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

I play WoW on top of ARR and personally I enjoy ARR more environment wise. Alot of the big space in WoW to me feels bleh and forcing us to move from the bottom all the way to the top to complete some quests is annoying, I mean hey if its a beautiful area then no problem, but what if you hate the area and it only makes it worse? In AAR even if the areas are broken up each feels beautiful and alive, the world does not feel dead. This is all personal opinion of course, I wouldnt care if we got bigger areas, I just do not care that they are small now. PS3 player by the way.

That's weird, because I thought WoW's aethetic design of the geography was ussually top notch. Places like Desolace and Burning Steppes and the Hellfire Peninsula need to go die in a fire, though.
It's all a matter of having clever level designers and a small ammount of inspiration.

On the matter of travel times, that could be fixed by making mounts faster. Or by having tiered mounts (like a bunch of other MMOs do). Or by making mounts have multiple velocities that get unlocked with levelling or something. Possibilities are endless! It's all a matter of having a clever game designer.

A lot of area's could surely use a lot of expanding. Just looking out over the coastline in the Costa Del Sol. So many amazing and breathtaking places we cant travel to now because of the "Zone" setup, instead of the previous "What you see, you can go to" setup :/ It's becomming a little frustrating.

This is something that has bothered me a bit while exploring FFXIV, the lack of a sense of exploration, the zones are too confined, too many corridors or analogs to corridors, all those secret nooks and crannies you usually find in mmo's are strangely absent. I play The Secret world as well as this, and let me tell you, that game does really promote investigating your environment for random quests and items that you usually dont find in the more traveled areas. I miss that in this game.

Originally Posted by ispano

Also, What we have for Coerthas is only the eastern half.

You mean the northern-central one sixth. Gwyr-Aen with the Lover's mark and Crooked Fork in the northeast, Owl's Nest and Glory in the southeast, Riversmeet in the west and Twinpools in the northwest, as well as the Central Lowlands with Ever Lakes, which separated Central Highlands and Mor Dhona, but has just vanished, leaving the border to Mor Dhona in the Central Highlands... All of that is still missing. It makes no sense that Mor Dhona moved north several malms and that central lowlands disappeared...