That's pretty much the fate of all MMOs. Can't be helped. More areas are added, there's less and less reason to go back to old ones. In this case it's far worse because there's nothing of value in the open world, no rare drops, no out of the way packs of mobs that are useful to farm, no special anythings anywhere. We don't even have the benefit of alts of all levels swarming around, since you don't need any(nightmare mode alts for more crafting specializations aside) due to the job system the game uses, or tiered PvP that twinks would hold a specific level for.

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This thread recalls me the past debate(s) about the maps soooo smaaaall and need be biiiiiigger because people felt "Claustrophobic". Cannot make everyone happy, isn't it.
That probably wouldn't be an issue if they removed hard zoning and made the world contiguous.