toastyToast
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And while we're talking about questionable changes, I still don't think warping right from the beginning is a good move. It will remove all of the tension from traveling far from home. Blighttown wouldn't have been the same experience if you could just warp out whenever you wanted. Part of the insanity of that whole place was knowing that the only way to get back to Firelink was to keep pushing forward.
It's not like every bonfire would be warpable. Assuming you didn't have the master key and thought, "Oh shit, man. Blighttown is hard." and warped back to Firelink (if that option existed), to get back there you'd have to walk through the aqueduct in Firelink Shrine into Undead Burg, make your way through the Depths again and go back into Blighttown wasting a bunch of time and probably dying along the way. Even with the ability to retreat, pushing forward is still the only option.