Abolish Anima - Implementation of Airships and Chocobos

[Coombah]

Do not want! Keep the anima!

[Vesper]

Square Enix needs to implement Skynet asap. Let it attack all these damn anima threads... of course that would mean Judgement Day.. but there would be no more anima threads... hmmm.. decisions decisions....

[MattyWS]

You know a simple way to fix this crap about 'casual' players needing it? Anima should only regenerate when you are logged off. I hate anima, it's a stupid idea that ruined the game, it's practically cheating. But if you guys really want to use anima, then this way is perfect. If you are a 'casual' player and need anima, you will have it, if you are always playing you need to slow down thus, anima wont regenerate

[Dargoth_Draconia]

You know a simple way to fix this crap about 'casual' players needing it? Anima should only regenerate when you are logged off. I hate anima, it's a stupid idea that ruined the game, it's practically cheating. But if you guys really want to use anima, then this way is perfect. If you are a 'casual' player and need anima, you will have it, if you are always playing you need to slow down thus, anima wont regenerate

That is your opinion. I love anima and to me it hasn't effected the game in anyway shape or form negatively. Especially considering it was our only form of quick travel for an entire year. Btw your sig makes me cringe, you couldn't come up with your own name for your character you had to steal one from another character and even make that character look similar to the characters name you have taken. /disgust

[Teknoman]

You know a simple way to fix this crap about 'casual' players needing it? Anima should only regenerate when you are logged off. I hate anima, it's a stupid idea that ruined the game, it's practically cheating. But if you guys really want to use anima, then this way is perfect. If you are a 'casual' player and need anima, you will have it, if you are always playing you need to slow down thus, anima wont regenerate

So...what about MP based teleportation in XI or warp/teleport scrolls and rings? Its really no difference, and certainly not...cheating. And like i've said before, the Chocobos help to get to places we've never been, places that are far from nodes/crystals, or just exploring areas that are out of the way from the norm. Airships are basically like the ferry, and soon we'll probably have content we can ONLY get to via Airship.

Or maybe even different ferry routes.

[MattyWS]

So...what about MP based teleportation in XI or warp/teleport scrolls and rings? Its really no difference, and certainly not...cheating. And like i've said before, the Chocobos help to get to places we've never been, places that are far from nodes/crystals, or just exploring areas that are out of the way from the norm. Airships are basically like the ferry, and soon we'll probably have content we can ONLY get to via Airship.

Or maybe even different ferry routes.

'Cept you had to work towards getting teleport scrolls and abilities or pay for teles and then had to choco to places too. Anima is free teleport to pretty much anywhere

[Ceons]

'Cept you had to work towards getting teleport scrolls and abilities or pay for teles and then had to choco to places too. Anima is free teleport to pretty much anywhere

Sorry to break it to you... but who cares.

This is not XI! It was a great game but taking away mobility in a game of 2010 is not a way to bring in subscribers to make sure more than a few are paying for a game we like so that we can continue to play it many years from now.

Also, I played and loved XI for years. I love a lot of things about it, but I don't think removing teleportation/anima in FFXIV because of I like FFXI system is a good idea at all.

[Jynx]

Sorry to break it to you... but who cares.

Not that I agree with his particular view on the situation the ammount of debate it sparks makes post like this questionable.

It's obvious alot of people care, some want it taken out, some want it unlimited, and others want it controlled. You really should care about the anima system, one way or another and not cast your eyes down on people who might not agree with you.

[odette]

Now that we have Chocobo and Airships I feel that we have no need for anima. Anima completely takes away from the purpose of these two methods of travel. It takes away from "immer...".

Add teleporation to a job class. the ability to teleport to 1 sepcific area within each region just like the teleports in FF11. That still made chocbos of great use and it also gave purpose and responsibility to another class. Each teleport crystal also took part in the games story line leading into CoP missions.

There are so many ways to add extra lore and content just by removing anima without making the game 100% accessible in all areas with 4 different ways of transpiration and 1 of them completely negating the existence of the other 3. Why not just add unlimited anima... Why not just make the game entirely instanced like Vindictus and many others.

Why even call it an Open World MMO at this point? Why even add Chocobo and Airships? I do not understand.

another people that live in 2001, when the mmos was slow
please dont listen this people, they will ruins the game
not more "i want immersion"

[LemmingKingXXX]

maybe I can do the same here as I did in another thread about teleportation
explain to me how anima harms your own personal game experience in a way that does not involve a lack of self-control, I don't want analogies, I don't want arguments based on extreme or ridiculous hypothetical situations, I want an explanation on how it harms you personally but not as a result of a lack of willpower