the earth is round.

[Rengori]

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[Tama2]

Maybe the map is just wrong. Maybe the north pole is the very middle of the map.

[Old Manus]

Everyone knows that the earth is a cube.

Yeah, duh.

Wasn't there a globe world map on FF8?
And:

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[Mercen-X]

Maybe the north pole is in the middle of the map, and the south along the bottom and top edges.

Precisely. The North and South poles are perfectly equidistant from each other whichever route is taken to reach either pole. Hence them being called "Polar Opposites." This means, to be equidistant in the game map, the positioning of the poles must be as quoted.

However, because the map does not rotate in any direction during travel, we could just as easily assume that one of the poles is located on the left/right edges of the map. Thus, we're reliant on the position of the map to establish this sense of direction. Left = west, right = east, up = north, down = south.

And both of these paragraphs were entirely meaningless as I'm sure they've added naught to the topic.

[edczxcvbnm]

Having it be that way would just be a major gameplay inconvienence.

[Rengori]

Besides, it's Final FANTASY.

[DJZen]

I don't really recall anyone ever mentioning both poles in any RPG... I know that FFVII had the "knowlespole" XD, and that Xenogears had a South Pole, but other than that... This means MecaKane's theory holds some credibility.

That and it's just a video game.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The World Is Square.

[SeeDRankLou]

In FFVIII, you could toggle between map options. You could have no map, a flat map, or....a spherical map. And I'm assuming that would make the FFVIII world round. That's the only example I have.

[The Man]

The world is a donut. It's obvious.

[Rengori]

Everybody knows the world is a flat surface shaped like a moogle.

[theundeadhero]

Heaven forbid, maps of the Earth, excluding globes, are flat and square too! ...and OH NO! When you follow the map North all the way up, you wind up exactly on the same longitude line at the bottom of the map! Just like in video games...

[Luke_loki]

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

what he said

[Skyblade]

Heaven forbid, maps of the Earth, excluding globes, are flat and square too! ...and OH NO! When you follow the map North all the way up, you wind up exactly on the same longitude line at the bottom of the map! Just like in video games...

Not if you're actually travelling the map, you don't...

Golden Sun has a flat world, and no problem saying so! All these lovely problems so easily sidestepped...

[Drift]

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

he wins