umm, no thanks, is funny that the battle between time sink or casual or hardcore or grind or whatever else in the mmo world is a losing battle to easyness but then there are people like you that ask the world to walk everywhere like they don't got anything better to do. ffxiv isn't the first game to be streamless, and it's not a big deal and it doesn't change gameplay at all.

yes i did my fare share of running in ffxi, lots and lots of running and choco'ing and making coffee afk on boats. but it was all very centered. u didn't have to start from sandoria every time u wanted to all way to beaucidean or whatever. they had tele's right dab in middle. on top that choco's at every tele and we had a cool thing called op's where u can just port there. it was lots of running but it didn't feel like a time sink like in this game.

personally i think they need make anima not cost any points but ...they should only make some crystals portable to. like being able to port to bloodshore and bald knoll = the 2 for limsa, then from there u gotta run, or choco. it is centered more that way.

besides have u seen some of the spots where the streamless zones in, like the birds camp where players solo or duo by bw, all the birds are right where it streams and they are invisible for a good while. infact u can run threw all 10birds and not agro cause u'r going threw this so called streamless world lol. i dunno i don't see a big deal bout streamless, it's even worse for pvp games, like in warhammer there streamless zones u get lag as u pass threw it and is stupid if u end up breaking into a battle there.