ah, good call, that's another annoyance. With prophecies, if you really got irritated with a mission, you could go around it. The only places you couldn't go without doing a mission were the fire islands and the desert/dragonwhatever. Every other place you could reach without doing a single mission if you wanted to. That was NICE. That meant you could bypass annoying/stupid missions if you wanted to and come back later.
Meh, I'm getting sick of the city, too. How about some jade seas or something.
Anyway, I'm underwhelmed. At least there's no monthly fee.