Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
Have nothing to do with 2.0, the same did the airships also in 1.0
It's pretty clear from the Gridania opening cutscenes that they had intended on Airships being how players got to these locations at some point rather than the Aetherytes, but I sat and watched one of these locations for quite a while in V1.00 and never saw any airship arrive, so maybe it was something that was abandoned before being just a cutscene. I had expected a similar effort that the ferry had where you actually were on an airship for at least a minute with other players. The only place they brought this back was with the ship to Kugane. (The very same ship model from V1.0 no less, if you watch the cutscene while you're on it below deck.) Other versions of ships in the game never let you go below deck other than the one at the Wolves Den.

What I really want is a large Airship like FFVI's Blackjack where you have a top deck, a lounge/quarters, and an engine room. But all airships in the game are these tiny rowboat-sized things that clearly weren't designed to fly around the world. Give me my large airship that I can either pilot manually or set a course and then go below deck and do other things.

As for the space between La Noscea and Thanalan, I think the Ruby Sea area was rather disappointing in terms of scale, they even lampshaded the fact that you could swim across it. The space between La Noscea and Thanalan is about the same.