Quote Originally Posted by Delirium View Post
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.