Will the 3 cities be complete in 2.0?

[KamikazeMan]

I haven't been keeping up with every ounce of information, so forgive me if it's been mentioned already. But was it mentioned if cities will be complete in 2.0? I remember reading that they will be tweaked, but I'm referring to the fact that atm, we're teleported to several instances from one location in the cities - market ward, grand company, and other places depending on the city. Do we know if these places are going to have actual locations on the city map?

Idk, but it seems to me like the market ward area was never complete so they went with making it an instance to rush the game out and the other places we're teleported to weren't added till Yoshida took over. That's why I'm asking =x

[Wynn]

Can you imagine all those retainers standing on the street in Ul'dah? It would be an even worse lagfest than it is now. I think the server would go nuclear. I'm pretty sure the market wards being instanced was quite intended.

[KamikazeMan]

Can you imagine all those retainers standing on the street in Ul'dah? It would be an even worse lagfest than it is now. I think the server would go nuclear. I'm pretty sure the market wards being instanced was quite intended.

That's not what I mean >_>

For the market ward, we can have an actual building made up of several floors (for each ward) to represent the market ward...assuming it stays the way it is now. For the Grand Company, we can have an actual building on the city map represent it. A building we can actually enter.

[Wynn]

That's now what I mean >_>

For the market ward, we can have an actual building made up of several floors (for each ward) to represent the market ward...assuming it stays the way it is now. For the Grand Company, we can have an actual building on the city map represent it. A building we can actually enter.

Gotcha. Yeah, I agree then. That would be nice.

[Theplatter]

I'm gonna go with no.

[Renen]

Gonna go with yes

[Chardrizard]

Gonna go with Justin Bieber.

[viion]

They said in that letter they wanted to kind of bring them out and create a proper street, likely still same setup just rather than this dark narrow room you have this open wide area with them in.

I get your point tho, we just go to this alley, talk to something invisible and magically appear in a dark and dingy place with no recollection of how we got there, characterless people staring at you and the loud steps of foot movement, talking to the door, you wake up in the middle of a city, like it was a dream...

[Valmonte]

there are a lot of inaccessible area's that could be of interest, uldah oddly enough has many area's that are closed off or only used for few cut scenes. the Uldah Catacombs" sounds like a great place for a low Level open world dungeon, Uldah also seems to have its very own Mineshaft, and a 4th level that simply states "you cannot proceed beyond this point"

Limsa Has 2 unused blocked off area's, one that would appear to lead to a ship moar, and another just like uldah that states "you cannot proceed beyond this point". the stairs appear to spiral downward...maybe a dungeon that was never completed.

Gridania Doesn't appear to have any mystery area's, but there are blocked off access points to a waterfall and a Orchid of sorts.

[Reika]

Nah man. we're all going to have to change our starting city to Gridania on ARR launch.