Airship Fees

[Zenaku]

Are you saying you don't want airships to be free, I don't understand? If you don't agree with me you have to tell me why free airship rides would make this game worse.

They have to be a money sink just how they most be a time sink for everything. If everyone have over 50mil and not wasting it on anything due to the fact you could level craft yourself then they going to be issue. If i remember right Games have a limit amount of money and when you buy something from a npc that money goes to "Mobs drop,NPC reward" and so on.

It should not be free i got pretty sad when the ship in ffxi was free at least make it 300gil lol. and airship are fine at 5k and now repair for high level gear is also 5k so that not bad at least the npc are getting it and not players.

[MystinaValeth]

Why must we pay to use the airship

Why must we pay a taxi to get to work in real life?

Anyways, SE just gave us rental chocobos, personal chocobos, and airships,.. we also have teleports too. The airship fees are rather cheap, if you can’t afford the airship fees then find another way to get around, you have plenty of options ^^ 5k is nothing to complain about

[Delirium]

As of right now they need to suck gil out of the players in order to fight inflation, stabilize the economy and the prices of items.

Are you saying you are a high level and you feel like your gil is growing so out of control that you need to be charged to fly on the airship lest you, uncontrollably, develop hazardous(as in inflation causing) spending habits? Because that's sounds ridiculous to me, and unless you are in that situation and feel that way, or know someone that is, I can't possibly imagine how you know that inflation is such a problem.

[Delirium]

Why must we pay a taxi to get to work in real life?

Anyways, SE just gave us rental chocobos, personal chocobos, and airships,.. we also have teleports too. The airship fees are rather cheap, if you can’t afford the airship fees then find another way to get around, you have plenty of options ^^ 5k is nothing to complain about

You pay for a taxi because you're paying a real person to do you a service in real life you doorknob. This is a ship that like flies non-stop on a regular circuit, passengers aboard or no. Why should it cost anything?

Is even a 5000 gil fee going to stop inflation from someone, we're apparently assuming, as make fortunes up to 50mil? I don't think so. It's either a pointless solution, or a fake problem. One of the two. I've heard nothing so far to dissuade me either.

Plus for those of you claiming WoW zeppelins were useless after low levels, you may recall that transported you from the 1-70 to the 70-80 zones. A little bit important, not just at the start of the game.
The only time you paid was for rentals which were very cheap and phenomenally more useful than these airships, or your own mounts which were even faster than those, and they were both way the hell faster than chocobos, I'd wager.

[Zenaku]

You pay for a taxi because you're paying a real person to do you a service in real life you doorknob. This is a ship that like flies non-stop on a regular circuit, passengers aboard or no. Why should it cost anything?

Is even a 5000 gil fee going to stop inflation from someone, we're apparently assuming, as make fortunes up to 50mil? I don't think so. It's either a pointless solution, or a fake problem. One of the two. I've heard nothing so far to dissuade me either.

Plus for those of you claiming WoW zeppelins were useless after low levels, you may recall that transported you from the 1-70 to the 70-80 zones. A little bit important, not just at the start of the game.
The only time you paid was for rentals which were very cheap and phenomenally more useful than these airships, or your own mounts which were even faster than those, and they were both way the hell faster than chocobos, I'd wager.

because the NPC are doing you a service? everything in the game can't be free you know.

[MystinaValeth]

You pay for a taxi because you're paying a real person to do you a service in real life you doorknob. This is a ship that like flies non-stop on a regular circuit, passengers aboard or no. Why should it cost anything?

Ah so your saying that unlike the ships in FFXIV, nothing in real life runs 24/7, weather or not there are customers...? cause I think the city bus where I live runs 24/7 lol... and WOW I can't beleive you are complaining about 5k.. I guess its impossible for SE to satisfy everyone >.>; grow up lol

[Delirium]

because the NPC are doing you a service? everything in the game can't be free you know.

You should just stop making dumb posts you troll. It's an NPC, his children aren't going to starve if SE makes airships free. Because he doesn't have any. Because he's not real. Get it yet? Nothing is going to go wrong with your game world if airships are free.

I never once said, or even hinted, that anything more than airships should be free. So I don't even know why you threw that in there. But tell me why this can't be free. Tell me what you're worried will go wrong? Other than, supposedly, ruining this NPCs life by not paying him. For it seems to me that these airships could simply be a service the cities do for there inhabitants. Free tranportation exists in reality too, you do realize?

[nasomi]

I guess no one is considering the fact that you don't have to spend 3 days on an airship license?

[Ayaseth]

Chocobos and airships in their current state might not be up to par in every players opinion, but at least we have them. What did we have about a week ago? Walking everywhere on foot and fighting to be resourceful with Anima. Its not going to stop inflation, especially since many players have small fortunes, as you yourself recognize. Look at it this way: You have traveling options.

Don't ride the airship if the fees are too much..use Anima or rent a chocobo(its far cheaper). Its not the end all be all of fixing the economy and I don't believe its meant to be the most epic of gil sinks.

Edit: To answer your question directly OP, you still have free travel~ Walking on foot and teleportation which cost you no gil. Also after you get your license, which again cost you no gil, you can travel for free via chocobo. With the airship, you are being charged for convenience. When it takes off, your are 'instantly' taken to your destination..you don't even have to actually wait a 'riding time'. Its not trolling to say everything in the game can't be free, its fact.

We cried for options in traveling Eorzea, SE has given us 2 great traveling options. When one drop from a mob can npc for up to 500gil, and the maximum cost for the airship being 5k gil..I'm sorry but I just can't be bothered to care that I'm being charged. Give them time, this is the least of the games problems at this time.

[Delirium]

Chocobos and airships in their current state might not be up to par in every players opinion, but at least we have them. What did we have about a week ago? Walking everywhere on foot and fighting to be resourceful with Anima. Its not going to stop inflation, especially since many players have small fortunes, as you yourself recognize. Look at it this way: You have traveling options.

Don't ride the airship if the fees are too much..use Anima or rent a chocobo(its far cheaper). Its not the end all be all of fixing the economy and I don't believe its meant to be the most epic of gil sinks.

Edit: To answer your question directly OP, you still have free travel~ Walking on foot and teleportation which cost you no gil. Also after you get your license, which again cost you no gil, you can travel for free via chocobo. With the airship, you are being charged for convenience. Its not trolling to say everything in the game can't be free, its fact.

We cried for options in traveling the Eorzea, SE has given us 2 great traveling options. When one drop from a mob can npc for up to 500gil, and the maximum cost for the airship being 5k gil..I'm sorry but I just can't be bothered to care that I'm being charged. Give them time, this is the least of the games problems at this time.

I will give them time, what I'm try to say is that we deserve better than this. Also I would like if they implemented airship license through a quest as an alternative to fees.