Let's talk about some design choices that break your immersion for fun

[RodericWarblade]

For me, I've been playing Dragoon again.

Why do Dragoons experience fall damage? Like, isn't jumping and falling from great heights their thing?

What are some of your design choices that break immersion for you?

[Selsix]

For me, I've been playing Dragoon again.

Why do Dragoons experience fall damage? Like, isn't jumping and falling from great heights their thing?

What are some of your design choices that break immersion for you?

"Teleport" skills not actually being teleports will forever piss me off. It's absurd that a skill which is literally teleporting me to a new location can still allow me to fall down a hole on the way there or slam into a death wall and die.

[Atreus]

That you can fly to the Steps of Faith leading to Ishgard and it's scaled absolutely nothing like the duty is.

[Ath192]

Trying to find a group in PF and have to log out, pray the populated data center is open, travel to it log in and find myself in an identical place but without my house or FC buffs and do the same fight there. And then log out and log in back again to my home data center to send my retainers on ventures for the night.

I guess that’s being fully immersed in server data migration and networking features of a live service though. I just thought I was paying to be in a fantasy land far away.

[VeyaAkemi]

That you can fly to the Steps of Faith leading to Ishgard and it's scaled absolutely nothing like the duty is.

Don't try to fly to far off landmarks in ARR zones in general, ARR maps weren't made with flying in mind and some spots it really show, they were using perspective to avoid making it as large as it is meant to be, so getting closer to it will make it look incredibly off, the Castrum in Eastern La Noscea is also really bad about this, especially being able to look *over* certain walls we were never meant to be able to.

[Valence]

People in bikinis in duties.

[Hycinthus]

This is a problem across many MMOs to be honest, but for me, it's not having windows that can see outside in housing. It's just immersion breaking to me. I think the only MMO that has windows that can see outdoors is BDO. You can interact with them, and open them, and you can see outside.

This actually goes beyond just housing. In general, MMOs and games don't really implement real windows in any building's interiors (they usually just put faux-windows with lights). Everything just feels so enclosed and claustrophobic without them.

[MAJRIS]

That the otherwise beautifully crafted maps are still designed without aetherytes in mind. Then the crystals are added almost like in a hurry.

[Vespar]

Tome caps, weekly lockouts. I want to play. I want to gear up, but Im constantly restricted by lockouts.

[Aidorouge]

FATEs that have no significant/permanent impact in the world space for an individual player.

They make such a big deal about some these bosses/encounters in the descriptions, yet you can wait 15-20 minutes and the same major threat is back/the endangered persons didn't learn their lesson. Feels like these mobs and NPCs are all in on the same joke or scam and I'm the mark who keeps falling for it until I eventually walk past their shell game because I'm tired of winning shiny baubles for my wasted time.