Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Konachibi]

I agree and i too try to fill the gaps in with a shrug or a laugh, however there's nothing wrong with wanting this game to aspire to great heights. I have played FF since 1 on the Nintendo when i was 4 so call me a fan boy or not i have great expectations and traditional game formula expectations making me bi-est to a degree. But that's why I'm here i have hopes that all problems will get hammered out in a year or two!

I understand, I too am biased towards wanting to see this game aspire to many things. I enjoy it's gameplay, I enjoy it's graphical quality, I enjoy the complexity of crafting, and the wonderfull music, and being able to finally play as a cat-girl on an mmo that isn't old, dead or empty.

I too also posses most Final Fantasy games, even going so far as to hunt down a re-release copy of Ehrgeiz that came with the 'dungeon crawl' addition, because I am rarely dissapointed with a Squaresoft/Square Enix game (Final Fantasy 12 being the only one I can actually think of) so I put faith in their ability to not only fix this game but boost it to new levels. (I did in fact buy Final Fantasy XI on release day in the U.K, however I didn't write down my Play Online ID number and a week after installing it I had to format my computer, rendering me incapable of continuing to play it, and I couldn't find it in stores anymore to buy another copy, nor did I want to at the time as I was still using a good old 56k modem and the game was just plain lag)

However given that certain elements of the game aren't going to be fixed for a while, it's easier to poke fun at it than to say "It's ok, don't worry, give it about a year and they'll fix it." because that tends to only infuriate them more.