would entail another 3-4 years of development work to rebuild the worlds themselves. Square Enix would be run into the ground by then.

You'll have to put up with the world's current state, but gameplay and content additions are on the way.

Didn't blizzard re-designed a whole bunch of worlds in WOW in the last expansion? We are not asking to build a game from scratch here. They have the engine, a built game with tools and loads of textures that are already done... it would take much less time then you think to re-design these areas but for sure it is not a priority for now being that the gameplay is so bad.....

[Ava]

Didn't blizzard re-designed a whole bunch of worlds in WOW in the last expansion? We are not asking to build a game from scratch here. They have the engine, a built game with tools and loads of textures that are already done... it would take much less time then you think to re-design these areas but for sure it is not a priority for now being that the gameplay is so bad.....

World of Warcraft zones are roughly 1/10th the size of one FFXIV zone and the graphics aren't nearly as detailed. Blizzard was probably working on redoing Azeroth back in TBC, whereas Square just released XIV. We won't see any changes like this to current zones but they can certainly use the feedback for future zones provided the feedback is constructive. Another option would be to splice the current zones and redo sections of them into completely new zones. Since there's a huge abundance of unused land in the current zones this could be a very viable option. The world of Eorzea is very large right now, I'm not sure why they decided to make every zone so absolutely enormous.

[Suzaku]

Didn't blizzard re-designed a whole bunch of worlds in WOW in the last expansion? We are not asking to build a game from scratch here. They have the engine, a built game with tools and loads of textures that are already done... it would take much less time then you think to re-design these areas but for sure it is not a priority for now being that the gameplay is so bad.....

The problem is that they would have to not only redesign a multi-zone area much larger than any zone in WoW, they have also have to continue completely revamping the stuff already in place.

[Cairdeas]

The problem is that they would have to not only redesign a multi-zone area much larger than any zone in WoW, they have also have to continue completely revamping the stuff already in place.

Like other have said you wouldn't have to rebuild everything just small sections. The areas directly around Grid should be more open atleast. Also there should be more things in what is currently "Open Space" inside grid.

[AshelyRiot]

Person I love the black shroud and it's not that confusing. Take some time to learn how the place works.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

This. XIV has the most boring and poorly designed world I've ever seen in an MMO.

Originally Posted by Corrderio Why stop there? Do it to all zones.

you two should play DCUO. Now that is real copy and paste.