Aethernets (breaks immersion)

[MicahZerrshia]

Were a lot of people asking for aethernets to travel in seconds?

As legacy I can answer this... Yes.

The zones and cities were such a pain to navigate in v1 due to their enormous sizes and couple with the currency for aetheryte travel locked to a slowly regenerating stat (think levequests) called anima that it could take you 30 minutes easily to run to an area. And when you had to run from the alchemist guild, to weavers guild, back to the alchemist guild then out to black brush...well you get the idea. Doing all that without shortcuts when you add in all the long hallways, invisible walls and other arbitrary things SE added, like many gaming companies do, to compensate for a lack of creativity was torturous and actually made people just up and quit. Once or twice, fine, but when its on a regular basis....omg no thanks.

So people specifically asked for easier ways to get around and SE acknowledged that and added this feature.

Like many said, they are optional, if you don't like em, don't use em. It's not game breaking in any way.

And frankly we are going to have a bunch or Warriors of Light, saviors of the realm, the chosen or Hydaelyn, buzzing around Eorzea on giant eggs popping out baby chocos, most likely while in bunny suits, so aetheryte travel should be the least of your worries for emersion breaks hahaha