Auto path option would it be possible?

[Shurrikhan]

You can consider mounts/ teleport aetheryte optional too when you can walk your character everywhere inside the cities do it often with autorun, point of view is that the more options you add it will improve the game and not the other way around.
No I am not doing it on purpose accept that persons can make different suggestions from yours and what is not useful to you might be to someone else.

You can, in an exercise of semantics, call mounts and teleportation optional. They are not, optional, however, for playing the game as others play it or with the same availability of tools or pace that others carry, which is always going to be a factor of some significance in a game in which you play alongside, around, or even merely in tangential comparison with others. The only exception to this is you play perfectly solo with literally zero notice of other players therein. That is not an option if one wishes to complete even the mostly-solo components story, nor literally all content outside of questing, however, and therefore the implications of being multiplayer are a real factor here. Not all QoL changes can be taken individually. The vast majority of changes, no matter how seemingly isolated, establish precedent. When you argue for a change, you must expect argument for the changes consequent to that change.

[AnnaRosa]

I didn’t say it wasn’t useful. I said it was unnecessary. Other games like Black Desert and Bless have auto-pathing because they have very large spread out worlds which can take a significant amount of time to traverse and because they’re also Korean grinders specifically designed to waste as much of your time as possible they have severely limited fast travel.

On the other hand, XIV zones are tiny by comparison and we have so many travel options it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes tops to reach any point in the world.

Auto-pathing in FFXIV is unnecessary.

I understand is unnecessary for you but you have to be able to realize that more players that enjoy this game have different needs than yours and one tool that for you might be unnecessary for others might be of aid.

The world isn't just you or players with in the same condition as you.

Distorting, huh?
But let me guess: "that's not what I mean't" and "You're just putting words in my mouth" is what you're gonna say like many other replies in this thread?

In the original post never mention as an inconvinience that was you simple if you don't want to be accuse to distort the others persons words than stop doing it.

You can, in an exercise of semantics, call mounts and teleportation optional. They are not, optional, however, for playing the game as others play it or with the same availability of tools or pace that others carry, which is always going to be a factor of some significance in a game in which you play alongside, around, or even merely in tangential comparison with others. The only exception to this is you play perfectly solo with literally zero notice of other players therein. That is not an option if one wishes to complete even the mostly-solo components story, nor literally all content outside of questing, however, and therefore the implications of being multiplayer are a real factor here. Not all QoL changes can be taken individually. The vast majority of changes, no matter how seemingly isolated, establish precedent. When you argue for a change, you must expect argument for the changes consequent to that change.

Understand your opinion contrary to you don't think one autopath option will open precedent to anything else, due to the game structure and it's goal.
Dunno also if as an optional function would come as possible customization when players can choose when installing the game.
If one player doesn't want that function to not instal it with the game interface.
Noone mentioned a solo game so far don't think it will add anything new to the topic or let it evolve from the original message.