Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Seif]

This conversation ceased to be a legitimate debate when your main platform was "show me games that made me wait"...talk about irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Edit: You are missing the whole big picture, first we say hey you get insta teleport in the form of anima, then insta teleport with no cost in the form of airships, then we get the option to skip cut scenes, then we get GIANT POINTERS FOR QUESTS! that say DUURRRRR this way, seriously man when does this crap end. I hope you are seeing the trend in the game and why ruining immersion is ultimately ruining the game.

Things are not black and white, and there is always more to something then what seems.

I think you bring up a good point here. The giant arrows everywhere make the world and the lore completely irrelevant.
In XI you were hanging onto every word the NPC's spoke because it could have major gameplay information woven into the conversation. In XIV all text are just completely flavor text glued on top of a levequest that is completely irrelevant to the player and that more than any other aspect in the game ruins the immersion for me.

warp to location X--> get handed a leve-->warp to location-->kill the too easy mobs-->warp back---->get anded a useless piece of gear/too much gil

[Rhomagus]

I think you bring up a good point here. The giant arrows everywhere make the world and the lore completely irrelevant.
In XI you were hanging onto every word the NPC's spoke because it could have major gameplay information woven into the conversation. In XIV all text are just completely flavor text glued on top of a levequest that is completely irrelevant to the player and that more than any other aspect in the game ruins the immersion for me.

warp to location X--> get handed a leve-->warp to location-->kill the too easy mobs-->warp back---->get anded a useless piece of gear/too much gil

Nael van Darnus is mentioned in a cutscene. As we now know that's pretty key information. You'd be surprised how many nuggets of info are available in game if you pay attention.