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

[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.