Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Kiote]

How bout we just dont let everyone traverse the entire world in under 5 seconds?

[weeble]

How bout we just dont let everyone traverse the entire world in under 5 seconds?

the first time, not every time for ever and ever for years of there lives, multiple times a day. i agree...first time

[IStolzI]

Even FFXI's Xarcarbard, which you site as a "remote place," has at least three insta-warps available (teleport crystal, outpost, and abyssea). You're just remembering it wrong.

Maybe we just played during different eras of the game, but when I played, Xarcabard was not easy to get to. Abyssea must be post-WoG, which doesn't really count. Outpost and Crystal both required you TO GET THERE ON YOUR OWN first. Which is fine by me, instant tele is fine if the FIRST TIME you go there is through travel. I remember being a 30RDM trying to unlock SMN and needed carbuncle to absorb ice or something like that. I took the pass through eastern ronfaure and it was an ADVENTURE. Not begging/paying someone to tele me there.

And yes, at lvl 25 in FFXIV I decided to turn down a tele to central mhor da to travel there on my own. I did have a lot of fun, but it wasn't the same. It never will be.