The cities in FFXIV are indeed a bit too closed in, they all feel like corridors for the most part while the cities in FFXI were my favorite things, all the nooks and crannies you can find, the back alleys in Bastok, The Dungeon in SanD'oria's Castle, the school of magic in Windurst, so many things to see in the cities, I wish the city-states in FFXIV were more fleshed out, they look nice but as i've said before, it feels more like running through a corridor than it does running through a city...