Fates and Open-world liveliness

[AshlikeSnow]

I like grinding fates for the challenge log its nice xp bonus plus I get to complete my Chocobo buddy challenge log entry at the same time. I always find it fun to see a packed population in Quarrymill for POTD, presently its one of the only times I get to hear that packed crowd conversation ambient. The duty finder is a feature that is a global standard in mmo's and it has a nice place but it also takes away Eorzea. In 1.0 you'd have to psychically travel to dungeons in order to enter them. Also the amount of zones that are separating each region in ARR really doesn't help immersion and so teleporting is a given. If Eorzea was a more seamless world like it was in 1.0 I'd definitely use my mount to travel through. I'm a big Elders fan and fast travel for me always takes away the immersion but seeing as how heavily zoned Eorzea is it doesn't really bother me anymore. Would be nice tho to mount up and ride through that long passage way up to the Zephyr gate in Limsa. Right now that passageway is not accessible and its too bad because its nice scenery.