Thread: Why did they changed this from version 1.0 ?

FFXIV ARR you can at least run somewhere without it being a majority of your gameplay.

I remember thinking how great running around to all the cutscenes for the story would be - then after running through the same copy-paste hallway multiple times through the same copy-paste scenery over and over just to reach another area full of copy-paste same hallways and copy-paste scenery to reach the NPC I was looking for - to be given a few lines of dialog and told to turn around and go back. All the quests had you running from nation to nation over and over and over and over just for a 5 minute cutscene to tell you to turn around and run back. You'd have spent days just running to complete a single quest that consisted of talking to about 5 NPCs (Ul'dah->Grid->Ul'dah->Limsa->Grid) and your reward was maybe one or two 5 minute cutscenes a little gil and more running! The "adventure" died off when you realized that if you just rotated the map in your head 90 degrees it was the same area you'd already explored 2 minutes ago, or two hours ago, or two days ago.

You never - ever - wasted a teleport because it was on a timer and consumed a resource (I can't remember the name anymore) that would refill so very slowly - you had to beat Ifrit or Garuda or otherwise take part in monotonous escort missions that were almost always being farmed and full just to use teleportation regularly!