Reasons for why and why not shouldn't be implement a "fastest" or global travel-teleport system

[Junn]

Thanks for taking seriously. So, resuming some of your aspects as well as others here, the main arguments are:
-Even with the exploration component as a key aspect, it doesn’t need to force players to walk around in the late game when the world is already explored.
-It adds a frustration component because the risk of being killed, wasting food reserves and/or extreme caution at fighting (I would add a frustration to the fear of falling, maybe).

About the others reasons:

@EC_QWERTY

If I fight is for new loot and for the satisfaction of the combat or to test my new build.

@EC_QWERTY

This system is good on paper but they will need constant updates and new content to actually keep it fun and entertaining. Such a thing is not possible unless they modify the world with every update after release.

I think this is the case for the most of us at the end game in the limits of the current patch. But imagine the system in the context of full 1.0 over ALL Isola Sacra. Think also that this kind of system could be part of the core and not the end game only, there should be other Bounty/Challenges in mayor cities like Ravenport or Caylen, I guess. So the constant updates are not really necessary because it will be the content itself and the zones will change with your playthrough.

SPOILER:

Remember, how Nameless Pass changed after the breakthrough. So during the gameplay the zones could be changing as a result of the history, even drastic changes (i.e Cataclysm in WoW), but the difference is that will be part of the content and not of an expansion pack.

Also, I guess that some of the history it’s also related to the places (i.e the crow with the message when you are walking into Sacrament after Lowland Meadows events, etc).

The 1.0 will be in all Isola Sacra, and the place is huge, I guess it would be some kind of teleporting after all.

@EC_QWERTY

But you want to force other people to do something that you like and maybe they don’t.
Why?

No, I don’t, I just got annoyed by the quantity of people review bombing naming, in my opinion, dumb things as this “long walking” knowing that the game is not even fully developed. Maybe these systems are placed with intentions related to the core gameplay and not because of devs laziness. So if I got exalted about that, my bad.

@EC_QWERTY

Even if I teleport to a whisper I can admire the beauty of the level while I look for objectives inside that area.
I am still encouraged to explore to find more chests, items, enemies and so on.

The only part that is cut out it’s the walking/running/ dash spamming to get there.

If you want to walk you can do it even if fast travel is there.
But something tells me you will use it as well, right?

Yea, sure, I would do. But I don’t fell that my time is being wasted because I just spend a couple of minutes arriving to the quest’s place.

Finally, I guess if it adds too much frustration to players it may be implemented as well. One of the interviews that Thomas gave a couple of days he mentioned how the wisps could improve by adding some elements to that system, but to my eyes he didn’t want to change it.