Eorzea Then and Now

[Tanama]

But nope! Invisible walls everywhere. Insurmountable cliffs everywhere. Canyons and tunnels funneling you from one node to the next. It takes all the vibrancy from the zones.

That is the one thing that irks me when exploring the lands. We are aloud to jump now but it is as you said with the invisible walls and insurmountable cliffs being all over the place. Your screenshot is a great example of how claustrophobic that type of map design can feel.

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I hope SE does give us the western, eastern, (southern?) sections of Coerthas along with Natalan in an expansion.

[Shurrikhan]

To me 1.0 only seemed bigger because the entire region was seamless. 2.0 is bigger IMO, just seems smaller because of the zone breaks.

Yes and no. Though copy-pasted for much of it, some zones obviously had far more square footage in 1.0.

To me the only substantial losses were to Coerthas, Mor Dhona, and particular key sights/sites in each of the main three states (though just as many new places very much worth delighting over were added). It was an improvement on the whole, but that doesn't mean I'm going to happy with losing Turning Leaf, Nine Ivies, or Sorrel Haven to nothingness (in place of a fun little criss-crossing rope-bridge and rivers almost puzzle-like area), a small and generic area (in place of an area with beautiful verticality and the most unique forest design I'd seen in any MMO), and a dried up well (in place of a majestic river that spanned a good 10 minutes' walk downstream), respectively.

[Lexi]

people seem to have a problem with copy pasted maps nowadays, id rather have a larger map that is copy/paste, then a smaller one that is "unique". I want to feel like i am truly out in the dangerous wild! Right now we are always a 30 second choco ride to the next crystal tele. I miss the days when MMOs were about adventure, rather then gear grinds and endgame.

I 100% agree and miss 1.0. :’(

[Krotoan]

well.. hello 6 year old thread. How YOU been?