Zones ... hmmm

[Wilan]

i have a feeling the blue dots wont make it to final version, no one likes them

Any source on that? I've read nothing but prays about the zone lines actually.
They are subtle, too. If you pay attention to the videos, they won't appear on your screen until you go near them, alerting you that you are nearing a zone.
Honestly I see no reason to take them off; if anything, a toggle option would be okay, but they are so useful AND subtle that I really don't see any need for it.

[syntaxlies]

Any source on that? I've read nothing but prays about the zone lines actually.
They are subtle, too. If you pay attention to the videos, they won't appear on your screen until you go near them, alerting you that you are nearing a zone.
Honestly I see no reason to take them off; if anything, a toggle option would be okay, but they are so useful AND subtle that I really don't see any need for it.

ok maybe more people like them then i thought, as for me i really don't care.

[Preypacer]

Any source on that? I've read nothing but prays about the zone lines actually.
They are subtle, too. If you pay attention to the videos, they won't appear on your screen until you go near them, alerting you that you are nearing a zone.
Honestly I see no reason to take them off; if anything, a toggle option would be okay, but they are so useful AND subtle that I really don't see any need for it.

Those lines somehow are "comfortable" to me lol. Not that they "fit in perfect" or anything... I think it's a nostalgic thing from FFXII or something. I have no problem with them at all.

As for the topic, I love that they've gone to smaller but more varied zones. One of the things I love in other games (and in FFXI - uh oh, I've done gone and said it...) was that (for me anyway) having individual zones like that made them more memorable to me. The world map became a kind of "jigsaw puzzle" and I'd remember which piece (zone) connected to which. Then, within each zone, you had some kind of feature or major landmark that made navigation very easy once you learned its layout. The layout helped me always maintain a good sense of the geography of the continent and my position relative to other areas, etc.

In FFXI you could blind-fold me put me in the middle of a zone (most of them anyway) and then, upon un-blindfolding me, I'd be able to tell you in a second what zone I was in, what area of that zone I was in and which way I had to go to get somewhere in particular. Only one that wasn't always so easy for me was the more corridor-heavy areas like the jungles or the mire and such out in Aht Urghan.

In EQ2 it was the same thing.

In larger, more seamless worlds, I have a much harder time doing any of that.