Does anyone else miss boat rides from ffxi (espcially fishers?)

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Originally Posted by QiLymePye

Yeah, but i didn't mind that as much. just made it a little more realistic. But i do miss the airship rides. I loved looking over the edge and watching the city get bigger as you approached. Was very cool.

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Wind blowing by (that sound), the landscape zooming under you, and that BGM that made you feel like you were off to an adventure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-if85nnGWMg

Yeah, I was disappointing that the ferry/airship was turned into instant teleports. Not like they already gave everyone them already.

I'd like to remind a lot of the people who are "nostalgic" for the boat rides that them being "really pretty" isn't the reason people hate them.
The reason people hate them is because they took FOREVER and were required, not to mention the chance of death if you were underleveled and/or unaware of the danger.
One MMO reviewer, on the topic of a game that still has boats as a feature and requirement to get around, put it best: "I shouldn't have to find a way to escape the tedium in a game i play to escape the tedium."

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Originally Posted by Magis

Wind blowing by (that sound), the landscape zooming under you, and that BGM that made you feel like you were off to an adventure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-if85nnGWMg

Yeah, I was disappointing that the ferry/airship was turned into instant teleports. Not like they already gave everyone them already.

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Oh man I really hope personal airships play that music, or something similar! @.@
(I totally forgot that BGM and how awesome it was)

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Originally Posted by Kotemon

I wouldn't say it was great. But when you had to wait 15~ 30 minutes to get somewhere on a slow boat, you didn't have much of a choice. Ask anyone who ran from point A and B in 1.0if they miss running around the world. While I did understand its purpose as what you had to do before getting an airship pass, or the modern home point warps. I miss it more for the scenery but not to the point where I'd want to do it again, Unless I had to hunt pirates for quest items that was about the only real draw to that one boat ride.

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To answer your question: Aye I miss it. :( There weren't even any chocobos or airships back then either, so it really made it feel like you were part of a large world. Teleports were on occasions only use.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

put it best: "I shouldn't have to find a way to escape the tedium in a game i play to escape the tedium."

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Tedium is a state of mind. I must say I had a lot less tedium in ARR before I started teleporting everywhere.
Where's the rush you know?

I overall miss the game world feeling like a actual place. Distance wasn't just a mundane 5hink it was another challenge to overcome, especially when mixed with the general danger the open world possessed.

1.0 at least had teeth. This games open world got neutered and any semblance of the open world being important flew out the window it's now relegated to a glorified waiting room with little to no reason to even exist besides a staging point for instanced events.

I still have some faith in open world content. Especially knowing they are barring access to ishguard until a certain point in the story. Most likely meaning flying mount accessable content may actually pose some risks.

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Originally Posted by Aeyis

Tedium is a state of mind. I must say I had a lot less tedium in ARR before I started teleporting everywhere.
Where's the rush you know?

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The "rush" is that we're paying for our time in this game. Time spent doing nothing in the game is time better spent elsewhere.
To get from point A to point B, you have to ride a boat. To ride the boat, you have to wait. During that wait, you have the following things to do:
1) Wait. Find something else to do in the real world.
2) Hope the boat comes under attack and either kill the enemies or die.
3) Fish.

Since #1 also overlaps with #2 and #3, that is tedium. #2 even adds extra tedium by forcing you to ride the boat again if you die.
When you teleport, your wait time is as long as it takes to load the zone. This means you can go do things faster, as there is no "time wall" between you and what you want to do.
Anything that takes you away from doing *something* within the game is a form of avoidable tedium. Using a boat once in a while is OK, but them being a regular thing is just not going to happen.
There's a reason the VAST majority of MMOs dropped the idea of boat rides. The amount of work to create them is simply not worth the end result. You are specifically creating something players have derided as a feature for SIXTEEN YEARS.

The boat/airship rides...

1st time: "hey this is kinda neat!"
4th time: "I guess I can go make a sandwhich, and watch the scenery go by"
20th time: "ugh, I'll come back when it's over"
100 billionth time: "oh yeah, screw this. /logout"

I enjoyed the boat rides/airship rides for the first couple of years!...not so much the last 8 yrs though, I got old to wait....and wait. The ride between Al Zahbi & Nashmau was drool/sleep inducing lol

Much happier now with ports all over ^^

I miss fishing on the boat and sea horror waiting at the door to murder a bunch of rmt. I don't miss airships/boats being a requirement to get anywhere. It would be nice if the boat in the Rhotano sea would move around while fishing. It wouldn't even have to dock (no waiting!), they could just say you took a smaller boat to get on-board so it doesn't "ruin immersion" when you just warp up there. Just changing scenery in the background while going for neptos would be more interesting then a static view of Costa.

I'm happy we don't have FFXI travel... certainly it was "realistic" but it was impractical. If we have the option of traveling in an open area by air or seacraft as an FC? I think that it would be AWESOME to have this back, because then you have a group for any special encounters and everything, and there are special things to be done. And if all rewards for these "missions" go straight to company coffers, that would be awesome....