Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
Also, if you make players jump through hoops to get maps for areas, they'll just make a program to rip the maps out of the data, mark them and enhance them, then put them where the map would have been. These days, people are all about using any excuse to cheat they can. "they didn't give me a map" is well within their mindset of justified.

I don't think it adds enough adventure to justify the painful, inevitable fetch questing or spawn the demand for a third party application.
And that's basically what everyone did in FFXI.. so I think it's actually better to have them already in game, prevents hassle and third-party program usage they so much loathe at SE..

Anyways, generally speaking.. would you travel the world without roadmaps..? If you want to get lost then go ahead..
Adventure..? I don't recall the characters from the lord of the rings questing their maps through middle earth.. and there was adventure..