Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Jaber]

They removed the cap? As in, you can go in and faceroll the place with your level 75/100/whatever char?
I quit playing just before they released Abysea, and at that time it still hobbled you at level 30.

I saw people shouting for parties for hours, then they'd disappear, come back an hour later, and start shouting again, presumably because they lost.
It took me many tries to clear each one, and when I helped LS members with it we had pretty much the same results every time. There was a specific strategy to follow, and it usually relied on luck and spamming consumables, much like the BCNM fights now that I think about it. The level 75 ones were great. They were challenging, but they didn't rely on you being a specific job with specific gear spamming consumables and getting lucky
But, that's going off on a tangent...

Regardless of how they are now, there was a very long period of time in which they were so bothersome to do that people did them once to get closer to that rajas/tamas ring then never ever again ever. :/

[Azurymber]

They removed the cap? As in, you can go in and faceroll the place with your level 75/100/whatever char?
I quit playing just before they released Abysea, and at that time it still hobbled you at level 30.

I saw people shouting for parties for hours, then they'd disappear, come back an hour later, and start shouting again, presumable because they lost.

Abyssea killed all the adventure in FFXI and easymoded everything. And the game died. go figure.