Quote Originally Posted by AkashiXI View Post
To anyone that wishes to run around everywhere you go, I urge you to either play Dragon's Dogma or watch LPs of it. That game is a great example of what happens when you limit transportation: repetitive, boring backtracking. FFXIV will become stale enough where riding a chocobo from your town to the nearest beastmen will become a chore. I believe the better solution is to give more scenic choices, like expanding on chocobo ports, but giving more limited access to other exclusive transportation devices.
It's funny because I played the heck out of dragons dogma and it's one of my favorit games. Also there is teleporting in that game, you must have missed it even then I didn't use it. The reason being because it was FUN to run across the world killing things, this game it's not so much.