The amount of loading screens in this game is kind of absurd.

[homunyan]

I'm not one of those people who insists the game needs to be one seamless world (seamless worlds are nice but hardly essential) but the number of small zones and instances in this game is greater than anything I've ever seen with the exception of a small number of handheld games like Phantasy Star Zero on the Nintendo DS.

Again, I'm not demanding the entire or even each region by one big seamless zone but loading screens while moving around different parts of the same city? In dungeons? Amdapor Keep, Crystal Tower, Haukke Manor and Pharos Sirius, to name a few are all cut up into three distinct zones abruptly separated by loading screens, three! There are games from 10+ years ago that were at least able to keep a single dungeon or city as its own zone, and it's not like any of these places are unusually large.

This isn't about not being "high tech" or "modern" enough, its about a basic sense of place. It's hard to feel a real sense of place when you have to click an orb or walk over a blue line multiple times to be teleported to a separate, discrete zone just over the course of one 45-minute dungeon.


Am I alone, here or does this feel kind of absurd to anyone else?

[Arcaloid]

It doesn't surprise me since most japanese games I've played are like this.

[Zaiken]

PS3 Limitation.

[Felis]

PS3 Limitation.

Even during 1.0, with no PS3, dungeons were seperated in 2 or 3 zones (or at least 2 or 3 teleporters who gave the players loading screens)

[MikoteAstra]

I fully agree with the OP !

Come on the city districts are separate and you have to load.....ive never been in a MMO where such things exists!

[Holyhunter]

I fully agree with the OP !

Come on the city districts are separate and you have to load.....ive never been in a MMO where such things exists!

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[Warlyx]

eq2 has loading zones btw city zones D: , and in vanilla there were like 8 zones in each city >< each name on the map was a "zone" (loading included) ,now there are only 4 zones ..., i remember playing with 500 mb of ram...5min loading times werent fun ,1h to grab and hand quests around the city (that i avoided like the plague back then :P) , FFXIV has loading zones but takes what 2s?

[Phe]

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funny that you quote FFXI and relating to the cities you are partially right, but the cities were much bigger.
and in FFXI there were several big dungeons not split into zones and the game was also on console.

[Squishton]

Sure no loading times would be great, but the loading times I've experienced have never really been long enough for me to care.

[McStagger]

I'm not one of those people who insists the game needs to be one seamless world (seamless worlds are nice but hardly essential) but the number of small zones and instances in this game is greater than anything I've ever seen with the exception of a small number of handheld games like Phantasy Star Zero on the Nintendo DS.

Again, I'm not demanding the entire or even each region by one big seamless zone but loading screens while moving around different parts of the same city? In dungeons? Amdapor Keep, Crystal Tower, Haukke Manor and Pharos Sirius, to name a few are all cut up into three distinct zones abruptly separated by loading screens, three! There are games from 10+ years ago that were at least able to keep a single dungeon or city as its own zone, and it's not like any of these places are unusually large.

This isn't about not being "high tech" or "modern" enough, its about a basic sense of place. It's hard to feel a real sense of place when you have to click an orb or walk over a blue line multiple times to be teleported to a separate, discrete zone just over the course of one 45-minute dungeon.


Am I alone, here or does this feel kind of absurd to anyone else?

How many MMOS have you played on PS3 give you access to larger chunks of land that are as detailed as FFXIV, or did you forget that this is a cross platform game and cannot be made only to the strengths of PC gamers?