I hate aether currents with a passion

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Originally Posted by Atrayl

Designing your zones to take advantage of flying and then forcing your players to walk through the zone to unlock flying is like designing a fire extinguisher that has to spit out a reservoir of gasoline before it gets to the C02.

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Pretty much this. Flying should have been a tool to HELP players while questing and to make the leveling experience you know...fun...instead we literally get the complete opposite. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less from square though. They truly enjoy trolling there playerbase. I can almost hear how the meeting went down when they were designing this: "Hey guys let's add flying to the game! Now let's make it so you have to run around EVERYWHERE in the zone on foot and do almost EVERY quest before you can actually fly in it by which time you will leave it and never have a reason to come back! BWHAAHHAHAhahahahaha!"

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Originally Posted by Roda

While I feel similarly, I also feel like the completion of aether currents occurs way too closely to the point in which you move to the next zone.
You really don't get to enjoy it until later on when you're in moogle hell.

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Bodes well as I have just started the moogle questline. I have heard some real hatred about those little critters from my FC members

I was surprised at the way flying works. Having to unlock 15 points on each map is a little overkill if you ask me. The main story quests I can understand, it's like they don't want you to fly yet until you progress up to a certain point in the story. I'm okay with that. But the sidequests and the little exploration mini game have felt a little annoying and quite tedious. The worst part is when your compass leads you to giant cliffs that are not accessible.

http://i.imgur.com/UD3h5CQ.jpg

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Originally Posted by nightshadezero

Frankly, having to collect the Aether Currents really makes me appreciate being able to fly after! The challenge makes the reward sweeter.

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Time Consumption does not equal challenge. All I see is a main feature of an expansion gated for no reason other then time consumption.

There's ramp on the other side

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Originally Posted by aerialrave

I was surprised at the way flying works. Having to unlock 15 points on each map is a little overkill if you ask me. The main story quests I can understand, it's like they don't want you to fly yet until you progress up to a certain point in the story. I'm okay with that. But the sidequests and the little exploration mini game have felt a little annoying and quite tedious. The worst part is when your compass leads you to giant cliffs that are not accessible.

http://i.imgur.com/UD3h5CQ.jpg

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There a ramp on the other side.

I actually like the part where you hunt for the aether currents. What I don't like, is the quests that are attached to unlocking the aether currents as well. THAT bugs me like crazy.

I like the looking for currents part because it's like another tool for exploration. And at least they gave a compass that points to the exact direction of the current's location. If they truly be trolling, they'd give us nothing and say, "go find it lulz".

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Originally Posted by aerialrave

I was surprised at the way flying works. Having to unlock 15 points on each map is a little overkill if you ask me. The main story quests I can understand, it's like they don't want you to fly yet until you progress up to a certain point in the story. I'm okay with that. But the sidequests and the little exploration mini game have felt a little annoying and quite tedious. The worst part is when your compass leads you to giant cliffs that are not accessible.

http://i.imgur.com/UD3h5CQ.jpg

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You will be able to get this later in your quest chain once you Unlock the bridge from Idyllshire.

Initially hearing about how we had to get aether currents before we could fly ticked me off. However, after actually playing through the story so far (I'm not done yet) and having unlocked 3 of the 6 areas, I have to say I actually enjoyed tracking these aether currents down. Kind of became a little mini-game to me. Except for when I got to Churning Mists, seemed like 90% of the currents were along the way of the MSQ and/or sidequests I was doing anyway so I'd just go somewhere or be heading somewhere and see the current and then go get it. The other two maps I've completed so far, I had to use the Compass to find nearly all of the Aether Currents, but I found it kinda fun.

And flying is so awesome It's like the frosting on the cake.

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Originally Posted by Madjames

Time Consumption does not equal challenge. All I see is a main feature of an expansion gated for no reason other then time consumption.

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This is how this game works, and yes I don't exactly love it... but it is their rule - padding time by making you doing useless activities such as this. FF14 is tame in comparison though, the WORST offender is FFXI. If you hate being gated and forced to run around, then you will absolutely loathe FFXI, where every single thing is "gated" behind "go farm this, oh it's random drop, spend an hour or two". Every single activities is like this.