Teleport kills immersion

[Alahra]

This thread in a nutshell. It's funny because this is the argument on both sides, pro-porter vs pro-onfooter.

I don't begrudge anyone who likes the teleport network we have. I'm not even necessarily opposed to the teleporting itself, I just wish it were implemented somewhat differently. It's built into the world's lore, after all—I just think it's sort of overkill at this point and it takes me out of the game to constantly be staring at a pop up menu of teleport locations.

I'd either like fewer main teleport destinations (either, just the city-states or just one main Aetheryte per region), or the need to physically touch an Aetheryte to teleport, much like we need to with the mini-aetherytes already.

You know what ruins my immersion?

FLYING FREAKING TORTOISE MOUNTS,
but you know. Not complaining.

Honestly, I have to do a sort of doublethink and pretend everyone's on chocobos. I really dislike how many mounts there are already and now we're going to have a flying turtle and a flying wolf (I'm pretty sure they said they were making Fenrir a flying mount, anyway). It doesn't feel like Final Fantasy to me. x.x

[Dualgunner]

I don't begrudge anyone who likes the teleport network we have. I'm not even necessarily opposed to the teleporting itself, I just wish it were implemented somewhat differently. It's built into the world's lore, after all—I just think it's sort of overkill at this point and it takes me out of the game to constantly be staring at a pop up menu of teleport locations.

I'd either like fewer main teleport destinations (either, just the city-states or just one main Aetheryte per region), or the need to physically touch an Aetheryte to teleport, much like we need to with the mini-aetherytes already.

I'm not saying you do, I'm just saying that you managed to word out almost exactly what everyone on both sides of this is saying and I find that humorous.

Personally, I agree with the observation that this game is one where you largely have to jump through a window to get to content (I forget if it was actually you who said this but I think you cited this). With that said, I do enjoy the convenience of it, and Heavensward is relatively light on Aetherytes in the new zones; the Hinterlands, for example, don't even have an Aetheryte.

I personally think what would be better to focus on is less the teleportation in the overworld and rather the instanced nature of the Duty Finder.

[Alahra]

I personally think what would be better to focus on is less the teleportation in the overworld and rather the instanced nature of the Duty Finder.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I hate the Duty Finder. I almost didn't switch over to this game from FFXI when I found out they were adding it during the Beta. But of the two, I think we'd be more likely to see, say, the 4.0 areas have fewer Aetherytes than we would be for the amount of content in the DF to ever be scaled back.

I actually rather like content that doesn't let us use it (like the original Chimera and Hydra fights, as well as the current raid tier for a given patch cycle), and I'd like to see more of it, but the addition of Chimera and Hydra to the DF (and Roulettes, in general), suggests that won't ever really happen.

[Iagainsti]

Honestly, I have to do a sort of doublethink and pretend everyone's on chocobos. I really dislike how many mounts there are already and now we're going to have a flying turtle and a flying wolf (I'm pretty sure they said they were making Fenrir a flying mount, anyway). It doesn't feel like Final Fantasy to me. x.x

The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."

Your use of that word just blew my mind. #Kaboom #marryme