Thread: Maps redesing for 2.0... cities too?!

Originally Posted by WinnipegJet

I'm from Grid and I don't really like it. Remake ploz.

Parody of whiny entitlement or actual whiny entitlement? Poe's Law?

I, for one, LIKED Windurst's design. Once it became functional to be there (shared auction house, region/maw teleports) I never left.

I don't know what it is about other people, but I prefer to have a city I can actually explore, not take 3 seconds to walk to one section, take 2 to get to the other, and spend absolutely no travel time at all. I think expecting that is asking a bit too much of Square Enix and really suffocates any room at all for creative design.

I am appreciative that they're taking consideration for some of the more bothersome areas, but I'm glad that I'll still recognize the city I've spent time in when 2.0 rolls around.

I was looking forward to city redesigns

I think the NPC distribution could be better. Some areas in Gridania just feel lifeless. And I usually like Gridania's atmosphere. But serene and empty don't equal each other.

I don't care much since ...

Ishgard > all other cities, redesigned or not

Like other have said, they didn't say we wouldn't get some changes, just nothing like the overhauls we are getting for the outside zones. I mean the old zones are more or less getting changes from the ground up with new elements and in some cases completely changed structure (North Black Shroud becoming a normal forest with some open fields instead of the labyrinth it is now). We already know new structures are coming to some of the cities due to the art work (The Floating Coloseum on the outskirts of Limsa being one of them). My guess is they will tweak some of the layouts of the city to accommodate new content and new dynamics but the general look of the city will remain fairly unchanged. For instance they could open up parts of Gridania by demolishing some terrain, add new buildings and make it possible to go inside pre-existing buildings, but that doesn't mean they destroy the city and build a new one like they more or less are for the out door areas.