For what it's worth I feel like there's a lot of merit behind the 'immersion' argument. Yes, FFXIV is full of references to previous Final Fantasy titles but so far almost all of them have fit the setting fairly well.Â
The bike, however, just feels out of place. Nothing we've seen of the high tech civilisations present in the setting have been shown to embrace that sort of technology. Garlemald is more like The Archadian Empire and The Gestahlian Empire than Midgar from what we've seen so far so the 'magitek' argument doesn't hold much weight in my eyes.
With that said the cynic in me firmly believes that they'll add it at some point. The fact that they decided to randomly give a turtle mount the ability to fly shows that they'll quite readily add stuff like that to appease vocal fans. It's not the end of the world but if it becomes too common to the point where FFXIV becomes as quirky as WoW did in its recent years then I'll likely make my peace and take my leave of the game.
After all I ended up drifting towards FFXIV because it took itself a bit more seriously than WoW did in regards to consistency and world building.
The bike, however, just feels out of place. Nothing we've seen of the high tech civilisations present in the setting have been shown to embrace that sort of technology. Garlemald is more like The Archadian Empire and The Gestahlian Empire than Midgar from what we've seen so far so the 'magitek' argument doesn't hold much weight in my eyes.
With that said the cynic in me firmly believes that they'll add it at some point. The fact that they decided to randomly give a turtle mount the ability to fly shows that they'll quite readily add stuff like that to appease vocal fans. It's not the end of the world but if it becomes too common to the point where FFXIV becomes as quirky as WoW did in its recent years then I'll likely make my peace and take my leave of the game.
After all I ended up drifting towards FFXIV because it took itself a bit more seriously than WoW did in regards to consistency and world building.
