Theres a thing called anima

[Rokien]

But on an effort to stay on topic we're not going to see longer airship rides until 2.0. I'm pretty certain they already stated that they will be coming. Unfortunately the current system lacks the means to do it so that's why we just get the nice little CS boarding, leaving, and then arriving.

Pretty sure they said that they were coming in 1.x that's why I brought it up again.

[Bastok_Iamtheone]

I am constantly out of/low on anima. If SE made teleporting to the 3 main cities free, and added the 5 minutes airship ride for fun I wouldn't mind. As it is, when I want to be somewhere, I don't want to wait 10 minutes for the thing to show up and sit on it for 5 minutes to get to where I want to be and preserve "immersion". I want to play the game, not sit on a dumb airship all that time. After the first ride it is just dumb. I can go to the city IRL if I want to wait for public transportation. This is why I hated ffxi. Everything took forever. With this game I can long in, play for however long I want and leave. I like that.

Hello Wutai, this is from Hyperion server, you can use your RETURN, option in the different inns for free, to recharge anima points takes time about 4-6 hours on or off of FFXiv so SE, has made it up to you to judge how many to use.

Bastok

[Ruisu]

Pretty sure they said that they were coming in 1.x that's why I brought it up again.

No, they never said that. It'd be a waste of resources since 2.0 is going to bring in the new map designs.

[Maxthunder]

I play for entertainment, not a time sink. I don't get super involved with the dungeons because they take hours of setup(for success) and I don't have time for that. Riding the airship won't be much help for parties anyway except to meet in a certain city. for instance I would like to have my HP be Gridania, but with the market wards and most people staying in Uldah I just leave my HP there. If I have to wait for airship to meet my friends I will just teleport. If I have to wait 15 minutes to go check if an item is for sale I will just teleport. Adding the airship as a time sink is stupid, there are plenty of ways to waste time. I want to be entertained. It is call PLAYING for a reason.

1st off if you are out of animas do hamlet defense to regain your animas, its not hard. 2nd the airships should not be instant travel they need to do them like they did in 11. I dont see why every1 is in suck a rush, but yes airships and boats need to have realism and not some instant travel, thats what animas/teleports are for period.

[Maxthunder]

Its just sad overall: the continual simplification of the game by WoWtards and the subsequent whiteknighting of these activities by SE fanbois. But when there is no significant population boost, even after these sort of changes... well they still won't change probably. Too bad.

Anima- A pretty casual friendly function that greatly reduces feelings of tediousness in MMO transportation. Already altered to facilitate increased use. People then complain that it is not enough or not regenerating fast enough. SE adds an interesting gameplay function to add to your anima, that very few of the complainers use. Alternately, some people want it removed altogether. I'm not too sure why, as it had a decent cooldown and abusing it still takes effort and the use of anima-regenerating content.

Airship- Basically in the game as a sort of nostalgic throwback to oldstyle gameplay methods. Intended use for those who want to ration anima and those who enjoy the idea of riding an airship in their imaginary world.

So why bastardize the Airship by making it instant? Why remove Anima? Why fix something that isnt broke?

Because "we are trying to make it easier for WoW players to transition to FF14".

I think you just summed up exactly what is going on in FFXIV. It really is sad and unfortuntaly it will be the down fall of xiv.Reason I say that is if they continue to cater to casuals the mid core and hardcore players will dump xiv. Yes you will have a few midcore and hardcore players but not enough to support the game. I have said it before casuals support games in short term, and when they do leave normally they dont return. Now where as the midcore and hardcore players support games in the long run that is where most of the long term cash flow will come from not the casual base. Dont get me wrong I enjoy playing with all 3 types of players and its really sad whn players do leave and never return as there are friends lost.

Now on a side note some may say well look at WoW, but just because 1 or 2 games had tons of casual support and survived dosent mean that the next game like it will have the same support.