Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

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My point wasn't about FFXI nostalga. it was that FFXI was successful and one of the things it was praised for was its dynamic, large, adventurous, lore-heavy world

This game on the other hand is so far unsuccessful and seems to be taking every action possible to not create a dynamic large adventurous lore-heavy world and instead create a game of instant gratification (kind of like just instancing everything).

while immersion is personal, its all but non existent in a game where you don't actually have a world or heavy story. When you just log on, warp somewhere, kill things, or log on sit down and 1 button for 10 hours to craft, you aren't immersed in any way. You are just doing a repetitive task much a like something people would pay a factory worker to do.

i agree with what az says bout the ffxi vs ffxiv... i don't about the boat rides being the reason at all on why the game will not be anything that ffxi was. i want all that she makes a picture of, but ...boat ride ..isn't it. i shouted and tele myself all day in ffxi... allllll day and boat rides stillllll like 2-5times a day, near end maybe 1-2times a day still, aaand we did tons of running around ...i don't know how many times i can say this lol. ffxi had instant ports they were just done way better. more centralized. it's not the ports and it's not the boats, it is everything else that is failing to create what ffxi was. in no way is it the 5minute boat ride, maybe some of u think of the boat as another bullet in the chest of what was ffxi but at most it's a scratch off the arm.