Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Shika]

Personally for me it does not spoil my sense of immersion. If I have time and am not in any particular rush I run wherever I need to go and conserve my anima. This way I get to see the scenery along the way; when we get chocobos this type of travel- i.e. not just porting with anima- may become more popular and players will see more of the world and feel "part" of it.

If I'm in a hurry when they release the airships then I will take this option instead (along with using anima, depending on where I need to get to obviously), and having it arrive instantly is not going to spoil my gameplay. To me it will just have the same feel as teleporting- or any other type of outpost, assault or BCNM warping to a dungeon or area that there was in FFXI. If they want to put a 5min or 10min timer on it in the future fine- I'll just go and pop the kettle on

[Altano]

when we get chocobos this type of travel- i.e. not just porting with anima- may become more popular and players will see more of the world and feel "part" of it.

You're lying to yourself. After all, the only people who walk nowadays (as has been pointed out countless time in this and other threads) are those who are out of anima or those who try to ration it. Airships will cost a gil fee...which has no meaning because gil is a joke to come by in this game. So really it will be instairship to city, set home point in city, do quest/leve/behest/whatever, free return to city, instairship elsewhere. Chocobos will not change that one bit. Seriously let's just delete 90% of the map and instance everything else at this point.

[Shika]

You're lying to yourself. After all, the only people who walk nowadays (as has been pointed out countless time in this and other threads) are those who are out of anima or those who try to ration it.

Not necessarily, hell there a plenty of people making threads about "immersion" and the feeling of realism within the game on the forums at the moment. Some people do play to take in more than just instant warping all over the place. Hell I may be in the minority, but I know in FFXI I used chocobos and the airships just as much as I did teleports