Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Neptune]

I'm a little surprised you're bringing this up. For me immersion only happens initially with new content. The new becomes old. And when the new is old, it's time for fast travel. When the old becomes new, it's time for a stroll. Nothing stopping anyone from doing that.

[Azurymber]

I'm a little surprised you're bringing this up. For me immersion only happens initially with new content. The new becomes old. And when the new is old, it's time for fast travel. When the old becomes new, it's time for a stroll. Nothing stopping anyone from doing that.

but people who need to do the final missions lets say are just payin ppl in town to port them and not getting to mor'dona themselves. or people who start in gridania just shout for a port to ul'dah.

Let me put in another way. FFXI made you work to get places. You couldnt just run around the entire world in a day. When you leveled up you felt a sense of accomplishment because now you could venture out further into the world.

FFXIV is like giving you a cheat code when you start the game that lets you /invincible and go anywhere and get ported wherever you want. When you level up theres no real sense of accomplishment because there isnt anything new to do really. Even the missions are like that. You can do every mission with a rank 1 job.

The airship part just further adds to that problem because it makes the world seem smaller. Why even call it an airship if all it is, is a paid anima port.....

And areeya im pretty sure they said they are making it instant and in the future they will let people CHOOSE if they want to take a ride. So it sounds like it will -always- be instant and their plan to appease the complainers is to let them pick if they wanna see a ride and how long it should be.

[Neptune]

but people who need to do the final missions lets say are just payin ppl in town to port them and not getting to mor'dona themselves. or people who start in gridania just shout for a port to ul'dah.

People are just short changing themselves. These are presumably the kind of people who don't appreciate the kind of gameplay you do anyway. Unfortunately there's no way to make them appreciate taking their time in the game and really enjoying it. I find that the game offers a good mix between pure enjoyment and something for those of no patience.