Theres a thing called anima

[Kiote]

Stuff like,

This games world runs on a clock, it has day and night, there are time specific event that occur.

Being able to travel across the entire world instantly on a mechanism that does not possess that ability drastically diminishes the effectiveness of these fundamental systems.

If the land of Eorzea had instant travel airships they would be able to put down the empire, instantly.

[DNO]

You apparently don't see the point I'm trying to make.

No i see it but its stupid and makes no sense. everything does not make sense in a GAME and you should know that by now.

[Quanta]

LETS TAKE OUT GRAVITY.

The game doesn't have gravity. When you drop off a ledge, you instantly teleport to the ground.

[Shika]

It's a fantasy game, nothing has to make any sense whatsoever (and some of it doesn't!).

I don't see the problem with SE giving us options:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...378#post325378

If you want to experience in your opinion the full immersion of the game by taking 5-10mins to ride the airship you can; for others who this is not a game-breaking issue for they don't have to. Why are options bad? Do you really want everything in game to have no choices attached to it?

It's no different in my opinion to the enemy aggro icon and rank toggle on and off- if I want full "immersion" and feel that having this displayed on my screen I can toggle it off. If I feel like "actually I don't really care", then I can turn it back on. And having an icon and indicator to tell me what rank a mob is and whether it is aggressive does not "make sense" either, I mean we don't get this in real life do we? ^^

[Kiote]

You do understand, that by adding the "option" to ride the airship you are forcing the development teams hand to make all Airship based content yet again more instances right?

There will be no random battles and there will be no random NMs because you will have to plan on bringing a party on board the airship just to get enough people on it to participate. In fact it will probably become a completely guaranteed encounter. No more chance of a casual ride.

Yay for 100% instanced Final Fantasy

[Etienn]

Now, I'm only going to speak for myself here but I have to tell you. I don't find boat/airship rides that are longer then load screens immersive. they, in fact, are the opposite as I take the time imprisoned on them to make tea, phone calls or play with my cat.

People talk about immersion a lot without thinking of it as a personal experience much like fun. What is immersive for you is ruining immersion for me. So can people stop using it as a valid argument for one side of things or another? If they wanted me immersed in XIV they would get rid of the lag and take out all of the random farm animals doing nothing across the world. Maybe take out the copy paste and add some NPCs that travel the world.

That's why having both methods of transportation is a great thing. Even I enjoy riding them once, twice or even on a rare full moon. The rest of the time they kill my fun. Games shouldn't kill my fun =(

all mmorpg's had these features this is no the same dev team and even they would have made a 5-10 minute ride therefore get over it... you did not complain about ffxi's airships why now? this is not ffxi but immersion allows me to feel like i'm still playing a mmo, so you guys will lose.

Yoshi p! make a poll please or better yet get the mods to tell you to make the ride 20 minutes long just to spite the complainers.

[Charismatic]

You do understand, that by adding the "option" to ride the airship you are forcing the development teams hand to make all Airship based content yet again more instances right?

There will be no random battles and there will be no random NMs because you will have to plan on bringing a party on board the airship just to get enough people on it to participate.

Yay for 100% instanced Final Fantasy

Or the people who skip it can just miss out... idk.

[Rokien]

Those things are different. Its like the "check" deal on ffxi. Also as I've stated before, people will force me to instant travel, because they wouldn't want to wait for me, Shika. In the end the people who want immersion in the game kinda lose, till those other people leave.

[Etienn]

You do understand, that by adding the "option" to ride the airship you are forcing the development teams hand to make all Airship based content yet again more instances right?

There will be no random battles and there will be no random NMs because you will have to plan on bringing a party on board the airship just to get enough people on it to participate.

Yay for 100% instanced Final Fantasy

Well, they were already going o add the ride, which should be mandatory. So who really cares.

[Etienn]

Or the people who skip it can just miss out... idk.

there should be no skipping that is the point you guys just do not get. Easy mode, why must everything be handed to you guys?

I want immersion, why must you get option to skip would it be fair? yoshi already said this was temp tiill they make the ride your pleas fall on deaf ears.