OMG please remove some of the aetherytes, the world feels tiny

[Dark-Saviour]

As for the comments of it just being an issue of there not being enough to do in the world...

While I do agree that the lack of people doing open-world content is disheartening, having everyone flood the surface would actually make the original problem worse. At that point the world not only feels tiny and constrained, but instead is now tiny, constrained, and crowded.

If you will excuse me, I'm going to be purposely obtuse for a moment. I disagree. The world is, in fact, quite enormous. The Eorzea that we inhabit is a small portion of a small island in a small archipelago, situated in a moderately sized continent on an earth sized planet. If anything, the relatively confined nature of the currently accessible portion of the world only goes to further illustrate how massive the world actually is. The Garlean Empire, by all accounts, spans 2 to 4 times again as much space, and is far from holding the entire world. A few expansions down the road, and I doubt you will be able to say the world is too small.

Considering the scale of Eorzea compared to the rest of the world from the maps we've seen, yes... what we're seeing does make the world seem tiny (IMO at least). Had it actually been the case that we really just got a tiny patch of the entire world (at the proper scale), I'd be more open to it, but the supposed size of the landmass we do have access to needs far more room to work properly.
Villages less than a minute jaunt from one another with half a dozen houses each does not a compelling world make. :-\

[ShinkuTachi]

A few expansions down the road, and I doubt you will be able to say the world is too small.

I think that's the point people miss when it comes to a MMO. These games aren't supposed to be complete games on release, like an 8 hour action game or a 200 hour RPG. These are games that evolve, expand, and grow over a very long period of time, like more than a decade. You have to give these sorts of things time.

Anyone who bought this game expecting Pre-Zilart~Seekers or Vanilla~Mists level of content, this early on, is a damned fool.

[Hulan]

You know, that's quite interesting. After you mentioned that, I went and did some digging, and the only world view we have to date shows a distinctly different view from what I an sure I recall hearing about Eorzea being part of a larger archipelago. That image displayed Eorzea as somewhere between the size of North America or Africa, so we can assume it makes up somewhere between 1/5 and 1/8 of the land mass. On the other hand, that image was taken from an early trailer to ARR, and could be inaccurate (though I can't recall this particular team messing something like that up before).

[Gextiv]

OP should use less aetherytes, then. Also, imo, there's nothing wrong in adding flying mounts because no WORLD PVP takes place in Eorzea.

[sydh]

I just want larger zones. Ones even bigger than 1.0 preferably.

[RakaMaimhov]

I just want larger zones. Ones even bigger than 1.0 preferably.

I can't disagree with you

[PixelPirate]

If you guys wanna see the world level Fishing, Botany, and Mining... Complete all of the logs and then come back and talk about how small it is.

[Nicobo]

...What is your opinion on the removal of some aetherytes in order to make us explore, and get more use out of our mounts? Thanks in advance

I object the caption ^^;
I think above reason is not valid, you need to explore and check the aetherytes to activate it, and in most cases you will ride on the mounts after teleport. I recall previously players only complained teleport too expansive, maybe now the cost is too low bcoz everyone is richer than before ^^;

[melflomil]

Lower la noscea Morbory Docks is the worst place ever. The map is so big and the crystal isn't in the middle it at the southern if the map. I hate that place so much.

[Pantz]

I can't recall the last time I entered the next zone on foot/mount instead of teleporting...