Why is each town so boring?

[Sephr]

You shouldnt really compare FFXIV in april 2011 to FFXI at release in 2003 or 2002 whenever it came out. For 1 this is SEs 2nd MMO they should have learned something from the first. Also what was acceptable in 2002 or 2003 isnt acceptable now. and last but not least FFXIV released in sept of 2010, we are roughly 7 months into retail this isnt exactly a new release anymore.

Whilst that's a perfectly good arguement for many areas of the game, i'd avoid mindlessly regurgitating it where it doesn't apply. Most people here are agreeing that the cities are good enough (they're far more interesting than FFXI's anyway, Sand'oria and Bastok were boring as hell to look at).

Size isn't everything anyway, not that it matters because the only XI city that was bigger was Windurst, and it sucked ass because of it (to the point they had to add NPCs to teleport you to different bits of the city, if that doesnt smack of poor design I don't know what does.)