Yo Yosh, Can you please disable the ability to teleport?

[ErBear]

Apparently "this function" is called as air-ships just bcoz it is FF. ^^;
Actually they can just turn the air-ship into a device for teleporting between 3 countries (in fact now it is),
At the moment I will suggest everyone just consider "air-ship" as an event of the main story quest (lv20?) ^^;

I'm shocked you are the only person to even bring up airships during this whole thing. Thank you!

And to some people above me:

To the person whom I made cringe, you must be new here, I've done my threads like that since there was even a forum for FFXIV, I don't even have to do that, people will still know who I am. So, please get over yourself.

Mugiawara: I don't play the game anymore, I'm just checking up to see how it is progressing, though, slowly, seems like it's made improvements.

Zephyr:
You are definitely not seeing the bigger picture here.

Ok, how about we do this, lets make every game from now on and make it linear, no open world, nothing to explore, would you like that? The fact you are playing an mmo suggests other wise. So, if you say there is no point in traversing the world, why even have a world there in the first place?

You talk about time constraints, why even grind out gear? Why even level? There's many things that can be tedious and pointless to people, traveling to you is one of those things, but for me and others it makes the world that much more enjoyable.
You will probably now say, don't force your style of play onto me... Well what about those people who don't like to get the best gear, yet you won't invite them to your parties unless they do? Or what about those people who don't like to level up other classes and they are lacking abilities but their linkshell or other people force them to do so. So when you people stop telling others how to play a game, I will try and stop making a game change that is actually good for the longevity of a video game and overall health of it.

And this and many others who are trying to give suggestions see that big picture:

I think the OP is more referring to what consequences the ease of travel place on content in place, rather than what he would like to do (or see others do) personally. Difficulty in commute can have a lot of positive effects, even if not particularly well received. It would stimulate the economy, reduce RMT activity, encourage camping over exploitation... An open 'world' is less a world and more like a group of rooms that all connect to one another as it stands. And less immediate transport would undoubtedly do a lot to change that.

[ErBear]

I read a book by a successful game designer who said, "Walking is not gameplay."

You guys can ride your chocobos around Eorzea to your heart's content, while the rest of us are having fun in dungeons because we saved time using teleport.

Ok, have fun doing those dungeons without walking or running, please, if I ever come back to this game and I see you move, I'm going to call you out on it. every part of a game is gameplay. You are playing a game, if you press a, b, c, or box doesn't matter what happens on screen you are playing with it.

[IamBenpi]

Wait, you don't even play the game, and yet you still want to force your idea of what a fun play style is on everyone who does actually play the game. Do you know what it means to obtrude? That's exactly what you're doing.

I suppose someday if I love long enough to see real life teleportation become a reality (if of course it ever does) I'll see you on a street corner shouting out how the world is too small...

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

How would this stop RMT? RMT is going to exist either way.

If you're worried about gil, I don't know, actually PLAY the game? It's hard NOT to make gil.

[Adler]

I have explored the world of ARR and if I'm not in a hurry then I usually just use my mount to travel around.
Teleportation cost gil and is your solution to get somewhere fast when you need to get to gathering node, hunt mark or anything else and don't have time to walk through half of Eorzea.
OP is asking to get rid of teleportation to get the game world seem bigger?!? Could simply honestly admit that he doesn't like that obviously someone got to NM faster because of teleporting.
"Teleporting makes world feel smaller" is pretty stupid argument. Get your job and then you will realize that you don't have so much time to "explore the world" anymore.

[OPneedNerfs]

Start a new character and go through it without teleporting. Let's hear your opinion then.

[ruskie]

Frankly with hunts I've seen way too much of the zones so far(I port into a zone then run around the possible mark spawn points for an hour or two) so running through them just to get there no thanks. I do agree that some zones with 2 aetherytes don't make much sense. But as much as people complain about how small a world it is - it doesn't feel to me - to me it's more along the lines of the zones being just right - anything bigger it would feel to big and anything smaller would feel small.

Would I like to see duration air ship travel... yes. But I think for that there needs to be some lore stuff sorted first - as it is air ship travel is dangerous so the fast port around makes atelast some sense - trying to get from A to B as fast as possible - wouldn't be much to see etc...

[Yumi_umi]

In the original version of the game teleport cost Anima, a sole resource dedicated to teleport, you could only had 100 anima, and teleport costs where as theya re now, the further you wished to teleport, the more expensive it was. The only way to recover anima was by letting time go by, and if I don't recall badly it was 1 anima point each 6h, so you had to manage how often you teleported.

Sounds reasonable imo lol
wonder y SE changed it, was it cuz ppl QQd so hard ?

[Yahavage]

I don't play the game anymore, I'm just checking up to see how it is progressing, though, slowly, seems like it's made improvements.

9 pages for this? Ugh.

And to echo what so many people have already said, nothing stops you from not using teleport. After I get home from work, I usually workout, then after that I have to sort out food... sometimes I have 1-2 hours tops to play, I don't want to spend it running around. No-one is forcing you to teleport anywhere if you would rather run around!

[Arkine]

I like the XI system where there are like 6 major teleports in the world, and you have to hoof it from there to any place you need to go.