I was just looking at the alpha pics of FFXIV 1.0 and remembering how I used to look at those and think "OMG if that is how the starting areas look I can't WAIT to see what awesome terrain they have in store for us." That was , of course, when I was thinking it would be as geographically rich as FFXI. I progressed and progressed and progressed and it just never happened! It was more of the same same same same SAME!