Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
I believe what people are actually saying is they want immersion and having a way around immersion effectively kills immersion.

The fact is between Mounts and Airships for the times when you are not in a rush there will be no excuse for having 0 anima. The only people who I know of that run out of anima are people teleport absolutely everywhere. Anima is in the game to stop them from doing that. What then would be the point of putting in another way to instantly move what equates to hundreds of miles instantly. Its not like they can just pretend you didn't get there instantly by forcing the game time forward. It kills immersion just by being in the game and it kills any sense of realism in the world.
You're missing something important. People who use Anima use it to get somewhere quickly. Key word being "quickly". Now say they add no instant option for Airships and keep Ferry as it is. You couldn't go anywhere on either option "quickly" it would take at least 10 minutes for the Ferry as that's how long the ride itself takes, not counting the walk there.

Because they're not going to want to wait 10 minutes or more to get somewhere, they use Anima. Right? So when they run out of Anima, what are they gonna do? They AREN'T going to suck it up all of a sudden and use the long option. Most people are going to get a teleport from someone else at the cost of Gil, typically. What does that sound like? An instant travel option on the airship. And not even, because the airship will likely be limited to main towns and a few other areas.

Having options that don't offer the same or even close to the convenience as the method currently being used means the people will keep using the old method. So then airships become useless for a good deal of people, because the number of folks using Anima who don't care about immersion is likely not small.

Once again, I go back to what I said earlier; people who are against freedom of choice seem more like they just want to have their way, and their way only, the other people be damned. Or rather, like they want it their way with "full immersion" and WANT the other guys who want instant travel to be screwed over, like they get their jollies out of it. That type of thinking is honestly quite petty.