New airships only automatic retainer ventures

Am I the only one hugely disappointed in the way this feature turned out.
I feel like they have totally missed the point in what the players like about airships in FF games.

I don't need a new proxy for retainer ventures. I don't need another cutscene to watch. I want to BE ON the airship dammit!

I am also kinda sad on how the airship turned out.
But, if we could actually fly it and explore my guess is that it would have a limit on how many could do so at one time.
And my guess is that the most Elite crew of a FC would be the ones to indirecly claim that ship as their own personal right, as they are the most capable people to do so. Which would leave the rest of the FC standing there.

I have to agree. WIth flying in the game, there's no reason you shouldnt be able to board an airship and fly. Other games do it... why not this one?

Nope that's the core concept of airships. If you look around they have commented more on it that in future patches the concept will be expanded. While yes it's current core concept is sending out on missions that return after x time there are plans to allow one to ride on airship and to have said airship take you to unlocked location. So don't get worked up if you think this is all it is. The concepts they would want to add later would most likely be an "end game' like concept to airships so even if they tried to add it now it would be a while before people actually reached it.

Also it's only like ventures in the concept that you send someone out and they return after a set amount of time. What makes these highly different from ventures is the ability to follow a route and find new locations and plan new routes based on locations found, so there will definitely be a micromanaging aspect to figure out the most lucrative routes.

you know that the airship venture for us is the 3.1, was said already, the 3.1 will bring the airship we can board.

Yeah, pretty disappointing. Not at all surprising, considering pretty much the exact same sort of outcome as the whole chocobo training "feature" which was hyped but turned out to be exactly nothing but a way to force us to grow vegetables and watch cut scenes. But yeah. The real question is why Square feels the need to hype up these features in such a way that they suggest there will be something more to it, something with actual depth instead of the item vending machine we are going to get. Feels disingenuous.

About now, the first white knight is scheduled to show up and tell us to wait for the system to get patched before we make a judgement.


EDIT: wow they beat me to it before i could even finish the post.

Not that I'm optimistic about it, but didn't they mention that the actual traveling on personal ships part will come at a later part? IIRC they vaguely described it to be like MH4's expeditions (randomly generated maps that the game creates when you start the adventure).

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Originally Posted by Apoptic

About now, the first white knight is scheduled to show up and tell us to wait for the system to get patched before we make a judgement.

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you can complain if they had told us that it will come from the start, but the have always said that the airship we can board will not come to the release but at later date. there it's complain for complain nothing more. other point, if you had read the patch note you will have seen that the airship need to rank up for be able to explore deeper part of the sky sea... we have something to do while waiting for the airship venture for us.

Im sure it will get patched in at some point, probably with the missing egi's.

Promises, promises

Nothing in what they explained brought me to believe it'd be anything different.
Why were you expecting something other than a FC venture system?