Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Oh great, another "the areas aren't gigantic enough" thread.

For ARR, they opted for smaller, more-well-crafted areas instead of having giant areas that required lots of reuse of textures and terrain chunks to make ("copy-pasta"). There's no point in having a giant area when you don't have enough assets and content to fill it with.
I didn't even play 1.0, but from what I've seen in screenshots and videos, I want those areas. ARR areas are NOT well crafted. They're miserable, boring, lifeless, and bland. There's no sense of adventure. Hop on your chocobo and get to ANYWHERE you want in a zone in 2 minutes or less. That's not an adventure.

Going back to FFXI. Some of my fondest memories of FFXI was just getting lost in Xarcabard for hours. That can never happen in ARR, and I hate it. I want it to be possible to get lost. I want there to be a snowstorm so intense that it's hard to see where I'm going.