XVI and XIV implications

[MoofiaBossVal]

Besides, if you made people walk/fly everywhere, the only thing that would happen is people would take the shortest possible route. They wouldn't explore the zones anyway.

In Final Fantasy XI, you might be running through a zone to your destination when you see (or hear about in shout chat) some powerful rare mob or notorious monster spawning, so you would detour to go fight him. There you would join a party, and after the mob died you might wind up helping some players out with whatever task they were pursuing.

[Shinkuno]

In Final Fantasy XI, you might be running through a zone to your destination when you see (or hear about in shout chat) some powerful rare mob or notorious monster spawning, so you would detour to go fight him. There you would join a party, and after the mob died you might wind up helping some players out with whatever task they were pursuing.

Or in WoW: you take a flight point, see a random treasure pop on your minimap so when you land you get on your mount and go there. Then you see a rare spawn while questing and go do that. Or you see a cave on the map and you go explore it because there may or may not be a secret in there. FF14 players are too used to static dumbed down gameplay i guess to ever imagine that. Its clear that most people that defend this game at this point just want to watch a TV Show without looking like a "lazy person that just sits on their couch watching tv all day" so they pretend there is any gameplay left in this "game".