The Discrimination Factor of Solo/party to Casual/Hardcore respectively.

[Masaiyan]

Maybe if teleport ability was to be a reward for possibly doing a hard high level quest?
That way newbies have the ability to venture and learn the game better and use chocobos and airships.
Once they reach a high lv and do a quest etc or wtv. They earn the ability to get around faster as a reward for playing the game and attaining a high rank.

[Lemuria]

Players who want to and have time to walk/chocobo/airship can and still will walk/chocobo/airship.

The feature to teleport will not take away the option to walk/chocobo/airship for players who want to and have the time to walk/chocobo/airship.

Therefore, it is not wasted since those players will still be able to enjoy walking/chocoboing/airshiping when they can and want to.

Sadly, if WoW is any evidence, no one actually bothers doing that. The world is basically a void for levelling up and PvP rather than exploring and getting to and from dungeons. With the arrival of instant warps to dungeons came laziness and very few players will ever venture to the dungeon on foot when they can simply teleport there and do other things in the interim.

If such a system were implemented in FFXIV, you can bet a large number of people will either be (a) shopping in the market wards, or (b) working on their crafting skills or (c) filling in a few leves while waiting for groups, safe in the knowledge they can instaport there.

It makes the world feel very uninhabited, and with FFXIV already feeling like that in some places I have to voice a strong opposition to that idea. Sorry.

[Crica]

If such a system were implemented in FFXIV, you can bet a large number of people will either be (a) shopping in the market wards, or (b) working on their crafting skills or (c) filling in a few leves while waiting for groups, safe in the knowledge they can instaport there.

It makes the world feel very uninhabited, and with FFXIV already feeling like that in some places I have to voice a strong opposition to that idea. Sorry.

I disagree with you.

You are trying to say that if there are no teleports, players with limited game time will be forced to walk and therefore will keep the world populated.

In reality, players who do not want to walk because they feel it is a waste of their limited game time are not even going to bother playing the game, which in turn is not going to keep
the world populated.

You, a player with alot of gametime, are not going to see players with limited game time in the world, regardless if there is a teleport feature in the game or not.

In other words, trying to keep a game world populated by using game mechanics to force players to play in such a way they find unappealing/waste of their gametime will lead players to seek out other games to play instead that will cater to their ideas of appealing gameplay.

Options in a game are a great way to keep players playing a game and a way to attract more players to play a game, and Yoshi-P realizes this, thankfully, as he stated here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...481#post238481

We’re also going to be balancing in-game means of transportation.

Our main focus will be on the already existing anima-based teleportation system, but new forms of high-speed travel are on the way as well.

All of this means big changes to the game’s balance, aimed at giving players the freedom to play however they like.

I know there are players out there who are too busy irl to spend a lot of time playing during the week.

No problem!

Use your anima to get you where you need to go.

Maybe you have more time to play on the weekends?

Great!

Mount up and travel around Eorzea with your companions on chocoboback, or grab an airship!

This is the kind of freedom I want you to have—the freedom to choose your own style of play.

And it is going to be a major focus of FFXIV’s development from here on out.

Again, the option to teleport would not remove your preferred option to walk/chocobo/airship - therefore players like you would still have the options that appealed to them.

Are you afraid there are not other players such as yourself who prefer to walk/chocobo/airship?

Read this thread, there are many players like you in FFXIV, just like there are many players like me in FFXIV.

The only change with this feature would be players like me would enjoy the game more and would be more likely to continue playing.

Players like you are already enjoying the game because your preferred options are already in the game. (and planned for patch 1.19).

[Eekiki]

WHY do you CARE about ME teleporting to a dungeon????

HOW is ME teleporting to a dungeon making YOUR gameplay BAD????

Calm down! Geez! So someone disagrees with you. Deal with it!

[TheVedis]

Calm down! Geez! So someone disagrees with you. Deal with it!

How does dealing with it affect your gameplay!

[Crica]

Calm down! Geez! So someone disagrees with you. Deal with it!

Disagreeing just to disagree doesn't mean anything.

Saying why you disagree and how it negatively affects your gameplay means something.

Answering my post is how the devs will learn to make the game more appealing, not just saying you disagree and players with whom you disagree must be forced to comply simply because you disagree for no reason.

[Masaiyan]

Chill people. Let's remain focused.

[Mugiwara]

I am for OPTIONS in a game as long as the options do not adversely affect other players.

So yes, any OPTION other players use that I DO NOT HAVE TO USE or DOES NOT AFFECT my gameplay negatively make no difference to me if they are in the game.

And other players teleporting to a dungeon they want to play in has NO AFFECT on my gameplay AT ALL, so WHY would I care if they teleport??

this post = waaaaaa, WAAAAA!, i want insta tele everywhere!!! WAAAAAAH!!!!, either way this is what you sound like... someone needs to take the nipple out of their mouth...