Thread: What are the chances of ever getting similar sized massive zones/maps that 1.0 had?

You can't even call ARR a world, lol. (even though I love it) It's just a bunch of tiny rooms that look like cardboard stage sets. I would take the copy paste world of 1.0 back, it was far more engaging. Either way, it's still a great game. ARR and 1.0 both have a lot to offer, but you can't have everything.

Originally Posted by TohruHonda

You can't even call ARR a world, lol. (even though I love it) It's just a bunch of tiny rooms that look like cardboard stage sets. I would take the copy paste world of 1.0 back, it was far more engaging. Either way, it's still a great game. ARR and 1.0 both have a lot to offer, but you can't have everything.

I disagree. You can have everything, its called WoW. Alas it does not have that FF skin on it, so you may be right in that respect (you can't have everything). But really, World of Warcraft does everything this game does but better and has more content, AND the world is seamless and HUGE and completely OPEN. Disregarding the FF skin, why would anyone pay $15 a month for an inferior product?

Originally Posted by Poyozo

I disagree. You can have everything, its called WoW. Alas it does not have that FF skin on it, so you may be right in that respect (you can't have everything). But really, World of Warcraft does everything this game does but better and has more content, AND the world is seamless and HUGE and completely OPEN. Disregarding the FF skin, why would anyone pay $15 a month for an inferior product?

Because they started selling 90s. That's why I quit. I'm quitting this too, though. Lacking content... small world... no PvP. It's just not worth playing atm.

they are trying to cater to a larger audience than just final fantasy die hards.

with zones being retrofitted into the new game engine, some effects could be more of a bottleneck onto the servers than others. simple explanation can be said about odin and behemoth pre 2.0 not loading as a priority over PC players data.
its all about coding.

and as a person who came from Aion after playing FFXI for 8 years, i know what the effects of such over expansive worlds with useless data would cause. Making the zones larger than required could increase load times and lag on many players all around. the specs now are lower than 1.0 to run the game, but thats because of new game engine and simplified visual effects and then getting rid of useless code (as i put it).
by simplifying these very things it allows them to centralize and expand exhisting elements into new ways.
instances are there to keep from over crowding in EXP areas like what happend in FFXI even for the merit parties. This also aloud CPU load to be off loaded to a seperate server to drop lag for the users, but also offer the whole experience instead of running around aimlessly looking for a mob spawn.

Originally Posted by Naraz

and as a person who came from Aion after playing FFXI for 8 years, i know what the effects of such over expansive worlds with useless data would cause.

Aion is actually a pretty terrible example. With a few exceptions, its zones are not as bad as XIV's, but they do have the tell-tale "tunneling" of many eastern MMOs, and the game itself is horribly optimized. I wouldn't use Aion as a standard of what can be done with large, open, detailed zones.

wish it took longer to lvl in this game, and i would love to have experienced 1.0 for myself but i believe this whole heartily that FFXIV 1.0 was rushed to release before the product was finished, and it cost many SE employees their jobs.

and i wish i could have posted that all in 1 post

As long as they support PS3, and they will probably do it till the end of the game, never.