New area speculation for 1st expansion

[Naunet]

I'm thinking something like...
First expansion: Ishgard + rest of Coerthas - Help the fight against the Dravanian Horde and the reappearance of the Coerthas Primals.
Second expansion: Sharlayan + Dravania - Help Ishgard end the Dravanian Horde attacks once and for all, freeing them up to helping with the Empire, and restore Sharlayan to its former glory.
Third expansion: Ala Mhigo + Gyr Abania - With Ishgard and Sharlayan in the Eorzean Alliance, we finally will have the firepower to take back Ala Mhigo.

Those would be some seriously tiny "expansions". When I think expansion, I think "entire continent's worth of new stuff".

[Tupsi]

Those would be some seriously tiny "expansions". When I think expansion, I think "entire continent's worth of new stuff".

Yeah, but people would complain because they think they're copying FFXI which introduced new jobs, new lands, tons of new nooks and crannies to explore, some even entire new continents or "filler" of places that are on the map but could never get to. So you're not wrong, but this community has an interesting affinity for complaining if something comes even close to mimicking FFXI or other MMOs aside the 'standard.'

Considering Yoshi basically says the 'next version', e.g 3.0, 4.0 and so on would be the 'expansion', it's more of a glorified update than expansion.

[Naunet]

Yeah, but people would complain because they think they're copying FFXI

Well, what you described isn't exactly unique to XI. I have a hard time imagining people complaining about it.

[EdwinLi]

Those would be some seriously tiny "expansions". When I think expansion, I think "entire continent's worth of new stuff".

Yep that quite tiny for something called "Expansion".

1 city state and a new areas is about the size of 2 Major Update for this game

Expansions are more like something bigger worthy of filling about 8 major update in 1 go.

[jomoru]

Those would be some seriously tiny "expansions". When I think expansion, I think "entire continent's worth of new stuff".

I'd rather they finish up the continent around Eorzea(Eorzea is more like Greece than say Europe) rather than adding a whole new continent THEN coming back to the areas nearby in like 5 years like certain other games.

[Phe]

*Ishgard and the rest of Coerthas.

Yea might be cool to finally get the 80% of Coerthas back that has been existing in 1.x already...

[AdvancedWind]

Yea might be cool to finally get the 80% of Coerthas back that has been existing in 1.x already...

You mean that huge mass of nothing that had absolutely nothing? I don't really miss it.

[Tupsi]

You mean that huge mass of nothing that had absolutely nothing? I don't really miss it.

Kind of like Coerthas now that has absolutely no use outside a few FATEs and trash quests other than to be an obligatory snow area? It was a huge mass but it served purpose since a lot of areas were actually exp camps (so there wasn't 'mass of nothing') and considering the redesign of the land it wouldn't have been the exact same and you know that.

Hell even Behemoth's Dominion serves no purpose 99% of the time. As for Castrums, as per the..uh..."story". we went in and pretty much toppled them so they won't ever really change em (too much work for the bare minimum approach to ARR they've taken) but they won't ever serve a purpose since one of them holds the entrance to Binding Coil, which could have been a pretty awesome open world dungeon.

[Rufalus]

Ishgard is almost certainly going to open in the first expansion, I think the devs even mentioned that before. Beyond that I hope to one day step foot into the magitek empire of garlemald.

[Bluevann]

Pretty sure Yoshi said the first expansion will be about Ishgard, and that the city will be accessible with it.