Quote Originally Posted by Larirawiel View Post
Seriously, Blizzard solved this problem already in 2004. You had loading screens when you made a continent switch or when you entered an instanced area. But those situations were very rare. In FF14, which is younger than WoW vanilla you have loading screens everywhere. And now we have 2021. I cannot understand that it is still in this game.


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It takes my PC longer to load between covenant zones or in a WoW HS than it does FFXIV to load a new zone when I teleport.

FFXIV zones are supposed to be a bit of travel between them- it's not suddenly you're in a forest, suddenly you're in the tundra thing- those load screens represent a bit of travel between biomes.

I'm not sure when loading a new zone takes under 5 seconds nowadays how it's an issue to have the split... and if the load takes longer for you due to your PC, it'd take longer even if they made them 'seamless', it'd just be masked in a different way.