Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
These systems used to have real ships, cutscenes and an atmosphere associated with them. They have all been removed.
There was 1 real boat service in 1.0 that was EXTREMELY bare bones, with less functionality than FFXI's ships. All you could do was walk around an empty boat for 15 minutes. Sometimes there was a lightning storm. I didn't miss it at all when it was gone.

The airships in 1.0 were never real though and were just the same cutscene that exists in ARR-onwards. To make it even worse, you still had to wait for them to come into the dock because they had "plans" of making it real but never went through with them. It would be nice if you could see flying airships from the ground like you could in 1.0 though.