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[Pandastirfry]

It's a shame you didn't decide to experience much of the content the ferries actually offered such as pirate raids or killing the sea horror.

Airships themselves didn't have much use outside of their function but they did work as intended making the world maintain it's feeling of size and depth. Even if XIV is many times larger landmass wise than XI ever will be the fact that getting from Point A-B takes mere moments where in XI you had to consider where you were going and what was in store during the trip,

Airships didn't take long but long enough to make it feel like you were still traveling somewhere instead of just opening a door to a new area.

Presumptuous one aren't ya!

I did experience the Sea Horror and pirate raids, but yet again were fun only once you could actually participate, and again were far to random and repetitive to be a draw. If you make them more common, then they'll get just as annoying as the trip, to rare like XI and people will forget they exist, or just stay in the hold so they don't have to deal with it provided no one was a being a jerk and pulls them down there just to watch them kill people for shits and giggles

The airships/ferries didn't add to world depth, they felt like what the seemed like they always were, glorified loading screens.

To top all this off, when Mass Effect 1 had elevators that you "rode" it added the same sense of verisimilitude that you are arguing for with airships rides, however they were rightfully lambasted for being over long and flow breaking when the same thing could have been achieved during actual player interactive game play... So I have to ask... Why do we want the citadel's elevators? Is it because they look like boats here?