Teleport kills immersion

[Judah_Brandt]

Well, to be honest, we've had our immersion. Remember starting the game in your city-state? Not being able to teleport anywhere, giant fog-covered maps filled with various levels of content. No teleportation? Your only option was the chocobo Porter, except as you explored you could then find more Aetheryte to attune to and thus expand your reach. That being said, I have had my immersion. Imagine having to do a relic book in 2.x without teleportation - no.

[Gunspec]

So where is everyone going that teleportation is an issue? :P

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Duty Finder also ruins immersion. Honestly though its the game.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

So where is everyone going that teleportation is an issue? :P

Makes me wonder if they also opt not to use fast travel in other games like Zelda.

[Alahra]

Perhaps I'm miss understanding the definition of immersion.

It seems like you are. No one wants to be "jacked-in" so to speak.

Immersion is a pretty common topic of discussion in fiction generally, in which the term "breaking the fourth wall" refers to the creator deliberately dispelling the audience's sense of immersion in the work. In video games specifically, in an immersive game, the audience "forgets" about the interface and method of inputs generally, allowing them to fully experience the game's world and narrative "in universe" as it were.

[Knahli]

I thought this topic would be about NPCs teleporting in cutscenes which I actually hate as well. It looks quite silly and I tend to imagine that teleporting doesn't actually work as easily and conveniently as the in-game visuals would have you believe.

In any case, I need my teleports. I like walking and trekking and flying around a lot in my spare time and still use ground mounts in HW areas now and then, but sometimes I am not interested in wasting a ton of time taking a very long route to my destination as though there were anything along the way that I haven't seen a thousand times before already.

[Ashkendor]

Dunno. If teleporting is so immersion breaking for people, they can just not use it. If the HUD breaks your immersion, you can turn it off. If mob AoE indicators break your immersion, unfortunately I don't think we can turn those off so I think you're stuck.

I don't think any of this stuff is going anywhere, though. I know I'd be pretty pissed if they suddenly yanked teleportation.

[Iagainsti]

Forums Kill Immersion

[Kaurie]

Dunno. If teleporting is so immersion breaking for people, they can just not use it. If the HUD breaks your immersion, you can turn it off. If mob AoE indicators break your immersion, unfortunately I don't think we can turn those off so I think you're stuck.

I don't think any of this stuff is going anywhere, though. I know I'd be pretty pissed if they suddenly yanked teleportation.

Completely true. I do sometimes just take my mount and ride from Idyllshire to Ul'dah for fun and to experience the world. Where it becomes an issue is that you will miss out on open world content if you are not using teleports when everyone else is. For example, a hunt is called. You can try to run to Churning Mists from Ishgard, but you're not going to make it in time - you have to teleport.

I don't think they should get rid of Aetherytes, but I'd like the following:

• Increased danger the further away from an aetheryte
• Areas where you are forced to proceed on foot (i.e. a cave where you cannot fly)
• Animation while teleporting - such as making the loading screen look more like you are travelling through the aether (maybe Stargate style)
• Perhaps require you to be near a crystal to teleport out?
• Probably most importantly, provide a reason to be in the open world

[Judah_Brandt]

Remember when WoW removed flying mounts and there was a crazy amount of backlash and rage? Yeah, uh, taking something away that is an integral system in an MMORPG is a bad idea.