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.