Get rid of all aetherytes and flying

[Nebelheim]

I would actually be completely in favour of returning to the ARR design. Smaller, more detailed zones with no flying available, but riding maps still allow you to quickly traverse through them.
The problem is that post-ARR zones already exist and those were designed around the ability to fly.

Allowing flying in arr zones i feel ruined them considering how much smaller they are compared to future zones and weren't designed with flying in mind.

[Elissar]

it's weird that we use an airship as a way to travel between cities in MSQ and we don't ever use it again. We even have a cute cutscene where everyone say goodbye...
I think we need more ways to interact with our world, not only characters.

Open world/outworld is meh, making us travel to Kugane to access Eureka or Doma enclave to access Bozjan is cheap. We need more reasons to leave our cities, houses or island.
I am already a real life indoor weeb, i don't want to be a virtual indoor weeb.

They will do it? probably not.

[Absurdity]

it's weird that we use an airship as a way to travel between cities in MSQ and we don't ever use it again. We even have a cute cutscene where everyone say goodbye...

This was originally planned to be a thing, 1.0 was initially supposed to get real time airship travel in the future (iirc it already had real time boat travel).

But when the game bombed and Yoshi-P's team took over that idea got scrapped and with the 2.0 zones being what they are having ships and airships carry you from place to place in real time didn't make much sense anymore.

[Payadopa]

I think the game has too many QoL things. I don't want to go back to LFP in Jeuno for like 6 hours but XIV overdoes it. Everything is pretty much single player now below Savage.

[Alleo]

I have a friend that only teleports when its absolutely necessary. Otherwise he walks/rides there. In the past we often did some treasure maps together and we did either have to wait on him or travel along side him. It was boring. Doing a couple of maps was taking so long and its especially frustrating if no portal spawned...

My fun in this game would drop big time if that was how we would have to travel all the time. The first time exploring a map also does not have flying and you need to unlock the aetherytes. At that time its at least a bit fun because everything is new. But its stops being new quite fast.

In the end nothing stops you from doing the "no teleport / no flying" yourself. Just like my friend does. Just dont use it.