[dev] Please make future maps more varried...........................................

[Mack]

yes, please. I was running around Thanalan and the only point I saw for the maps being so large is so leve camps are far apart...so lame. At least add temples or areas of interest with any significance to them. Even so however, the maps are boring and dull, why do the regions have to be so big? if you guys were going with seamless you should have studied it more before deciding to half way it. Did you guys forget how to make maps? did you forget what FFXI was like? or maybe its because you guys were so out of touch with your fans 'til recently that you had no idea what we actually liked and what we didn't.

Please change the maps that we have now (and more than a few quest hubs too) and/or make future zones smaller and/or more varied in design...as in way more varied, as in different texture altogether. And for the love of god make a transition region between Thanalan and the Shroud, and then burn the shroud to the ground and make it wide open.

It took you guys 3 tries and we don't even know if you're going to get the battle system right still. I don't understand how this is even possible? 3 freakin tries! I know it doesn't look like you're considering changing the maps but please give us more zones and make them useful...these zones suck, there is nothing there, they aren't charming, the music that overlays them sucks. Even FFXII had funner exploration in it, what the hell where you guys thinking?

I'm excited for content as much as the next person and the new battle system but there's a lot more that this game needs. Maps aside too, my NPC linkpearl just glowed, I was asked to go to Ashcrown Consortium (in Gridania) so I did, why??? because they wanted to tell me to go to Mor Dhona...literally, I was sent packing to Gridania for 2 sentences...why couldn't they ask me over the pearl for instance?? oh right, I get it, because you guys think that boring time sinks = good game design and yes I bolded this part because its #@#!in annoying. Fix it please. I suggest you look at things you did right in FFXI and improve on them, because if you have any hope of FFXIV being a success its because of ex-XI players and current XI players who might wanna make the switch.

[SIZE="5"]To the community reps, can you guys please get an answer as to what the devs are planning to do with the maps we currently have, aside from adding quest hubs, if anything?[/SIZE]