[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]

[Azurymber]

almost every quest is the same. Run from city to city or out the middle of no where to talk to an npc for 2 lines or to kill 5 mobs you can 1shot.

But haven't you been reading these forums? Lots of players -love- this. They feel relaxed running for hours over repetitive terrain. Like that kira chick, she just runs around for fun

[Mack]

There is no way anyone can enjoy this. Its not even opinion any more, if someone actually says they enjoy the storyline quests (the actual gameplay portion of it, because the storyline itself isn't too bad) then they are just insane.

[Starlord]

There is no way anyone can enjoy this. Its not even opinion any more, if someone actually says they enjoy the storyline quests (the actual gameplay portion of it, because the storyline itself isn't too bad) then they are just insane.

Who are you to decide whats fun and entertaining; and what is not?

I am actually am enjoying myself, Yes the game needs a lot of work, but to say to not just me but everyone that loves/likes the game that they are insane or crazy.. I find that rather rude sir.

[Mack]

Who are you to decide whats fun and entertaining; and what is not?

I am actually am enjoying myself, Yes the game needs a lot of work, but to say to not just me but everyone that loves/likes the game that they are insane or crazy.. I find that rather rude sir.

[Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.] And why did you read what you wanted to read instead of what I actually wrote? kind of manipulative if you ask me. I said anyone who enjoys the gameplay portion of the quests, which basically have you running around for ages for a small cutscene at the end, is only kidding themselves. They are boring and repetitive from the first quest to the last one. [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.]

[Mack]

those are different zones. I meamt with in the same map. Like take thalan it self 1/2 is desert then the other 1/2 is frozen with ice. And for the record there is a gradual change when your about to zone to thalan from the black shroud/ twelveswood. there is a rock tunnel. Much like ffxi did.

In ffxi the would felt smallker because the regiona were built from smaler zones. Pretty much in ffxiv take 1 reagon and make it a map. So really we are seeing the ffxi like maps just of the region not the smaller zones with in said region.

Imo there also planty of wonders to see. Like 5 hangs, bearded rock etc. Still have no idea why 4 sisters is called 4 sisters though. I'v also been seeing these weird covered wells/ vent shafts. Kinda curious about those.

[Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.] ok, I'll give you an example of a transition region from XI...when you went from Latheine Plateau to Jugner forest the area leading to Jugner in Latheine got denser with trees...that is a transition region. From Thanalan to Shroud there is a tunnel lol..how is that a good transition region?

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Well I'm not alone in crying. If its up to you Kilta you would take the game the exact way it is now even if it meant you will be playing it alone. Sorry you can't make much of an argument and if you bothered to read what I replied to Starlord and managed to decipher the English language you would have known what I was talking about. Sorry you're in the minority here but this is a legitimate complaint and a lot of people agree with me. Go check out other topics for proof of this. And trust me I'm hardly complaining because if I was there is plenty more to complain about, I'm definitely not running out of stuff. I'm looking forward to the changes but maps have hardly been mentioned so forgive me if I want to know what they plan to do with them.

[Elexia]

There is no way anyone can enjoy this. Its not even opinion any more, if someone actually says they enjoy the storyline quests (the actual gameplay portion of it, because the storyline itself isn't too bad) then they are just insane.

Yeah, heaven forbid humans have different preferences for stuff. I dislike Indian food, does that make me insane because someone else may enjoy it?

[Mack]

Yeah, heaven forbid humans have different preferences for stuff. I dislike Indian food, does that make me insane because someone else may enjoy it?

How can you enjoy the story quests? I don't get it, it just has you running around for no good reason. One has you go to Gridania so they can tell you to go back to Dry Bone. One has you run to Gridania so it can have you run to Mor Dhona. If you like this, I hope you're in the minority because if this is what the future of video games is all about then it stinks.

[Elexia]

How can you enjoy the story quests? I don't get it, it just has you running around for no good reason. One has you go to Gridania so they can tell you to go back to Dry Bone. One has you run to Gridania so it can have you run to Mor Dhona. If you like this, I hope you're in the minority because if this is what the future of video games is all about then it stinks.

The future of MMOs are Massively Soloing Experience with zero hard work. Storyline quests are just that, storyline. They're not "go here and fight 820 mobs. Now go here and fight 9230 mobs. Now go here and slay 78 giant buffalos!" Some storyline will obviously have you fight, but that's not always the purpose of a story.

It's clear that the RPG genre is no more.

[Mack]

The future of MMOs are Massively Soloing Experience with zero hard work. Storyline quests are just that, storyline. They're not "go here and fight 820 mobs. Now go here and fight 9230 mobs. Now go here and slay 78 giant buffalos!" Some storyline will obviously have you fight, but that's not always the purpose of a story.

It's clear that the RPG genre is no more.

Wow ok yea lets put the blame elsewhere like we always do with FFXIV. Just because someone else does it *** doesn't mean FFXIV is excused. The storyline quests are boring, that was my argument, and I bet 3/4 of everyone here will agree with me. They should change them and make them better, perhaps have you run through a dungeon fighting a threat and then a mini boss at the end of the line, or maybe a temple and then hit you with a cutscene. FFXI's storyline was a lot more exciting and a lot less running around. [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.]

EDIT: and if the purpose of that part of said story is NOT to fight, then don't make me run to Mor Dhona for crap all or to the middle of Thanalan for a couple sentences. After the one near drybone where you have to settle down the beastmen, my NPC mate says he'll meet me in Gridania and teleports off...why did he not take me with him for example? all the storyline quests are boring time sinks. If we're looking at this from an FF standpoint, not once have I been this bored playing a Final Fantasy game.