Zones ... hmmm

[Niqote]

Get up out of bed, zone out of Inn.
Want to hear shouts on the main strip of Ul'dah? Move to that zone (albeit invisible it is still a zone)
Get onto Chocobo from city? Zone.
Get on Ferry or Airship? Zone.
Walk from Thanalan to black shroud. Zone

... No I do not mind zoning in 2.0, if its easier on the development team; all the better.

[Quesse]

Well they said the reason all the areas in a zone looked the same and why there tons of reused textures was because they made the game as zoneless as possible. But then people complained about the same looking zones so they said ok, we'll make the zones look unique but you'll have to 'move' between them with a loading screen.

Now people complain again. nice.

[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.

[Zezlar]

I actually like the blue dots.

[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.

[Warlock]

So Zoning= 2-5 secs of waiting... not sure what the issue is here. Were getting a better "Unique" world to look at "because" of zones.

Its not even that long of a wait..

[Starlord]

Its not even that long of a wait..

I know.. but there are some people that are... Extremely impatient (for whatever reason :P). I take 2-5 Seconds to load a zone than 2-5 seconds to get to each box I try to open up.

[Heavens]

The stress will be lower on the server this way. It also promotes scalability and modularity.

I helped.

[AlexNiculaie]

I actually like the blue dots.

Same here. I thought it a nice nod to XII.

[Holy_Dragoon]

I much prefer the new way of zoning, we can now have very different environments thanks to it.