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

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.