Aethernets (breaks immersion)

[Gemina]

Even me, a player who prefers to do things the slow and hard way still prefers travel via aetherytes. In any given day, I travel so much between different zones that if I traversed everywhere without the use of aetherytes it would either add an exponential amount of time, or greatly reduce what I get done that day.

That said, every once in a while I will still take the long road from point a to b. As another poster stated, you don't have to use them if you don't want to. They are a convenient means of travel that you pay for with gil, and are not mandatory. You don't even have to attune to them if you don't want to and if you feel as strongly as you state, this list should be small to non-existent for you.

[Silver-Strider]

I just saw a Lalafell WAR in a Pig Suit chase a Roe in the chocobo suit down in the Central Shroud. They shouted out terrible puns like, "Stay away you swine" to each other.

It was both hilarious and cringe inducing. Immersion be damned.

[Nixxe]

If you want to waste your time running from place to place, that's your business. Nobody can force you to use the aethernet though.

[Bacent]

I just saw a Lalafell WAR in a Pig Suit chase a Roe in the chocobo suit down in the Central Shroud. They shouted out terrible puns like, "Stay away you swine" to each other.

It was both hilarious and cringe inducing. Immersion be damned.

Glad to see my fellow Roecobos are around, kweh~

[Yasuhiro]

Game just needs less of them but I can't help myself from using them to get to places.

[Lucke]

Well the new city coming in SB will be entirely seamless and even have open rooftops. That is a step in the right direction.

Also while having a massive city is great for a sense of the world, Do you want to spend god knows how many minutes walking from place to place just trying to get simple stuff done? It will add up to hours of time wasted just for the sake of a big city. I am personally fine with a cut down city. Just use the horizon to display how big the city is, no need to be able to go everywhere.

This got me thinking: With PS3 support no longer a thing, will they make each city a single zone again like 1.0?

[Kaethra]

I'd like to see mounts or faster running allowed in cities. If we had say.. close to flying speed, I think many of us would skip the aethernet entirely. Skipping a load screen would make some destinations quicker.

[Shougun]

I think less of them would be fine, I do like to be reminded of the scale of things but its one of those funny things where like if you had a strategy on a boss that was really fast but a bit meh vs one that was a bit more time consuming but made you appreciate all the mechanics more.. nearly everyone, even the people who specifically say they like the slower version, would pick the first faster one. It's just one of those things..

Also making the old cities seamless again would be awesome :3

[basketofseals]

Seamless cities would be cool, but I don't think I would like seamless zones. Making every zone connected obviously to the next causes some pretty weird geography like the seemingly endless featureless mountains in WoW. In FFXIV every subzone of every zone has something interesting and unique. WoW achieves this with some pretty freaky geography, but I prefer FFXIV's much more toned down landscapes.

[Xlantaa]

Sometimes I do a "tour" without use the Aetherite. The time takes go to one point to another is insane. I think is better just let the Aethernet as is.