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Originally Posted by
Colorful
I don't understand where you're coming from, travel is nothing more for me than clicking the autorun button, and chatting in FC chat, alt tabbing, whatever. Especially with flying where I don't have to worry about running into things. What's the problem with getting to your destination faster? Really, I don't see one possible negative to it, teleports are already over the place, so it's not like they want us to take a long time to get to our destinations. Mind sharing your reasoning for that?
Well, basically, the faster you go, the smaller the area seems to be. Which further trivializes the areas we have, in my eyes. They're already 'too small', and cutting down on the time it takes to get from one end to the other (ignoring Heavy, of course) would make them seem even smaller. If the only time we spend in a zone is when we travel from point A to B (in the beginning quest locations, later on aetheryte -> gathering nodes or hunt marks), I know I personally would prefer that said time wasn't made any shorter than it is in the old-world zones now ^^;
I still remember getting my first chocobo (on an alt that used to be my main). Before then, me and my flatmate had run everywhere we could, or used chocobo porters/ferries. I honestly didn't use Teleport once during the first six months or so that I played. Return, yes, but not Teleport -- it was too expensive for my noob wallet. But after having those chocobos for less than a week, hopping over to an alt that didn't yet have chocobos was a pain. Using your own two feet to run somewhere was so slooooooow, and we couldn't wait till we got our chocobos.
Then Heavensward came out, and we got to fly. Omgsquee and all that. But... ground mounts now are just as slow as running seemed back then, and when we hopped over to one pair of alts that still didn't have chocobos? It was torture.