they said first they would add the boat after..as in first the cutsceen only. then they said sorry we meant we will add boat latter but u will still have choice to skip the boat. from what i understand.... that is where we stand.

WE WILL BE ABLE TO SKIP THE BOAT. YAAAAY.

truthfully i still don't get what the big deal is, it's a boat ride to the city, the cities needed instant travel between the 3, the reason the cities are all empty is cause they take to long to run too. this will unite them better. outside this everyone still has option later to jump on the boat to fish, and do the content they add on it. u act like no one is gonna ride the boat, everyone will when there is reason too, people will stop riding it when it's pointless and they would of afk the whole ride anyway. 2min ..10min ...so what why would u want to force people that don't want to watch u emote the whole ride to do so.

it really doesn't take anything away from the game, i played ffxi for 700days of gameplay, i plan on playing this one just as much if it don't fail. i want it to be as punishing on content and grind as possible, but the whole boat ride thing is just ..... its just ..... i don't get what it is to you lol. is just a waist of time to me like any run longer then 5mins. i did looooooooots of running in ffxi, but it didn't feel punishing, taking them long runs to boyda were the longest runs, my fav probably still running to and threw dunes from crystal... 5mins? fun but a reason for it, u was running to camps. all running is for reason, not for repetition all day long. can't say this enough times. i want just as much a big world ...nothing handed to me, but the boat ride? come on. ...we don't even have content yet and we do enough running. in another 6-8months forget it, u'll be waisting 1-3hrs a day on running and boat rides if u play all day and are enjoying all of the content, and not being worried about doing things for 30mins here an 30mins there an not feel like your screwed on time, anima and aggravation.