Theres a thing called anima

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

im OK with riding the ship only if there is a chance of something happening

for example a garlean airship starts a hijacking and we must stop it, this hijacking difficulty depends on the number of players currently on the ship, this way its not to hard if there are only 2 players but not to easy if there are 15 players.

there is no need for a 5 min ride, yeah immersion you say, but after your 3rd ride im 100% sure you will be watching something on TV or youtube while the ride finishes.

[Zantetsuken]

Both are neccessary.

Anima is for casuals who won't run out of it nearly as fast.. and won't have as much gil either.
Airships are for hardcore who will be low on anima but have lots of gil - From the tone of Yoshida's comments I'm guessing airship tickets to cost 20k or more.

I think its a great system that helps reinforce FFXIV's 'all-of-the-above' approach to playstyles.

[Kiote]

This is baffling to me. How can you want to play an MMO and not want a World to explore. That is the point of the Genre. A massive world that you can literally get lost in. Your not supposed to be able to teleport every where. The societies are supposed to have functioning mechanics. How is being able to hop from town to town in seconds in any way fun? It just makes the game even more pathetically simple than it already was.

This game takes place in an era in which the skies are littered with enemy war ships. How can it be even remotely possible to have a blind casual ride to the next town without some fear of attack? It doesn't make sense, it detracts from the worlds immersion , and it's incredibly lazy. We already have instant transportation. No other MMO ever made has ever catered so much to the lazy people who can put in five minutes to walk to where they need to be.

The whole concept of instant Airship is pathetic.

[Isaveron]

Once the novelty wears off, people will just want to get to their location as quickly as possible. I know a few weeks after my first airship ride in XI, I would just afk until the ride was over.

[KiriA500]

I plan on using both when they're available. I will still use Anima when I'm pressed for time, such as doing Guildleve's with my Linkshell buddies. I will use the airships most other times.

I already run everywhere as it is, as I love feeling like the world is a vast, open place...not just areas I have to go to in order to punch things for experience. Yeah, it takes forever to run from Limsa Lominsa to Gridania...so what, I love the scenery the entire time, so I don't care.

I also, personally, want the airship itself to take time while riding it. I still remember my first airship ride in Final Fantasy XI. It was amazing! The sight of the clouds over the mountains as I flew home to Bastok alone made the entire thing worth it (getting to Rank 5 about a month after North American PC release, wasn't exactly easy to do at the time). I want to take in all the sights of Eorzea just like I did with Vana'diel. Square-Enix spent a lot of time (lol) modeling the entire world...I think it's kind of sad that hardly anybody wants to actually explore it...they just want to get around as quick as possible.

[weeble]

my anima runs out using it in like one day, sorry but instant rides to city to city will help alot. i will go on the boat yeah ...when i feel like it the few first times. and maybe if they put good fish on it and add mobs to kill. i won't for just sitting there afk cause i'm not staring at the water and sky for 10mins while emoting. sry.

in ffxi, i got teleports and teleported myself a good 10-20times a day easily, u still did lots and lots of running. just cause some of u only play a handfull of hours a week don't mean u gotta force people to walk or wait on boats. that's called punishment. other day i managed to bring my anima up to 72 (cause all i did was craft in city and just flights for my 2leve spots for dol) in 2days i droped it to 28anima's cause actually was doing things that day.... that is no joke. i didn't waist it on anything dumb neither. just using it in places where u would of ran 10-20mins to get to spots.

managing anima shouldn't be part of the game. running to the important part of where u'r heading is good enough, and surely not being on a boat afk either. what ever high u get from the boat is lost quickly after. i get running threw hoards of mobs, ducking and weaving or sneak and invis, but the boat is seemingly pointless when u got some other things u want to do and using it as an A to B thing. there will be new types of transports, but i'm sure even then most would rather chose to go the long route on boat or not. let us chose, there will be times we sit on it. i know i did have some good times on it, but after awhile it was just my coffee and stare into the tv time.

[Rokien]

@AreeyaJaidee Yes Iv seen em, and been in em HERE
@Everyone else I play almost every day, I always am above 70 anima. So, I don't get how you guys are always low on anima, maybe you should try running to places.
@Sephrick Yes because that's how I wanna play. You got a problem? Ya i know its called anima.... You should read the title of my thread. Yep and its my personal choice to ride it every single time. Thank you for pointing that out.
@At everyoneelse again Whats so wrong with a 1-2min ride? It will take you one minute just to load up anyways(cant insta that ) Also, CHOCOBOS are coming as well, you wont be needing your anima as much anyways. So the trips that you used that anima for(City to horizon, black brush, drybone, all the close camps), can now be used to travel from city to city. *GENIUS*

[weeble]

well in reality i'd rather take the boat then choco, like in ffxi i took the afk ride on boat even if i knew i could choco in half the time, only reason is i used it for afk. rather be afk 5-10mins then run diligently paying attention with controller in hand for even 2-5mins lololol. that's just me though.

if u running everywhere, u must be literally wasting 2-3hrs a day on it, ...that is something not willing to do. take a stop watch and do all u'r times running where u could of ported and tell me what your time waste is after a week. and i betting u not doing much on top of that, games not got much content, can u imagine later when there is 50nm's an multiple events to do every day and u have the only option to run. lol yeah right.

also exploring? what u mean stare at each an every intricate pixeled flower in the game? u explore to find nm's, u explore to get ??? with something in them for quests, you explore cause the game takes u to places, or want to maybe see all the games zones one time real quick. i don't get how running around like an idiot every day equats to exploring, your not gonna find a big trail of ants eatign up a dead bug in the game to stare at for an hour.

in ffxi u did exploring, heck new expansion comes out everyone that loaded into the game was running threw the new zones trying to find the new nm's and things to see. fact that was fun and u grouped up just to do it. sitting on a boat or running 5mins 2-3 times in a row to same spot for a leve cause u gotta go back and forth to city doesn't equal exploring.

[DeadRiser]

Now I'm butthurt. Options aren't always a good thing.

If they keep up with this bending to what every crowd wants... Square just needs to make their own decisions

[Kiote]

Whats the point of a game where nothing requires anything ever. No Time needed, No Skill needed, No Cost required, it's pathetic.