Real Time airship rides

[Klb600]

Naiyah lets just agree to disagree, yes you do make some valid points, but as i said in previous post, there are people who enjoy this type of thing and theres also nothing wrong with bringing a little more life into the game.Also i doubt it would take up that much recourses, if ffxi a 2000 game can do it i think we will be fine...

[Deusteele]

Optional or not, there's still a cost to developing this idea. The team may feel at the moment that the RoI in creating Real Time Airships just doesn't exist. And it's quite easy to see why. Here are just a few problems with this idea.

There is no world map. A Faux-World Map would have to be created to travel over. Systems would have be built and tested to track your whereabouts in real time to deal with jumpers(if possible) or connection issues.

Content may have to be created for it. Because unless there is a reason to visit it, players won't. Which would prove it was just a waste of resources.

Game Design is an evolving art. Systems are being created and discarded as theories change and adjust to an ever changing player base. What worked once may not work again. Attempting to recreate a system or method of play may show that it's time has past. This is an unfortunate result of the aforementioned changing player base.

[Asierid]

We're not allowed to have living and breathing worlds in MMOs anymore.

Sure looks living to me. Look at all that action.

[Blitzace]

With the amount of little babies i've seen shouting *OMG I HAVE TO FIND ALL THE AETHERS TO FLY? GEEZ I'LL WALK!* Doubt it.

[Kukajoo]

sounds like alot of work on squares end to add in for the small handful of people who would bother with it

[Roda]

I freaking love boat/airship/public transit in games (and real life!)
Gives you time to take a break and interact with other human beings for a bit.

When games have them I typically idle on them for several round trips just to pass the time waiting for queue or just dicking about in-game when I don't have enough time to really do anything meaningful. '3'

[Freyar]

Wasn't the ferry in v1 Realtime? It was nice to have... something on a schedule like that.

[Jacosta]

I enjoyed waiting for the boat in XI. Sometimes you have to slow down. This is a game and you would think people would play it to enjoy themselves for a few hours, not to rush, rush, rush...omg hurry to endgame so we can complain there's nothing to do. Story? What story? There's a story in FFXIV?