FFXIV Live Letter VI General Discussion

[Reika]

That's such a petty thing.. Out of all they showed today you guys gravitate to that little thing? I get the whole immersion factor, but some people want the game to be so immersible that it mimics real life TOO much, and too much so that most people whether they play casually or not would find too tedious. And in my opinion I find that, and I don't think this is the word I mean, pathetic. A game is supposed to be an escape and fun, not a second life where you live in a virtual world, and some of the things stress you just like the real world does. I don't really equate riding on a boat or an airship to that, but that was kind of regarding the mention of immersion being less focused on in ARR a few pages back.

---------
But anyway..
These live letters are just giant teases and it drives me nuts that I can't just hop on and play >:-O
Everything excites me about this game now and phase 3 we get to see the rest of the world and really get to see and experience what Naoki Yoshida is telling us to remain patient about.

One mans petty is another mans not-so-petty...

The "cost" is probably too high. Think about it, they would have to remake the entire world from a birds eye perspective and put it in a zone that you are only in for like 2-3 minutes. I think it is stupid that we will automatically be teleported on the airship considering we have anima to teleport wherever we want anyways.

I don't think it would need to be done any differently than it was done in XI. All they did, like 1.0's boat, was put you in a zone where you are above a low quality rendition of the portion of 'vanadiel' you were traveling over. It wasn't the same zone as the people doing stuff on the ground. You actually didn't see people or monsters, just the landscape you would actually be traveling over. I don't think it would be hard at all to do this.