Quote Originally Posted by Arcell View Post
Why don't they make all teleports free? Because people would bitch about it. They'd say "OMG you're making it too EZ mode!". Also they likely want to keep a restriction on it so people will actually use other means of transportation. Why walk when you can teleport? Why ride a chocobo when you can teleport? Why ride the airship when you can teleport?

It worked alright in Guild Wars but only because it was like that from the beginning (as far as I know) and the maps were packed to the brim with enemies so having to navigate them to get anywhere every time would get tedious and boring quite fast.
Arcell, why did we have Outpost warps/Chocobos/Airships in XI when we had teleports? Why were the former two still used, at least to my knowledge, fairly regularly in 2010? Teleporting, even when you can do it yourself anytime and anywhere you like, is close, but not the 'be all end all' of transportation. It's not about convenience either -- it's about having an alternative that isn't quite as fast as porting, but not nearly as slow as walking.