There's been a lot of hilarious noise about the grass in the ARR (2.0) shots.

I want to address this right now, because I love the grass.

This is exactly the kind of grass that I want in an MMO. It hugs the ground and looks around in all different directions. I perceive the grass from every angle.

I believe Carl Sandburg said it best in the following poem:

Grass

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

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That's the end of the poem. I just want you all to let the grass be the grass. Let it be what it is.

The ARR grass is the grass grown from the corpses of a thousand NPCs. It's grown from the rotten flesh of the old realm, and we are reborn in its gentle difference.

It's not the same as grass that you'll find on the Wii, because it's not the grass of children but the grass of the fallen.

Contemplate the grass as you lounge in the beautiful new world in ARR. Tread upon it as you explore the realm reborn.

If you don't understand what I'm saying... then you hate kittens.