Quote Originally Posted by Larirawiel View Post
And this is a thing i love in WoW and i do not like so much in FF14. I like long distance traveling without instant teleports because it is immersive. When i accept a quest to collect something which is far away then i can understand the NPC why he will give me that quest. But if i must collect something and, thanks to the teleporters everywhere, i need only 30 seconds to complete that quest then i think: why doesn't the NPC collect the things himself? It is only 30 seconds away because he can use the teleporter.
Spoken as someone who doesn't remember the ARR storyline post 2.0. If all there was to complete remote quests was airships, ships at sea, and chocobo travel, players would have given up the second time they had to go from some MSQ quest location in La Noscea to the Waking Sands or Rising Stones.