Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Azurymber]

Yeah, you're distracting from the issue by making it seem more complicated than it is.

The issue is simply one of enjoying the journey. You would like to enjoy it, and I'm telling you there's absolutely nothing stopping you.

If you don't like teleporting, then don't. There's nothing standing in your way from moving around as slowly as you like. What does it matter to you how fast anyone else travels?

Your enjoyment shouldn't come from impeding others.

again i can make the same argument about levelling. Why should you care if i auto-level? Its not impeding your game play? why should you care if i get all the best gear in the game instantly?

The reason i care is because it ruins the whole feel of the game. It also lessens the chance that they will ever generate content based on the airship and will just leave it empty to please the -few- people who will ride it once. It also hurts the game in general. Instant travel ruins the sense of adventure that FFXI had. And this game isn't competitive enough to lose that.

[DNO]

again i can make the same argument about levelling. Why should you care if i auto-level? Its not impeding your game play? why should you care if i get all the best gear in the game instantly?

The reason i care is because it ruins the whole feel of the game. It also lessens the chance that they will ever generate content based on the airship and will just leave it empty to please the -few- people who will ride it once. It also hurts the game in general. Instant travel ruins the sense of adventure that FFXI had. And this game isn't competitive enough to lose that.

if you like ff11. go play that. this is not ff11 and we are gonna have faster means of travel. thats a fact. get over it. and as your thread states most people do not want to walk and thats not fun.

You must understand what keeps people playing is fun (WoW) not immersion (FF11) (WoW 10 million subs FF11 500k subs? if that)

[Azurymber]

if you like ff11. go play that. this is not ff11 and we are gonna have faster means of travel. thats a fact. get over it. and as your thread states most people do not want to walk and thats not fun.

You must understand what keeps people playing is fun (WoW) not immersion (FF11) (WoW 10 million subs FF11 500k subs? if that)

ff14 has only 20,000ish registered to these boards.... so uhhh
Clearly what you think is fun has fallen flat on its face in fail.

Copying the guy who has experience and the best product isn't going to work when you can't make a product that comes close. FFXIV's only solution is to become unique and have distinctive features. As a STORY BASED RPG FRANCHISE you would think story and immersion would be an obvious pick Seriously, this is final fantasy... what FF have you played where you warp around?

[DNO]

ff14 has only 20,000ish registered to these boards.... so uhhh
Clearly what you think is fun has fallen flat on its face in fail.

Copying the guy who has experience and the best product isn't going to work when you can't make a product that comes close. FFXIV's only solution is to become unique and have distinctive features. As a STORY BASED RPG FRANCHISE you would think story and immersion would be an obvious pick Seriously, this is final fantasy... what FF have you played where you warp around?

Wow really? REALLY?
You are gonna blame f14 subs on the fact that ONE YEAR after a failed launch and horrid reviews that SE finally puts in a faster means to travel via airship??

On to the second horrid point you made.
Wow again really!? You would rather SE copy idea from ff11 which never got 1 million people to sub for any long period of time then to copy WoW which has had 10 million subs + for 5 years now? REALLY? (personally i played ff11 for 6 years over wow so i do like ff11 better but i want a huge population and ff11 never had that. So i understand that things like 2 hour walking to get to camp is just not fun for everyone.)

O and FF11 has tele/warps everywhere BTW.