Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Renshi]

-moogle walks in-
moogle: and my pom pom
-room stares at it speechless-
moogle: what... pom poms are hardcore kupo
-room stares and it speechless-
-moogle dances, pom pom flies around and knocks everyone out-

And my....

[Ilean]

crystal wards? go find the bots and watch them craft nearly 24/7 for weeks straight? search "botters" on this forum and read the countless threads bout it?

So any evidence? I've seen tons of "bot" videos but none that proves that they are botting.

So you would have shards/crystals go scarce just because you believe that some people bot them? lol!

[Aenarion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain < all sources cited
set + match

quoting wikipedia = fail

quoting unrelated wikipedia page = double fail

you set+match'd yourself

[Azurymber]

So any evidence? I've seen tons of "bot" videos but none that proves that they are botting.

So you would have shards/crystals go scarce just because you believe that some people bot them? lol!

.... maybe the 100s of people that will openly admit to it? lol.

but no, your right, bots don't exist. They are a conspiracy that people made up to kill this game....

[Dargoth_Draconia]

crystal wards? go find the bots and watch them craft nearly 24/7 for weeks straight? search "botters" on this forum and read the countless threads bout it?

SE will ban them when it matters right now it doesn't so who cares? Not like gil is worth a crap at the moment anyways.

[Aenarion]

So any evidence? I've seen tons of "bot" videos but none that proves that they are botting.

So you would have shards/crystals go scarce just because you believe that some people bot them? lol!

while some botters are pretty obvious, such as a Ofuds Lsdhf sitting in front of the fish npc in LL for weeks at a time doing nothing but making wind shards, others are debatable. I myself have often missed chats while watching a movie while grinding crafts. Eitherway, making life unnecessarily difficult for every single crafters in the game because of the presence of botters is just not a very smart idea, especially when going back to the old system would just make things slightly inconvenient for the botters while increasing their profit margins as prices goes up.

IMO, the whole concept of limited inventory should be thrown out the window, burned to a crisp, and have its ashes shot out into space and dumped into the sun for good measure. Limited inventory for what a character can carry on person is fine, but limiting inventory space in your "home base", or the equivalent of such, serves little purpose other than as extra income for the dev. in the form of mules.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by Eve, I can have thousands of items that stacks trillions deep, and I can do that in hundreds and hundreds of different stations.

[Ilean]

Eitherway, making life unnecessarily difficult for every single crafters in the game because of the presence of botters is just not a very smart idea, especially when going back to the old system would just make things slightly inconvenient for the botters while increasing their profit margins as prices goes up.

Agree.

It's like the DRM effect. You inconvenience and screw over the legitimate customers without really solving the original issue.

[User201109011315]

.... maybe the 100s of people that will openly admit to it? lol.

but no, your right, bots don't exist. They are a conspiracy that people made up to kill this game....

I know right. I know so many people that bot, and they aren't shy about it.

[Konachibi]

Warcraft had mage portals and summoning system, also what you said about exploring on that game is so far off base. There are millions of stories like you are trying to say and I can barely think of any in FFXIV because it is copy/paste environments and a dead world. Not trying to totally defend that game but if you are going to try to use another game as example don't lie to try to make this game look better. I actually believe I posted that on an earlier post using WoW as an example for the amazing transportation immersion that game has.

Actually you have a point, I'd forgotten about mage and city portals, been a while since I played it. I still can't think of a single time in the whole 5 years I played it where I had a memorable experience in exploration, usually I just found myself running back to my corpse after bouncing off a cliff or something.

Also 90% of Warcraft enviroments was copy & paste too, ashenvale itself had at least 5 'caves' in it that were all completely identical, and caves in Teldrassil that were also identical to them too, and even ones added in Cataclysm. Same with the buildings.

Hard to find any MMO though that doesn't feature some form of copy&paste somewhere.

As it is though I wasn't lieing, I find this game more enjoyable, because it doesn't dictate what I have to do. I don't have to kill things, I can spend the time gathering, crafting or just exploring and admiring the surroundings. In Warcraft to see any real content I'd HAVE to kill stuff because I'd HAVE to gain levels so I can move into new zones to gather materials to craft. If I didn't every monster within a 15 mile radius would be chasing me.

As for barely thinking of any stories... plenty that people have posted in this forum, heck my linkshell has a thread on their forum devoted to letting everyone else in the LS know what adventures they'd recently been up to.

[AmyRae]

As for barely thinking of any stories... plenty that people have posted in this forum, heck my linkshell has a thread on their forum devoted to letting everyone else in the LS know what adventures they'd recently been up to.

Apparently, no one is really having fun until they're completely unable to teleport anywhere.