Can we please have flight unlocked as part of the main story?

[Catwho]

The whole point was to force you to explore the zone on foot, get to know the landscape and the layout, before you got the freedom to just fly over it and ignore it. Trust me, it seems like you leave that zone as soon as you unlock flight, but you'll be going back way more than you would expect for MSQ, for hunts, and for other tasks.

They finally gave us puzzle-lovers a toy to play with and you want them to take it away.

[Colt47]

The whole point was to force you to explore the zone on foot, get to know the landscape and the layout, before you got the freedom to just fly over it and ignore it. Trust me, it seems like you leave that zone as soon as you unlock flight, but you'll be going back way more than you would expect for MSQ, for hunts, and for other tasks.

They finally gave us puzzle-lovers a toy to play with and you want them to take it away.

That's great! And meanwhile, it's the only way to reach a hunt if it spawns on an inaccessible ledge, thereby forcing people who aren't into that sort of thing to have to go wonder around a maze of a zone trying to get to aether currents, or find quests that give them that. It's not as simple as run in X direction.

Also, some of us want to spend our time in other ways, like running things with friends. I mean, that was the point of making dungeons part of the main story, right? Why should someone more interested in doing things with buddies be forced to run around doing fetch and kill quests solo and run around an entire zone for an hour solo?

Here, it's been made all lazy mode for you already.

Since when did someone become lazy when they don't want to do something that feels like they are at work in their off hours?

[Malevicton]

That's great! And meanwhile, it's the only way to reach a hunt if it spawns on an inaccessible ledge, thereby forcing people who aren't into that sort of thing to have to go wonder around a maze of a zone trying to get to aether currents, or find quests that give them that. It's not as simple as run in X direction.

Also, some of us want to spend our time in other ways, like running things with friends. I mean, that was the point of making dungeons part of the main story, right? Why should someone more interested in doing things with buddies be forced to run around doing fetch and kill quests solo and run around an entire zone for an hour solo?

You can easily get the aether currents while you're leveling in the zone. Hunts are a non-issue unless you were procrastinating and refusing to do your currents.

Playing with friends also a non-issue. You could do all the quests and aether hunting with your friends if you wanted. It's not keeping you from playing with your friends, you just don't feel like doing them and are grasping for some excuse to try and make your personal opinion sound like it's more than just a personal opinion.

[Colt47]

You can easily get the aether currents while you're leveling in the zone. Hunts are a non-issue unless you were procrastinating and refusing to do your currents.

Playing with friends also a non-issue. You could do all the quests and aether hunting with your friends if you wanted. It's not keeping you from playing with your friends, you just don't feel like doing them and are grasping for some excuse to try and make your personal opinion sound like it's more than just a personal opinion.

That was a bad posting on my part. I think one of my later postings better illustrates what I'm getting at.

[Kuponutz]

be forced to run around doing fetch and kill quests solo and run around an entire zone for an hour solo?

Last I checked no one is forcing anyone to do anything. This is an MMO and FF games (including their MMOs) are grindy. You would have not lasted a day in XI, lol. If you feel that something that requires zero skill is too hard then maybe you should consider WoW.