Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

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WHAT WHO CAME UP WITH THIS!?

i believe it was Confucius

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on topic: the only thing that hurts the immersion of this game is the bland lifeless world that is the game.

[Ilean]

*steals ileans popcorn*

nom nom nom x3

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/moarchars

[PrettyPrincess]

I feel like a complete idiot for debating this with you. This comment right here, if it were spoken sooner, people wouldn't even bother with you. Who the hell plays a game they don't enjoy because it's "final fantasy". I love Daniel Day Lewis, but if he pooped on a plate and told me to eat it, I wouldn't because I don't like eating feces. Just because it came from my favorite actor doesn't change how I feel. However, if I were mentally challenged, I prrrrooooobably would have.

I am pleased with this post

[Eekiki]

when SW TOR comes out i wont log on much
etc.

I wish EA would hurry up and release that piece of garbage so people here will stop talking about it.

They'll release it, we'll get 2-3 weeks of glorious silence while they go and play it. Then they'll see how rotten it is and be back here threatening to quit for the next over-hyped junk.

Remember back in March, when Crysis 2 was going to be the death of FFXIV? Or April, when it was Portal 2? Remember when BelgianRofl went on for a month about how April 19th was going to be FFXIV's "last day"?

How did that turn out again?

[PrettyPrincess]

I wish EA would hurry up and release that piece of garbage so people here will stop talking about it.

They'll release it, we'll get 2-3 weeks of glorious silence while they go and play it. Then they'll see how rotten it is and be back here threatening to quit for the next over-hyped junk.

Remember back in March, when Crysis 2 was going to be the death of FFXIV? Or April, when it was Portal 2? Remember when BelgianRofl went on for a month about how April 19th was going to be FFXIV's "last day"?

How did that turn out again?

Pretty much this ^

[Jynx]

SWTOR is going to bomb hard when they can't keep up with the rediculous ammount of content they are promising. Full Voice acting for multiple characters on various quests?

...Good luck with that Bioware.

[Azurymber]

SW TOR is based off the KOTOR games and still very similar
those games were a massive success
and from what ive heard you can play all of TOR like that (ex. solo)
So that alone should make it a success

Will people stay registered? who knows.
but if they do they will definitely be making enough money to afford to keep up the voice acting.
And unlike the other games its an MMO. which -is- a threat to the game.

Rift did drain a bunch of people away. Probably a good half or more of wutai's original endgame (the first ppl to kill most NMs and Dodore) left for Rift. And those were the "elite" players who pushed jobs and crafts to 50 while other ppl were still stuck at 30.

Other MMOs always have the potential to drain away players. Especially dissatisfied hardcore ones who have nothing left to do but grind.

[User201109011315]

SW TOR is based off the KOTOR games and still very similar
those games were a massive success
and from what ive heard you can play all of TOR like that (ex. solo)
So that alone should make it a success

Will people stay registered? who knows.
but if they do they will definitely be making enough money to afford to keep up the voice acting.
And unlike the other games its an MMO. which -is- a threat to the game.

Rift did drain a bunch of people away. Probably a good half or more of wutai's original endgame (the first ppl to kill most NMs and Dodore) left for Rift. And those were the "elite" players who pushed jobs and crafts to 50 while other ppl were still stuck at 30.

Other MMOs always have the potential to drain away players. Especially dissatisfied hardcore ones who have nothing left to do but grind.

Most people i know left for rift too. And there is this one guy who is FFXIV's biggest blind fanboy who is leaving for SW:ToR.

I think the fact that he could be so disenchanted with FFXIV due to some of the changes is what makes me really question SE's ability to succeed.

I won't be playing SW:ToR personally, but i think many FF players share fandom with SW so it could be a pretty big blow to FF's population. Most people don't play two MMOs fulltime. Another thing to take not of is the fact that FFXIV's only selling point, i.e., the only things that really made it stand out against other games, are slowly being eroded (which I realise is a contentious point to some but you've got to be bling to miss it, no offence).

[Konachibi]

I think SW: TOR will do really well, Bioware don't often make bad games (Dragon Age 2 doing surprisingly badly, but given that EA now own Bioware to an extent, it wasn't too surprising ), and I was going to join it, but after playing FFXIV I don't have the desire to play TOR anymore.

That being said I doubt FFXIV will suffer too much from TORs release.

And as for TORs content, I'm pretty sure Bioware made enough money from most of their games being huge successes and making game of the year on multiple occassions for them to afford to keep using the same voice actors for extra content. (e.g/ Mass Effect 1 and 2 used all the same voice actors despite the huge gap in years between their releases)