Quote Originally Posted by viion View Post
I complete agree with the bold statements.

The thing is people will still explore, a new player would typically:

- Start in starting nation and explore/level through leves. They have to run there because they cant tele and unless they get one free they dont have money to shout for a tele to the closest camp. They may do even up to third camp at station nation.

- By now they've collected gil, explored 3/5 zones in a region that are just as identical as each other and now they want to move to another area, say Grid to Uldah.

- Half of them will run it in thinking they want to explore or that they need to or do it instinctively.

- Other half will hop on the instant Airship. Now that they are there they will go and continue adventuring, doing quests and so fourth and then maybe they lv to 30 to and visit caves, then 40 they over at broken water.

So by just that they've explored and visited all the zones that are between Uldah and Grid haha. So no experience lost, just experienced it differently.

If people want to explore, they will, and while I agree it should be at a certain level you get instant, i'd rather have airships now than have them delay it and much would favor that and sadly highest wins haha.

Not to mention XIV is currently not exactly springing with new people right now and so when the day comes new people join they might not skip cutscene and they might be forced to do it manually, and eventually they will be content on the ships that force people to be active in them to receive xyz so people not going to skip a chance of that.
i agree with all that. cept kinda the way you say ppl will go about levelling. Since you can only get guild marks from the specific city now my friends (like 5 or 6 i convinced to get the game) have essentially just gotten free warps city to city when starting the game, or did a full run (ex, gridania to limsa) right off the get go or within the first few days. All of them have gotten bored, said the games a grindfest with no future and left. But im sure some ppl do it your way too. Regardless, right now it doesnt give you that adventuring feel that other MMOs give. and hopefully they will address that before PS3 release