Quote Originally Posted by Konachibi View Post
Y'see, plenty of immersion in this game even with the teleport system. We go and find our own adventures.

In games like Warcraft there is no teleport system apart from the Hearthstone, but people never have these little stories to share like we get in FFXIV, because games like Warcraft give you so much easy 'here go and do this' stuff that you never feel like you have time to stop and smell the roses, or investigate that glowing thing off in the distance to see if there's anything there, so essentially although we spend more time running around and travelling in those kinds of games, it lacks immersion because it gives no reason for people to venture off the beaten track to see what's what.

In Final Fantasy games, both old and new, online and single-player, wandering around and ignoring the storyline for a few hours, or even days, can reap benefits you'd have never even realised, even if it's just a fun tale to tell people, it's still better than "Oh well y'know I spent all day questing, yeah I gained like, 5 levels, nothing interesting happened though."
Warcraft had mage portals and summoning system, also what you said about exploring on that game is so far off base. There are millions of stories like you are trying to say and I can barely think of any in FFXIV because it is copy/paste environments and a dead world. Not trying to totally defend that game but if you are going to try to use another game as example don't lie to try to make this game look better. I actually believe I posted that on an earlier post using WoW as an example for the amazing transportation immersion that game has.