Quote Originally Posted by Callinon View Post
Exploration and finding hard-to-reach areas IS gameplay.
Exploring hard to reach areas for the sake of exploring those areas only one time JUST to unlock something probably shouldn't need to be unlocked in the first place is awful gameplay. You think once players have attuned to every Aether Current, they are going to ever explore those areas again? Of course not. They will *never* want to bother exploring a map AGAIN. This is something people are going to look back on very unfavorably.

This was obviously added at the very last minute. How else would you explain providing a key item that when used generates a line of text to the log window. Sounds like my old <pos> macro in FFXI, since there was no on screen map or coordinates display. Fortunately if it was added at the last minute, it will likely be replaced by the aforementioned compass or something similar.