Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Rhomagus]

Human nature; present a caveman with magically cooked chicken that appears before him or force him to hunt, then kill, then find a way to cook the chicken. Of course the cave man would choose the magical cooked chicken appearing before his eyes, however guess what he had to hunt, then kill, then find a way to cook the chicken. So because the cave man had to take the hard road he learned more along the way like fire, hunting, skinning, bone craving, weapon making. Can you stop and even imagine where we would be today if everything was just given to us!?!?

Human nature is to take the easy way out so if you present game content that has easy content and hard content it is only natural for a person to choose easy content. In this respect people should not have any choice or say in the games development.

Edit: and again you are confusing your own impatiences for what immersion actually is.

I believe this addresses your concerns:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Content-Ideas.

There's ample motivation to choose the option you want for the content that you want. As long as reward/difficulty/time spent is balanced I don't see how that couldn't add more to the game whilst still providing immersion and a potential form of quick travel for those who want it.

[Bled]

I believe this addresses your concerns:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Content-Ideas.

There's ample motivation to choose the option you want for the content that you want. As long as reward/difficulty/time spent is balanced I don't see how that couldn't add more to the game whilst still providing immersion and a potential form of quick travel for those who want it.

I love your immersive dynamic content idea, however as I'm sure your aware If that choice were to be presented the hard way would have to out way the easy way with benefits, as does anything of that nature.

[Rhomagus]

I love your immersive dynamic content idea, however as I'm sure your aware If that choice were to be presented the hard way would have to out way the easy way with benefits, as does anything of that nature.

Of course, that's the main tenant of game balance.

You choose to do more, you get rewarded more. You want the easy way out, you pay a fee. That is how the current proposal is laid out as of September 9, 2011.