Quote Originally Posted by Riardon View Post
The areas designed to be that huge in order to house and justify one of the key elements and one of the most advertised feature, Flying. That's the reason we got that huge areas. SE decided to go with the safe route in budget with FFXIV ARR after 1.0 huge flop. ... more stuff...
It seems like you're talking about 2.0 and changes made from 1.0. All good points/insights where 1.0 is concerned, but I'm not referring to 1.0 at all in my post. 1.0's pretty much a non-factor at this point.

I'm referring to the environment design in 3.0, and how it differs and is - in my opinion - a downgrade from that of 2.0's areas.