Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[AmyRae]

Lots of people like feeling immersed, even if it means waiting in line for over 9000 hours..

There is a place where you can get that kind of immersion. It's called prison.

[User201109011315]

There is a place where you can get that kind of immersion. It's called prison.

Prison?

There's a place where you can get that kind of immersion. It's called MMOs.

Source:
http://www.archeage.com/en/contents/gameinfos/system/20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01feIIAlRjg

[Konachibi]

Prison?

There's a place where you can get that kind of immersion. It's called MMOs.

Source:
http://www.archeage.com/en/contents/gameinfos/system/20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01feIIAlRjg

I can think of another place. It's called 'outside'.

[Renshi]

I can think of another place. It's called 'outside'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1CL2zl0jA#at=4
DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT WORD AGAIN!

nah, I'm jokin'! Anyway, immersion can't be broken by a mere Loading screen (instant teleportation is that). Look at WoW, it has loading screens but they don't break your immersion in the game.
It's the LAST thing that breaks immersion. What really breaks immersion is the alarm that says Go To School or Go To Eat and that makes you go like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- so you have to wait to play with your teeth cringing of despair, and sh*t, and yeah I'm stupid. Is there any d*ck around?

[AmyRae]

Prison?

There's a place where you can get that kind of immersion. It's called MMOs.

Source:
http://www.archeage.com/en/contents/gameinfos/system/20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01feIIAlRjg

Actually, it couldn't be that immersive or you'd still be staring at that MMO. 9000 hours works out to be just over a year. Hope you brought enough to eat!

[User201109011315]

I formed more attachment to the world back when everything was time consuming and you had to stay in your crafting guild/ran out of anima/had to play the market wards.

I don't think FFXIV should go back to the way it was, but I think it's too meaningless now.

[Konachibi]

I formed more attachment to the world back when everything was time consuming and you had to stay in your crafting guild/ran out of anima/had to play the market wards.

I don't think FFXIV should go back to the way it was, but I think it's too meaningless now.

You've made a surprisingly good post. I'm almost shocked

The reason you could be feeling this 'meaningless' is because the game is in the middle of it's reworking by the devs. The devs can't just make the game go from 'Tanaka mode' > 'Yoshi mode', it takes a lot of time and patches to rebuild a 15gb online game that's already live.

Least to say in a few patches when it's all reworked, it'll be a lot better than the limbo state we're in at the moment, and yes, will possess much more potential to 'immerse' the player in the game.

[Azurymber]

You've made a surprisingly good post. I'm almost shocked

The reason you could be feeling this 'meaningless' is because the game is in the middle of it's reworking by the devs. The devs can't just make the game go from 'Tanaka mode' > 'Yoshi mode', it takes a lot of time and patches to rebuild a 15gb online game that's already live.

Least to say in a few patches when it's all reworked, it'll be a lot better than the limbo state we're in at the moment, and yes, will possess much more potential to 'immerse' the player in the game.

have devs actually set a time for when "reworking" is over? Because we've been int he middle of reworking for a year now, and its an MMO, so by definition arent they always reworking it?

[Konachibi]

Nope when they're done reworking then they start adding and tweaking.

I personally think the reworking will be done around the time of patch 1.21 when the job system is released. From the change plan Yoshi posted most of the major restructuring will be finished around about then with other stuff ongoing, but the ongoing stuff is the kind of things MMO's are always constantly tweaking.

I'd say given that it took 5 years to develop the initial incarnation of this game, rebuilding it in just over a year is pretty impressive. After all, it took Blizzard something like 2 years just to develop Cataclysm and that mostly only changed the games map with a few class tweaks, S.E have had to pretty much redesign all the games mechanics from the ground up, and from what it would appear they will eventually be changing the map too since everyone has been complaining about the 'copy&paste' enviroment.

[Gazille]

So many people with their heads up their ass, fast travel is lame and only bads who want to get everywhere in seconds would like fast travel. Screw you guys for taking the fun out of my games