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

[Kilta_Firelotus]

then put your money where yoyr mouth is.
What is your suggestion to "fix" is. I've been reading up this game since before beta and seen beta leaked vid, it never came up. If it was an issue someone would have shown ppl HOW it looks copy and pasted not " what the ####, what is up wuth these ##### area. They sare so ##### boring." aks the justin.tv tirared in a nutshell.

I'm a long time gamer and I do notice bad games and such stuff. Not so sound odd but all I do is play games in my free time. Where I live is a empty town. And tv is boring. I played a game called two worlds. That game all around was bad. And the only game I've play that was really bad.

I'm a big mmo gamer also. I've play Aion which has more copy and pasting then ffxiv does, if you look at it. Yet no one made mention of it. DCUO is also got worst copy and pasting. Yet no one complains.

So a game with not as much copy and pasting as either of those two games. Yet thats ALL ppl complain about.

[Nephera]

I think it was a really bad thing they they are not going to be able to fix entirely without a lot of effort.

But a pretty decent bandaid would just be adding stuff... you can probably shoehorn more hamlets in there. There's a couple of shrine/temple things littered around coerthas, maybe give those a little more decoration, tell a story with the terrain.

[Nephera]

then put your money where yoyr mouth is.
What is your suggestion to "fix" is. I've been reading up this game since before beta and seen beta leaked vid, it never came up. If it was an issue someone would have shown ppl HOW it looks copy and pasted not " what the ####, what is up wuth these ##### area. They sare so ##### boring." aks the justin.tv tirared in a nutshell.

I'm a long time gamer and I do notice bad games and such stuff. Not so sound odd but all I do is play games in my free time. Where I live is a empty town. And tv is boring. I played a game called two worlds. That game all around was bad. And the only game I've play that was really bad.

I'm a big mmo gamer also. I've play Aion which has more copy and pasting then ffxiv does, if you look at it. Yet no one made mention of it. DCUO is also got worst copy and pasting. Yet no one complains.

So a game with not as much copy and pasting as either of those two games. Yet thats ALL ppl complain about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9nLBfH44c

[Moth]

I think that just as much love and detail went into creating the zones as it was in XI :c I think simply because the zones are SOOOOO BIG, it feels copy/pasted because they had to cover so much land. You have to believe that if the zones were the same size as they were in XI and if there were more of them then no one would be complaining at all. With new expansions and updates, i am positive new zones will come along with it. Then the world will feel much better.. maybe even too big.

[kurokawa]

The mini map means that I don't take much notice of the scenery. That's a shame.

We should either have to quest a map or open it up as we discover new areas. That way we might take more notice of our surroundings.

I think there needs to be huge changes to the environment as you near the next zone. Moving from a forest to the grand canyon in one load screen just seems stupid.

I'd love to hear direct from the dev team to see if it's actually possible to make these changes, otherwise there's not much point talking about it?

[Madrox]

I'd love to hear direct from the dev team to see if it's actually possible to make these changes, otherwise there's not much point talking about it?

Agreed on this

[Gath]

Finding your way through the map is like a priest finding a way into a boys woohoo parts. It's not fun because you cant use anything else at the moment.

Change it and we ill be happy to go to the woohoo area.

[Statham]

It is true that the copy / past is obvious and lack of real innovation. This may seem to some a botched job. For gridania is a bit abused the composition of the map is a maze ... Others spend more. It's FFXIV and not a FFXI-2!

[Zouga]

Copy/paste is common in all games to some degree, its how its disguised that counts. I'd like to see either more small zones with more variety like FFXI or better yet stick with the "seemless" zone changes but make them really seemless and add some variation and some destinations! I've only played a couple of mmos, but I can say that LOTRO has epic zones which for the most part are truely seemless (except entering buildings which have two doors with a portal behind the first lol).

In LOTRO you can wander around for hours crossing back and forward through a myriad of environmentally distinct areas (grasslands, forest, desert, snowy mountains, lakes, swamps, towns, villages, caves etc...) doing quests, collecting stuff, killing stuff, just walking, and never hit a black screen or a zone. I'm not saying there are no zones in LOTRO cause there are, they are just few and far between and the stuff in the middle is awesome. There are reasons to go places; quests in towns or in the wilderness, inn's halfway between cities, villages that offer something that main towns don't, a certain place in the middle of nowhere is great for collecting a certain material, monsters at a particular level, game lore/storyline information etc, etc, etc... In terms of environment, best game I've ever played. Not so much with the social side of things though, FFXI was and at this rate, will be, the best all round mmo/game I've ever played.

Turbine did a brilliant job on the environment in LOTRO and I think that Square did a great job on FFXI. The FFXIV environment is lacking seriously in everything I ranted on about above and its plain disappointing and boring. It was cool for the first few weeks then it just feels like PVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Sorry Square this is ment to be constructive critisism. Can we please have much more visual variation in each zone and possibly a bit less copy/paste or a bit better hidden? destinations outside of cities would be nice to (i.e. Selbina in FFXI was a destination because you got subjob there or went to dunes to level after 10 or to catch ferry). As a "next gen" mmo its not much to ask, Thank you.

[Zouga]

Sorry its long... I didnt see til just then lol