Teleport kills immersion

[Alahra]

You would need to do more than cut the ease of access strings to get people immersed in the world.

I'll agree with this for sure. FATEs and Hunts are sadly only really useful to players in cycles (often when a new weapon stage incorporates them or they add new rewards), which means there are long stretches of time where they don't receive much engagement. Treasure Maps haven't really ever been expanded either. I wouldn't mind seeing higher-level content that involved the open world in some way, using the same concept as Treasure Maps where it's only spawned for a particular party, so they could actually provide meaningful rewards beyond cosmetic things and crafting mats.

[CGMidlander]

Immersion be damned if it means removing teleport. lol

[Atoli]

Oh, forgot to answer the question about wanting more teleport points.
The answer is: ONE.
Just one. Lower La Noscea. Don't EVER make me walk to the area around the Dodo & sheep farm again >_>
Smaller settlements than that one have aetherytes! Why not this one? It's such a long treck away from any teleport point, and when you have to go there, it's usually before getting your own chocobo as well.
That always bothered me...

[_slowpoke_]

As someone who played a lot of WoW until a few years back: pretty much all players did literally everything to get around travelling times, including exploiting support features like the "unstuck" command (which was then changed as a response to this), (ab)using the dungeon port-stones and having their home location set to somewhere that had portals to the most important places in the world. Travel in WoW was boring and time-consuming, and you often just hopped on a flight-route, and alt-tabbed out for 10 minutes to do whatever, especially because flight routes took needlessly long, scenic routes - which was nice the first or second time, but got severely annoying after the next dozen times. It was the same with flying mounts - you basically just toggled auto-run and went afk for a few minutes. Same for the air-ships, ferries, and whatnot. I think some people just have serious rose-tinted retro-goggles about shit that MMORPGs did 10 years ago.

[Malakym]

Even NPCs use it. Roewna uses it too to get between her two out posts. If you noticed, there's a teleport crystal behind her in mor dona

... I have teleported from mor dhona directly to idyllyshire, noted seeing Rowena in both places and actually thought "how lazy to just have her in both places, how do they explain her being in both at once?" Feels bad. Orz

[MilesSaintboroguh]

... I have teleported from mor dhona directly to idyllyshire, noted seeing Rowena in both places and actually thought "how lazy to just have her in both places, how do they explain her being in both at once?" Feels bad. Orz

She tells you that she has an aetheryte in her Mor Dohna shop that lets her teleport to Idyllshire, that was in 3.1. In 3.0, she had to presumably walk and she complained how much of a pain it was.

[Arrius]

She tells you that she has an aetheryte in her Mor Dohna shop that lets her teleport to Idyllshire, that was in 3.1. In 3.0, she had to presumably walk and she complained how much of a pain it was.

Or perhaps, she is just still there in Revenants Toll due to the pre-HW timeline and being available for the quests where you need to talk to her for.

[dinnertime]

I kind of liked how Dravanian Hinterlands didn't have any aetherytes in the zone to teleport to, and your only options were getting in from Idyllshire, Coerthas Western Highlands or Dravanian Forelands.
Maybe that's why I like that zone so much, aside from being a temperate highland area (which fills that hole in my heart of missing 1.0 Coerthas dearly) and the music.

[Levi]

I dont want FFXIV to be unpopular again like in 1.x times. Teleports are good as it is.

[Chessala]

Apart from it being useful, did you even pay attention to the story? We are supposed to be able to ride the Aether (SPOILER: Thancred lost this ability when he managed to get out of the lifestream, which is why he was running around naked in nowhere), which means we can use this ability to "teleport" to places with an anchor - also known as AETHERITE.

Therefore, being able to teleport is part of the story and NOT having it would ruin immersion.