Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Jaber]

Can you read? I ask because if you read my above post you would realize how much you just embarrassed yourself.

Popular games that focus on immersion, in their mechanics: Call of Duty's, Gears of War, majority of Final Fantasy, Lost odesy, FIFA, and NHL, all of these games use immersing their customers into a second reality where the person can visualized themselves there. Standing on an airship between cities is just a small part of the over all mechanic of immersion. If you don't like that then fine but don't get on your soap box and scream that all immersion is idle standing.

Now get out of that one track/over exaggerating mind set and maybe you can see that there can be more to a game then PEW PEW PEW.

You sir are confusing immersion with waiting.
The immersion in call of duty is not done by forcing you to sit in the back of a plane for fifteen minutes while you fly to a dropzone. The immersion in FIFA is not done by having the player wait in a locker room for half an hour while all the fans pour into the stadium(or at all, now that I think on it, since sports games are most always presented in a manner similar to watching a game on TV).
Likewise, the immersion in FFXIV does not benefit from excessive travel times or waiting on an airship, though it does simulate that experience quite well in that I'll end up playing a handheld game whether I'm waiting on an airship in-game or waiting on a plane in real life.