Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[AlexNiculaie]

Honestly im wondering if the only reason we are getting insta airships is so the dev team can appease ppl and give them airships without doing any work at all.

Or, more rationally, it's a temp fix just like they have already stated, and they will later (after the map redesign) be made a full instance with content included. It's just a placeholder.

[Azurymber]

Or, more rationally, it's a temp fix just like they have already stated, and they will later (after the map redesign) be made a full instance with content included. It's just a placeholder.

where did they state that?
What they stated was that its instanced now, we will let you choose to "ride" it and pick how long it takes in the future (meaning there couldn't be content or if there was it would be like a private instance since you/your party can only ride yourselves)

i realize they say there will be airship related content but if your choosing your time then airship rides cant be public, so its another private instance... right?

[Jynx]

Or, more rationally, it's a temp fix just like they have already stated, and they will later (after the map redesign) be made a full instance with content included. It's just a placeholder.

I wonder why they bothered with spending the time making the airship cutscenes and everything though. A far more rational aproach would have just to set anima costs for City-City warps to 0 for the time being.