With airships and chocobos take away teleporting!

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Because we don't want them to spend their resources and time making new and useful and interesting content. We want them to spend it just coming up with ways for us to earn back crap we originally started with.

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We should have never started out with it in the first place, its clearly a halfassed throw in to appease people while they work on chocobos and airships.

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Originally Posted by Morticous

We should have never started out with it in the first place, its clearly a halfassed throw in to appease people while they work on chocobos and airships.

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So that's a yes to them not taking time for new and actually fun and innovative things, and to wasting it on lame quests just to get back stuff we started with?

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Originally Posted by Symon17

I wonder if I should be surprised that so many people are having such a hard time understanding that not everyone in the world feels the same way they do. The amount of silly arguing and logical fallacies in this thread is ridiculous.

In a case like this, taking away teleportation makes one side happy, and completely removes the other's ideal method of play. Leaving it in allows both sides to continue playing in a way that they desire, since those against teleporting retain the right to walk. The argument for teleportation is requesting a convenient way to play. The argument against teleportation ends up inconveniencing or punishing others who play for different reasons.

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Our point exactly. He seems to want to make everyone HAVE to play the game like he wants to play it.

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Originally Posted by Morticous

You asked why i want to restrict anima, thats why, because i dont want to play in cricketville because everyone already beat the game... in 5 months.

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Besides your point not making any sense to me, MMOs in general having been taking this route of adding X months of content when in reality its X months of grinding before you can touch content Y. This approach has become standard however, I see this approach as flawed. Content is great to have but it must not be at the cost of tedious grinding and timesinks for that only make the time spent with the less enjoyable while notably longer. Games in general should be more about the joy of playing not the pain of playing.

With that said, I think MMOs have to take the route of having great content that is fun or a blast to replay with others. If FPS can have gamers playing the same maps for years and still having fun, then MMOs with all of its content should be able to achieve the same.

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Originally Posted by Crica

Not in particular.

I prefer to party and fight.

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Well I hate crafting but you dont see me posting asking for it to be abolished and they should just give me all the gear at level one... because i see the need for it. I also see the need to ask people to quest for something as simple as anima.

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Originally Posted by geniusprime

I don't understand why some people see the need to punish players for playing in a manner that does not suite them. Its such a selfish and self centered point of view. If folks want to teleport to their hearts content, let them. How does that affect the way you play? Why should it even concern you? If you don't like teleport simply don't teleport. Such a simple solution. Why must other players "suffer" because you prefer to be grossly inconvenience by the monotony of walk EVERYWHERE?

Besides that, it is the developers job to make traveling or exploring the region beneficial or exciting to the player. Currently there is no benefit to exploring the ends of this game's world. You see something magnificent on the horizon, you reach there and its nothing. No new quest, no new hub, no new anything. Just another desolate location on the map.

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By the way, this isn't about exploration of current game, it sux now, nothing new to explore or any content, its about the future when things get implemented and players get too used to anima, they would be strongly against removing them or adjusting them in anyway and killing an aspect of the game, "new area added, is there a atheryte there?, i dont wanna walk through there, too much high lvl monsters, i need a aethryte." thats just killing the dangerous/adventures aspects of gaming and corner the Dev to make things even easier "All the monsters will not aggro anymore".

its not about making people suffer, it would not only ruin my gameplay, it would kill the entire gameplay because there would be no point in chocobo or airship, "why do i need to take a Chocobo/airship when i can use anima like nothing?" people are walking not because they want to walk, its because teleport is generally used for things such long distance travel.

SE should just remove aethryte from some area and keep the main ones or balanced out so they are distributed only in players gathering places and different continents, for example, other than cities, 2 in Thanalan(east and west), 2 in Black Shroud etc..

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Originally Posted by Morticous

Hey Synapse, remembe rwhen you had to hit rank 5 to get an airship pass? All the fun and questing it brought? well who the hell needs that when you could be handed one or simply just keep using your anima!

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Haha yup, what kinda of new player would have 500k to buy a pass, and questing the items seemed fun, i believe thats how i met few of my friends i played with for yrs.

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Originally Posted by Crica

In real life, you bet.

In a game, not at all.

Games are for fun, and if players have fun by using anima right off the bat in a game, who cares?

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More people than you know, obviously. Not everyone who plays the game is on these boards.

The main point is you think teleporting everywhere is fun. OK, that's fine but how long will that last? You didn't work for that ability, you have no sense of achievement for such an insane power! And if you already have such crazyinsaneawesome powers right off the bat, then maybe you're too awesome to bother doing anything else, why bother? You've got everything you asked for handed to you from the start!

While you can argue that it's convenient, my argument back to you is(and I can safely say I'm speaking for the majority here) Why bother playing a game where you don't need to do anything? Where's your sense of adventure? Where's your sense of achievement? You didn't put any effort in at all and thats what MMORPGs are mostly about, making you feel that you've achieved something of the impossible around every corner, making you work up to being the Hero you want to be.

Hell why not start at rank 50 on 1 job? Then when the rank cap goes up, all of the jobs you have at rank 50 jump automatically to the new cap! I'll tell you why, because it makes the game pointless. You aren't doing anything.

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Originally Posted by Morticous

Well I hate crafting but you dont see me posting asking for it to be abolished and they should just give me all the gear at level one... because i see the need for it. I also see the need to ask people to quest for something as simple as anima.

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Now who's being extreme? No one here is asking for them to abolish walking. We're not in here going "hurrhurr, lets have infinite anima that never ever runs out and we can instantly port everywhere!" With the current system, tons of people still run on foot all over the effing place. All we want is them to NOT change something.

It seems everyone FOR changing anima seems to have forgotten that its a limited resource that runs out very effing quickly for anyone who plays on a regular basis... They seem to think that anima as it exists now will have people never ever walking anywhere on foot as soon as there's some place to walk to... Yet they completely miss the fact that people ALREADY run around on foot a lot. Anima, as it is now, only eliminates walking for extremely casual players.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Now who's being extreme? No one here is asking for them to abolish walking. We're not in here going "hurrhurr, lets have infinite anima that never ever runs out and we can instantly port everywhere!" With the current system, tons of people still run on foot all over the effing place. All we want is them to NOT change something.

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My point was i see the need to craft and i also see the need for a little bit of traveling sometimes instead of being handed 100 anima points to teleport across the map whenever i want. You and Crica are good at taking someones suggestions and making them into something different.