Can we get an immersive mode without teleport?

[Ronduwil]

Some of you sound offended lol, didn't mean to offend anyone it was just a random thought I had. It's totally okay if you disagree, I wasn't criticizing the game for not having it or anything like that, it was just a random thought

That's because some of us came from WoW, and we laughed this idea off back in the day when a handful of crazy players demanded that Blizzard remove flying. The next thing you know, that became their go-to stance in the WoD expansion, and they've stood by ever since, to the point where even in the face of a chorus of boos over it at Blizzcon, they reaffirmed their commitment to withholding flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y22zkAwyZ0

Ion makes their position pretty clear with this statement, taken from the video: "If it annoys everyone a little bit, it's probably better than the alternatives."

It's not. You're seeing the alternative right now, which is a mass exodus of players from WoW to here. I guarantee that if Bozja suddenly became the model for all the new FFXIV areas going forward, I would no longer be pre-purchasing FFXIV expansions. If you want to walk, then walk. Don't impose that on the rest of us.

[Ath192]

That's because some of us came from WoW, and we laughed this idea off back in the day when a handful of crazy players demanded that Blizzard remove flying. The next thing you know, that became their go-to stance in the WoD expansion, and they've stood by ever since, to the point where even in the face of a chorus of boos over it at Blizzcon, they reaffirmed their commitment to withholding flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y22zkAwyZ0

Ion makes their position pretty clear with this statement, taken from the video: "If it annoys everyone a little bit, it's probably better than the alternatives."

It's not. You're seeing the alternative right now, which is a mass exodus of players from WoW to here. I guarantee that if Bozja suddenly became the model for all the new FFXIV areas going forward, I would no longer be pre-purchasing FFXIV expansions. If you want to walk, then walk. Don't impose that on the rest of us.

Your statement sounds like a warning of something that’s already in place. What is described in the YouTube video is exactly what FFXIV does right now. It grounds you until you are done with the zone. So XIV is already doing what WoW does.

[Vrankyl]

Your statement sounds like a warning of something that’s already in place. What is described in the YouTube video is exactly what FFXIV does right now. It grounds you until you are done with the zone. So XIV is already doing what WoW does.

It is and it isn't. In FFXIV you can fly immediately upon finishing off the story of the zone if you've been collecting the aether currents along the way. WoW you have to wait for at least the first major patch to fly. Shadowlands was the earliest WoW players have gotten to fly in a WoW expansion since before WoD. In BfA, Legion, and WoD you had to do a two part reputation grind achievement to unlock flying with the second part usually not coming out until the X.2 patch or later. It would be like us not being allowed to fly in new areas until around an X.3 or X.4 patch.

As for the thread topic, I have to echo others. Why waste dev time on something that you can simply do yourself? Not to mention this is not a Survival game, it was never meant to be a survival game, and I can't really think of any JRPG games off the top of my head that use survival game mechanics. That seems to be a very Western style of gaming.