Quote Originally Posted by Bita View Post
You played at Japanese launch? i played at ps2 launch and continued for 5 years. I noticed some copy/paste in ffxi but was never disappointed with it because of the incredible environment that ffxiv lacks
Same with Bita here, started FFXI with my wife (GF at that time) on PC launch (JP version) and played for 6 years, I know XI had lots of copy paste but they did a good job and tried to make it harder to catch by just adding little more changes to those areas, FFXIV can do the same and I don't mind as much but they reused waaay too much. I know it's cost saving method, I made my own games before so I know how this works + memory usage on copies areas are a lot less, I do understand also, so I'm not complaining about them copy/pasting but since each zone is so huge they used the same areas too much in my opinion.

And don't say if you didn't see the map someone made from 2CH or the video showing copy/paste is reason people found about this, if you have your eye's opened and simply look at the map you can tell it's exact same... Try go to 5-8 caves in Limsa map and by then you already know it's going to be dead end. Same with caves in Morduna.. I like to adventure around, like in FFXI I would run to different parts of Jugner being chased by the tiger at low level ending up in a place full of mushrooms and go wow! It's the small stuff this game is lacking in some of the maps.

I noticed in the cities if you look carefully the designers put a lot work in details on the building structures and I'm impressed by that but outside maps... not impressed as much.