Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Rhomagus]

"Guildleves also grant use of aetheryte portals, ensuring quick travel about the region."

how do you interpret this then? As i am seeing it aetheryte portals are the means to teleport and Guildleves grant use, thus if you do not have a guildleve you should not be able to teleport based on lore.

Yet we can teleport regardless.

in order to grant some one with some thing one must first not have said thing thus need to be granted the ability to do so.

I don't see it as a constraint. I can be granted permission to pass regardless of whether I can actually pass or not. I can be granted permission to continue regardless of whether or not I could actually "continue". Granting something only opens up opportunity, it doesn't restrict it. It's semantics that have nothing to do with the design philosophy of accessibility and whether or not that should be diminished arbitrarily.

Besides, in one of my other replies I stated that game mechanics trumps immersion.

The storyline doesn't matter to me when it comes to explaining game mechanics as my level of immersion is satiated and deep enough to the point that my suspension of disbelief isn't so shallow as to try to explain away instant travel as a threat to immersion.

It is a worse threat to immersion when the storyline advocates something you should be able to do in game. The introduction to XI was notorious with this. Or when the storyline explains an old feature and said feature is pulled out from the game.

That and retcons introduced by multiple writers.