Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Rhomagus]

Some people do! I understand it's boring, you want to travel fast yadda yadda. You want more options. You already have that option. I actually play that way sometimes, it is called anima.

So are you an elitist because your so selfish that you still want to have another way to instant travel, even after I explained how it's breaking immersion for some and you already have that option at your disposal?

99 of them to be exact? Now who is selfish? The person who wants to keep immersion or the person who couldn't use their anima wisely and now wants to convert a ride into an instant transport for their personal time sensitive needs?

Answer: No he's not.

I actually don't need to explain this. It is self evident and you should've realized this before posting.

It's actually 100 anima as well, so ya, not exactly.

[Rhomagus]

Elitism was brought up referring to me attempting to force my strong belief upon the people whos opinion differs.

There is a reason why I feel so strong about my opinion, this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, this is for everyone in favor of having this skip travel option.

Gennosuku elaborated earlier, I'm continuing.

An MMORPG is a virtual game world that emulates aspects of a real world; An important pillar of a worlds characteristics, that define it, is it's vastness.

Time, Speed and Distance are all relative in measuring how vast a world is.

The Time it takes to travel a Distance depends upon Speed.

Faster Speed = less Time over a distance, slower Speed = more Time over the same Distance. Distance, the only variable that remained constant, helps describe vast.

Airships are a method of transportation the devs are invoking for a faster-than-walking means of traversing Eorzea distances. They help provide the feeling of a vast world.

If the lore stated airships were an instant means of transportation, then I can't speak no more, but in keeping with the basic logic of an airship, it's supposed to take time. It justifies that space is actually being traversed. Wanting the basics of an airship is not shallow nor does it cancel out the possibility of adding further content to it.

This option is saying...you don't have to spend time to travel between point a and point b, since it doesn't really exist, but you can travel this "mirage of a distance" if you want to. Taking away that distance is simultaneously removing the sense of vast in Eorzea. Kudos to the people who can comprehend how that can make some feel dumb if we actually don't skip it.

Yes, we know it's a game & nothing is real, but for me trying to be immersed in a game world, this simply breaks it and the virtual game world illusion. For those wanting to just play a game, not so much at all. That is how having this option ruins it.

It may not bother some peoples immersion, but you definitely can't say it shouldn't bother mine.

I'm only keeping inline with what an MMORPG is supposed to be, a virtual game world with in-game time, the existence of traversable distance (be it Anima, chocobo, airship, walking) to substantiate its massiveness (thank you Rhomagus for the correction), weather changes, exotic creatures to fight and people to experience and have fun with.

If I'm an elitist for trying to apply this....

So be it.

Read this post: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post334746 It was edited before your post was made. You'll find a lot of information in there, including what an MMO should be, particularly Yoshida's opinion on it.

[Azurymber]

i think if they make airships instant there should at least be lore as to why its instant.
ex. the anima faeries blessed it with atheryte powers and it can now instawarp anywhere
and it should break sometimes and warp you upside down in the sky and then you get to watch your character fall down and die

[Konachibi]

i think if they make airships instant there should at least be lore as to why its instant.
ex. the anima faeries blessed it with atheryte powers and it can now instawarp anywhere
and it should break sometimes and warp you upside down in the sky and then you get to watch your character fall down and die

Ah I see
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[Azurymber]

Ah I see
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here's a possible answer.

that would work :]

[Konachibi]

that would work :]

*wins!*

[Bled]

*wins!*

tip of the hat to you

[Gennosuke]

Ah I see
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here's a possible answer.

Haha.. Well, lemme give you some credit for that, that actually makes more sense than any other justification used so far for insta-airships.

[Konachibi]

Haha.. Well, lemme give you some credit for that, that actually makes more sense than any other justification used so far for insta-airships.

This game does often feature light-hearted and silly comedy moments sometimes, so I figured, "why couldn't this be one of them?"

It's a ridiculous theory, but I can very easily see an Elezen being fired from an airship into the forests of Black Shroud and slamming into a tree, before slowly sliding down it in a typical cartoon way to the groan of "uuurgh, damned Lalafell mechanics!"

[Rhomagus]

I have not read any posts between #718 and #728. If you've made responses and you feel the edited post effects those responses please edit them accordingly or point them out if I mistake later.

The newly updated post can be found here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post334746