to argue that they make us run camp to camp ...or why not of had 1 city, or even we got the anima system, don't work. it for one dont' matter if they making us run camp to camps, the truth of the matter is, the game didn't even launch with quests, it is safe to say they hashed out what ever they could just to keep us busy as much as possible cause lets face it ...the game was empty.

also the 3 city thing came from ffxi so i guess they wanted to stick with it, and it is great for story making and options (options we dont' really have much of at all ...unlike ffxi, reason is stated above) also most games i have played only have 1 very huge city ...granted there games are usually nothing i have been able to play more then a year b4 quit, it was for certain not cause i didn't have to run city to city or jump on a boat afk for 5mins a few times a day.

i'm not looking for anything handed, i had 700days of gameplay in ffxi. i play all day in ffxiv too. i want it as grueling as it can get, fact more so then anyone else most likely lol. ...well not that grueling i still don't think i want camping nm's all day over killing all day for them in some way. but that gets ride of afk peoples all day and bot claims. so maybe do want it more. lol. any way ..boats ain't hurting it at all. i kinda a broken record on this. it connects 3 cities they really needed to have connected, the time it takes for them to add new content and transports that would of killed the use of boats anyway. all it does is save anima for the mostly used part.

truth be told ...if devs made the game correctly who don't think the crystals are what should of gave the leves? or a npc at each camp? why go to stupid adv guild to reget anyway. (though they are finally add 99leves at same time, i still not sure if that means keep needing to go to city again or can redo from crystal? anyone have that answer?)

it is not a balance or game killer or immersion killer, it just saves people with little or lots of time, ..a lot of time. again ffxi had waaaaaaaay easier porting then ffxiv does, and so do every mmo out there. from scrolls to whatever else they have in them. they all make u only get to places once, maps open as u run threw them things like that ..then done. enjoy the rest of your stay.

then guess what new content comes out!!! and we get to do it all over again, run to those places and learn them. the game is empty folks, we would of probably had tons of new transport and stuff if game didn't fail to launch.