Quote Originally Posted by Basteala View Post
I'm a huge fan of obscure, abandoned places in MMOs like this.
One thing I miss from WildStar was that they'd build the entire continent maps out, even if chunks weren't used. Which meant you could find ways to get out of bounds and go exploring along inaccessible coasts and whatnot. And the map designers knew folks would do this, so they'd hide little stuff out there. Glitch-jump your way up a mountain and you could find a moonshiner's cabin. Or a little pleasant cottage along a river. Stuff like that. Friends and I spent a LOT of time in the original closed beta exploring areas we had no right being able to get to.

But for FFXIV... if you want some fun, go back and look at YouTube videos of unfinished/unreleased FFXIV 1.x content that the Speakers' Network used to put out as "Secrets of a Realm." The "dungeons" were actually just part of the world map in 1.x (thus why they had entrances explicitly in the world), which meant that some stuff which never got released was still there, and folks could load up the old zone maps and explore the unreleased "dungeon-y" areas. There's some interesting stuff there to wonder about "what would this have been?" Places like Bloodshore Hollow and the Ul'dah Mines.