Why is each town so boring?

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Honestly I like all the towns of this game better than the ones from FFXI. FFXI towns were always plain and boring to me although they did have some character. Yet they was pointless to be that big in FFXI because most of that area wasn't used and in FFXIV you have just as many place you can go into and more stuff will be added in a smaller area and gives the feeling of being more a live at least to me. Yet the LL and Grid atm are ghost towns so naturally they feel kind of dead but with the Grand Companies thing coming out I would think that will bring the towns back to life to some degree. I am freaking tired of Uldah and want to go back home to LL!

[Morticous]

I must say, i didn't even think about it until i got board, ha. Don't get me wrong, the towns are cool, i just feel like they stuffed what appears to be a huge city into a tiny space. but, maybe that will change when they open up the extra areas.

[Pulseczar]

I find them a lot easier to get around in than FF 11. I think the cities need more life. Have the npcs doing something (minus the guild npcs—their animations are fantastic)—like that adorable Lalafell in Ul'dah that is juggling and accidentally drops them.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

ima be too busy to care what the towns look like cuz my lalafell is gonna be super cute and gonna make her craft just for her to look cute >
yes i'm evil to se da cuteness

[Lissandra]

ima be too busy to care what the towns look like cuz my lalafell is gonna be super cute and gonna make her craft just for her to look cute >
yes i'm evil to se da cuteness

You should care. :P Some areas in the towns have pretty scenic sites - especially Gridania.

[gifthorse]

FFXI had towns with multiple zones and A LOT more to see, these towns are pretty small.... where does everyone live? XD

Sorry but you have obviously not bothered to search the zones at all.

[TonyMontana]

You shouldnt really compare FFXIV in april 2011 to FFXI at release in 2003 or 2002 whenever it came out. For 1 this is SEs 2nd MMO they should have learned something from the first. Also what was acceptable in 2002 or 2003 isnt acceptable now. and last but not least FFXIV released in sept of 2010, we are roughly 7 months into retail this isnt exactly a new release anymore.

[Sephr]

You shouldnt really compare FFXIV in april 2011 to FFXI at release in 2003 or 2002 whenever it came out. For 1 this is SEs 2nd MMO they should have learned something from the first. Also what was acceptable in 2002 or 2003 isnt acceptable now. and last but not least FFXIV released in sept of 2010, we are roughly 7 months into retail this isnt exactly a new release anymore.

Whilst that's a perfectly good arguement for many areas of the game, i'd avoid mindlessly regurgitating it where it doesn't apply. Most people here are agreeing that the cities are good enough (they're far more interesting than FFXI's anyway, Sand'oria and Bastok were boring as hell to look at).

Size isn't everything anyway, not that it matters because the only XI city that was bigger was Windurst, and it sucked ass because of it (to the point they had to add NPCs to teleport you to different bits of the city, if that doesnt smack of poor design I don't know what does.)

[Carmillia]

Size isn't everything anyway

'That's what she said' XD

[Sasse]

FFXI's JP release was sometime in 2001, IIRC.