What do you think about the current copy/paste maps?

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I played ffxi, I seen youtube of ffxiv. I didn't notice the copy and pasted grapphics. I sat and watched severa "walk through" vids a jp player made. The zones I've seen look pretty diverse to me. They also did say ffxiv at launch = same size as ffxi @ launch. It feels smaller cuz of less zones.

The zones were different in ffxi due to them being in different regions which had different climets.

I've played ffxi from ps2 launch day till feb 28th 2011. ffxi had alot of "copy and pasted" to it. I think those complaining about copy and pasted stuff are just so bored and ran out of stuff to complain about. When they lifyten the NDA no one talk about the copy and pasted stuff, least that I've seen. You would think that is the first thing ppl noticed. I noticed it in DCUO in one hour if playing, and said something about it.

[Alleyia]

Of course every MMO uses Copy&Paste, otherwise it would be too much work to design an area. But it's really overused in FFXIV. It would already help if every camp wouldn't look the same, or every cave. The worst is Gridania, it doesn't give me the feeling of a forest.. more of a maze. (I didn't like that in FFXI either.. ooh Kazham Jungles I hated you!)

I'd love to see the world to be more alive and having more places to explore, I loved to do that in every mmo I've played so far. I also don't like the fact that you can level from 1-50 in the same area. You can't even looking forward to the next rank up because you know you'll grind the same leves in the same area you've been since rank 1 since it gives you the best sp.

[Vackashken]

I view it as pure laziness and totally devoid of inspired thought. The inherent blandness of the scenery (BECAUSE of copy and paste issues) coupled with the glaring aggro icon lots of mobs have as erased what pretty scenery was left.

The immersion factor in the game via landscapes is absolutely minimal

[Lissandra]

I actually don't mind it and am used to it by now. But I guess for future areas, perhaps the copy-paste method should be minimal at best...lest we want a whole wave of people (new and the old) to complain once more...

[Wynn]

This is probably my biggest disappointment with XIV. In XI, everything felt so unique. I know things were copied even there, but you barely noticed it. At least, I barely noticed it.

In XIV, the copy/paste is so overtly blatant, it is hard to ignore. The landscape all over is just so uninspired and boring. It just makes me think, "you guys had all this time to develop this great, new world and this is what you came out of development with?"

[Kilta_Firelotus]

This is probably my biggest disappointment with XIV. In XI, everything felt so unique. I know things were copied even there, but you barely noticed it. At least, I barely noticed it.

In XIV, the copy/paste is so overtly blatant, it is hard to ignore. The landscape all over is just so uninspired and boring. It just makes me think, "you guys had all this time to develop this great, new world and this is what you came out of development with?"

so why don't I see it then in the many youtube videos?

All i know is juston.tv made a blind hate rant about it. Someone saw this and fed into a global hystaria. Since I don't see it and think he was a ###### for saying it.

[Wynn]

so why don't I see it then in the many youtube videos?

All i know is juston.tv made a blind hate rant about it. Someone saw this and fed into a global hystaria. Since I don't see it and think he was a ###### for saying it.

A good deal of us in the alpha and beta of this game complained about the heavy copy/paste on the beta boards. And long before that dude went on his tirade. Just because someone publicly goes on a nerdrage fest about something doesn't mean that other people can't share the spirit of his opinion, albeit not his reaction.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Ummm.... these "camps" are just outposts where aethrytes are posts right?

I'm just making a point also no one complained about ffxi being copy and pasted, yet if you look it is there. I've also need worst copy and pasted in DCUO, yet no one does. Mostly because I was looking for it. I put too much focus on the copy and pasting rather then other stuff on the game.

With these camps. Ppl name camps for various reasons. Don't mean they are near a landmark. Drybone can be a tirbe or a tribal leader.

Remember guys most of this worlds back story is about how unsettled the area was and having various tribes untill they settled into ala mihgo then resettled in 4 other townships.

Like I stated you see it if you look for it.
every zone in ffxi has some form of copy and paste. If you look at them. Like canyon with the bones was similar the maze which is similar to the chasim. They use the same bones.

DCUO is alot worst then ffxi in the size of the world and the copy and pastedness. Yet no one in DCUO complains

[Zenaku]

the areas are made i don't think they would reskin this issue so stop making topic about it.

[gifthorse]

This is the topic everyone likes to complain about, however, in my opinion there are only a few places within thanalan and La Noscea where I feel like I'm wandering the same area.

Gridania is much worse and probably the only major culprit of this thing you call copy-paste.

One of the reasons the areas do seem so large and monotonous is because of the transit time between place to place when walking. At walking speed, the monotony is heightened because you are slowly passing every element by. If we were rushing by on chocobos to get to places, I don't think we would get the sense that the world was one repeating mess after another, in fact, I think we would enjoy the large expanses of land on which to roam.