Map size

[HunkyJimpjorps]

The areas accessible in ARR are about the same size as the areas accessible in the Three Nations regions in FFXI, excluding those that were part of expansions.

[Haoma]

I kinda thought this also. For one I think everyone moves faster, so it takes less time. Also the scale seems off, like far off characters look too small and dont seem to increase or decrease size at an appropriate rate for the speed. When I went back to FFXI last week, it was amazing how slow everyone moved. Probably why it took so long. In my opinion we all are all moving too fast in FFXIV.

Spot-on. A lot of the maps are actually pretty big in scale; what makes them seem that much smaller are the movement speeds, and the lack of any real cluttered/maze-like zones (i.e., Yhoator/Yuhtunga). SE also tailored all of the animations around the GCD (including the run cycle); naturally, you're going to need to match the cycle's timing up with the movement speed.

[Ferr]

The areas accessible in ARR are about the same size as the areas accessible in the Three Nations regions in FFXI, excluding those that were part of expansions.

I dunno, I may be wrong but I think Koschtat, La Theine, Rolanberry... are way bigger than anything in XIV ARR, and those were from vanilla XI.

[Alyko]

The maps aren't bigger in XIV, your character was slower in XI.

[Alhanelem]

like all Zilartian areas that were manmade uses cerment, which is why Delkfutt, Feiyin and Ru'Aun Gardens had similar designs but significantly different interiors

are you crazy, these areas wre more guilty of copypasta than anything. The same walls, the same doors, the same floors, the same debris, repeated all throughought all of these areas.

[RyujinUzikin]

The world is pretty big for a newly released mmo, but I wish zones weren't divided.

I get that having everything compressed saves space and lag and whatnot, I totally get that.

But I wish I walked into a main city and maybe get lost? Not feel that I'm walking around this tiny zone just to zone to another and so on.

I don't know, I can't feel that I'm in a massive world if they're just gonna divide everything in tiny pieces.