Please let us *really* ride airships

[Kirith]

As a programmer with game development experience i really can't bring myself to believe this is the best they could achieve having their own in-house renderer and development suite. Judging from the state of the game at release i can't see any sign of something more advanced than what we saw in FFXI being planned for it, either. Also, the former team wasn't completely replaced, only key figures were. The ones mostly responsible for core design choices. It's their engine and their programmers after all.
Sadly the only logical explanation i can see for this apparent lack of modernity in the game is an unsatisfying knowledge of mmorpg development and insufficient research by the company's managerial positions. FFXIV was announced and released too fast, i had trust in Tanaka on long term (unlike the current team), but in any case you can't have old men without a varied mmorpg development experience start making an AAA game in this ultra-competitive field, no matter how much wow they play. 10 years ago it was still not so strange, but right now the consequences of doing that are in front of everyone's eyes.

[Rukkirii]

While the airships in 1.19 will feature cutscene-only, quick transport, there are future plans for being able to move around aboard the airship and enjoy the scenery while flying to your destinations. We are also planning on adding airship-related content, such as quests and other things to do.

For now, please enjoy airships as a method of transportation and look forward to what’s coming! ^_^

[Kiote]

While the airships in 1.19 will feature cutscene-only, quick transport, there are future plans for being able to move around aboard the airship and enjoy the scenery while flying to your destinations. We are also planning on adding airship-related content, such as quests and other things to do.

For now, please enjoy airships as a method of transportation and look forward to what’s coming! ^_^

And this is why we love Rukkirii

[Fensfield]

While the airships in 1.19 will feature cutscene-only, quick transport, there are future plans for being able to move around aboard the airship and enjoy the scenery while flying to your destinations. We are also planning on adding airship-related content, such as quests and other things to do.

For now, please enjoy airships as a method of transportation and look forward to what’s coming! ^_^

Thank you Rukkirii, your reiterating that, at this point, is really reassuring.

[weeble]

boooooooo, they need to still keep the fast travel version as well, keep the ride for those who want it. i'd use it but only when i want to fish on it, or when i want to kill something on it. that is only reason we should ever be forced to sit on a boat for 10mins instead of just moving onto what we were doing.

[Onizuka]

Thank you for the additional confirmation, Rukkirii. *pets once again Opo-opo's fur*

Thanks to Reinheart as well for his translations.

I'll look forward to these new future contents planned for airships!

[IStolzI]

boooooooo, they need to still keep the fast travel version as well

That's what anima is for. Not all transportation needs to be instant.

[Eva]

I must respectfully disagree with this post. I am so greatful that these airships are instance travel. Waiting 15 minutes for an airship to arrive, then take-off, the waiting for the ride itself is EXCRUCIATING. Taking a ride is neat the first time. The 1,000th time? Not so fun. Fact is, we need a fast way to get between cities. Please, if you're listening moderaters, pass on that this is a great idea and it should stay this way, at least between city states.

If you want to make everyone happy, make a longer airship ride available when you release the first expansion. For example, take the airship ride from Jeuno to Kazham from FFXI. Something like this would be the perfect opportunity to create a longer ride, which you can view the land passing underneath. Furthermore, since this airship is taking you to a more dangerous, hostile area this would be a great instance to implement Airship Pirate attacks. If you made defeating these pirates have a cool reward, then all the people upset that there is no airship ride can just ride this ship all day and kill pirates and be satisfied.

I agree that it was lots of fun taking the ferry from Selbina to Mhaura and you would have the Sea Horror spawn sometimes and very rarely a group of Skeleton Pirates would spawn and thier leader would drop a super good WHM weapon (if my memory serves me correctly). And you could fish at high levels and get great drops. Why not implement stuff like this in FFXIV on the ferry from Limsa Lominsa to Ul'dah?

But as for the airship ride between City States? No thanks! Let us just have a way to travel between them in the shortest time possible. Please! Have the ferry leave every minute. It's such a pain at the moment to head to Gridania to check if there are any Guildleves that reward Conjurer or Lancer marks just to find out there isn't and the whole trip was a waste.

I'm dissapointed so many people are worked up over such an insignificant part of the game. Now, Party Search functions and Invite Fags, that's a serious issue....

Keep up the great work developers at Square Enix!

[Holland]

I must respectfully disagree with this post. I am so greatful that these airships are instance travel.

Keep up the great work developers at Square Enix!

They were meant to have a longer travel period from the start but due to development cost/time they could only implement them as instant. What you are asking for of the airship travel is already in the game, its called teleport to the City-state Aetherial Plaza.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

I must respectfully disagree with this post. I am so greatful that these airships are instance travel. Waiting 15 minutes for an airship to arrive, then take-off, the waiting for the ride itself is EXCRUCIATING. Taking a ride is neat the first time. The 1,000th time? Not so fun. Fact is, we need a fast way to get between cities. Please, if you're listening moderaters, pass on that this is a great idea and it should stay this way, at least between city states.

I stopped reading after the 1st paragraph.. too much whining and bitching.

You want fast travel between cities when they make airship an actual ride with content?

USE YOUR ANIMAS AND QUIT YOUR CRYING!

People are so spoiled with instant travelling that they don't want to compromise for anything else after. If you don't have time to take the ship or go there on chocoback then use your animas. When you have more time, then go on your chocobo or take the airship ride, w/e suits you best ans save your animas when you need to fast travel... Fast travelling has it's advantage but not everything needs to be instant.