You mean to tell me that you all used maps while exploring Eorzea the first time through? Weird.

I ran around and looked at things.

Coerthas West is the best area for that -- lots of things to look at, lots of places to fall down go boom, lots of extremely misleading information if you tried to follow a Map in the first place.

This change rates a "meh" ... as does any mention of "the good old days" (usually prefaced by "I've been playing a Final Fantasy MMO for 10 years").

As it is, I don't remember any area I needed to go where the map suddenly didn't provide me with a direction despite the lack of details.