IS this mount for the FF7 relaunch?

I want it!

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It's not going to be released unless they do major rehauling on how it moves in-game.

It'll probably be in the cash shop eventually. But will it fly? That's the real question

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Originally Posted by myahele

It'll probably be in the cash shop evetually

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I'd buy it.

No please i want it in a8s

Could be a subscription mount like the stuff we've had so far.

omg I need this!

Wow! That would be amazing!

This is not a mount that will be available in game. It was revealed at the end of one of the Live Letters and their statement was that it looked stupid at the current ground mount speed and would need to be significantly faster to make sense. They also said that due to this the idea was scrapped and would not ever be released.

They need to make the Goobue mount fly first, I mean heck the turtle can fly now!!

It is something the devs did for giggles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WA8Q9PZiSY

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Originally Posted by Felis

It is something the devs did for giggles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WA8Q9PZiSY

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You can bet that a good amount of people will be ready to throw their money on the screen for this, especially when the FF7 Remake is going to hit.
All they need to do is to touch up on the quality, add some animations and basically they are done with it.

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Originally Posted by Arrius

You can bet that a good amount of people will be ready to throw their money on the screen for this, especially when the FF7 Remake is going to hit.
All they need to do is to touch up on the quality, add some animations and basically they are done with it.

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I reiterate from my previous post... the issue isn't the quality or the animations, it's the mount speed. Watch the whole video... the first showing of it is how they would want it to look and feel as a real mount in the game. The second showing is the version with the current ground mount speed. They can't make it the speed they want it because then it would be horribly skewed to people who bought the thing and they'd have to increase the ground mount speed of everything else which would then look ridiculous for them.

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Originally Posted by Malzian

I reiterate from my previous post... the issue isn't the quality or the animations, it's the mount speed. Watch the whole video... the first showing of it is how they would want it to look and feel as a real mount in the game. The second showing is the version with the current ground mount speed. They can't make it the speed they want it because then it would be horribly skewed to people who bought the thing and they'd have to increase the ground mount speed of everything else which would then look ridiculous for them.

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The players probably wouldn't care if it's as slow as any of the other mounts.

They can get a bike.

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Originally Posted by myahele

But will it fly? That's the real question

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You mean like these?

https://starcarcentral.files.wordpre...4mo8o1_500.jpg
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...9037051825.jpg
http://media.battlestarwiki.org/imag...cycle_back.jpg

Gotta love BattleStar Galactica.... ;)

For that authentic 'motorcycle' feel, try the battle cat....I mean Coeurl mount. It's a very motorcycle like riding position, I've always felt that the battlecat kind of has the stance of a custom bike anyway.

Sitting waiting to move...
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130818223551

on the move...
http://i.imgur.com/88IJhvR.jpg

hmm, maybe a motorbike barding for the chocobo?

How about turning it into some kind of fast travel :)

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Originally Posted by Arrius

The players probably wouldn't care if it's as slow as any of the other mounts.

They can get a bike.

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I can almost guarantee that the moment it's released that the first thread to pop up on the forum would be "Why is this mount so damned slow?". It just looks.... awful... really.

WHAT A MOTORCYCLE IN MUH GAME? The space dragons are ok

The advanced aliens allagans are ok.

The talking cats are fine.

The world ending god of darkness is also fine.

BUT DIS MOTORCYCLE DOE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The issue isn't how the bike would fit into the game or how much people do or dont want it. The issue is the movement speed and how stupid it looks. They've already said that it is a definite no. As much a no as FFXIV going F2P.

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Originally Posted by FinalWolf

The talking lizards with tusks growing from their jawbones are fine.

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You said it, not me.

;)

Motorcycle mini-game at Gold Saucer please

I love how a major issue people and SE had with this apparently..is that it moves at the same speed as other mounts...meanwhile...fat bloody chocobo moves at the same speed as every other mount in the game and doesn't slow down at all due to weight ...which raises the question...WHY DOES IT MATTER HOW FAST IT GOES?!?!? And on top of that..it's from another FF game in the first place so the it breaks immersion excuse doesn't work either because ...we have freaking robotic walkers ..and robotic golems or whatever ...and a motorcycle doesn't fit? GG lol

They are reluctant to put it in because it looks kind of awkward at the current mount speed.

Release it in game, make it the reward for a long quest line involving a joint effort between the Ironworks and Nero tol Scaeva to build a machine based on the ideas of some unimportant Garlean engineer (who may or may not be of the nan Shinra family) for a rapid transport for Garlean scouts and messengers.

Give it normal movement speed for mounts which would make it sort of putter along grandpa's mobility scooter, but as an extra ability (similar to the 'attacks' that some mounts like the Magitek Armors and Goobbues have) it has a "Full Throttle" mode that can be activated if one is in possession of "High Octane Ceruleum" fuel which would be a consumable item along the lines of Gyshal Greens for companions or Mission Ceruleum/Ceruleum Tanks for FC airships.

Using Full Throttle boosts movement speed to something appropriate for a proper badass motorcycle for a limited time, say around 15 seconds. The item has a cool down of 10 seconds so theoretically you could keep Full Throttle on constantly - as long as you're fueled up. While under Full Throttle status, the bike automatically moves forward at full speed and turning is less responsive. A Fuel Cut ability is also available to cancel Full Throttle at any time - forfeiting any unused fuel time.

Finally make the fuel purchasable from a few Ironworks-affiliated NPCs scattered around the world in exchange for allagan tomestones, as well as being able to refined from Airship Cerulean Tanks in FC workshops (but not sellable on the MB).

Full Throttle. Wonderful game.

Yeah I have no issue with a slow motorcycle. Flying mounts have sporadic wind gusts, and various speeds of wing flappage. Motorcycle can have the various "wind gusts" and variable "speed noises" as well. But still go the grandpa mobility scooter speed. And I'd still love it.

To quote a line from The LEGO Movie - "What part of NO don't you understand?!" SE have made themselves clear this will never be released - it was just a joke by the developers. Even ignoring the fact that Cloud's bike simply breaks the game's lore (I'm not talking about motorcycles period, I'm talking about just how ridiculous Cloud's Advent Children bike would be suddenly in Eorzea.), it's already been made clear that it's appearance is terrible running at the standard mount speed in FFXIV. There's only so much handwaving can do before such fanservice just looks stupid. And no amount of whining, and pleading SE to release it will make them change their minds. They made their decision, they're sticking to it.

And I'm glad that SE are sticking to their guns and that it's not being added to the game.

My Immersion! :o

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

(I'm not talking about motorcycles period, I'm talking about just how ridiculous Cloud's Advent Children bike would be suddenly in Eorzea.)

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Well they have already done some ridiculous things in the name of cross promotion and other things. With all the building and technology in the world, to me it is more believable to have some THING that could be made in this world and can be given to the player to test (sort of like the node minion, show her the world!) versus some ONE appearing just for the sake of cross advertising.

Actually they announced they WILL be releasing this mount to celebrate the episodic FF7 remake. Expect the front tire to ship in 2019 when FF7 Chapter 01 hits stores, the handlebars will arrive in 2021 along with Chapter 02, the seat will get pushed back with Chapter 03 until 2024, and the rear tire will be cancelled after the Capcom/ Square Enix merger of 2026 since "CapSEcom" will announce plans to reboot the FF7 remake on the PS6.

Please look forward to it.

Make it really fast and have it burn a lot of Gil (or some valuable) as cost for fuel. *shrugs*

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Originally Posted by Malzian

This is not a mount that will be available in game. It was revealed at the end of one of the Live Letters and their statement was that it looked stupid at the current ground mount speed and would need to be significantly faster to make sense. They also said that due to this the idea was scrapped and would not ever be released.

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It's for this exact reason why I wouldn't want it in the game. If it was the only super high speed mount, then suddenly every single other mount in the game would cease to be useful and would become nothing but trophies unless they could match the speed. Every single player would literally only be riding this mount for the effect wither they actually liked it or not.

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

It's for this exact reason why I wouldn't want it in the game. If it was the only super high speed mount, then suddenly every single other mount in the game would cease to be useful and would become nothing but trophies unless they could match the speed. Every single player would literally only be riding this mount for the effect wither they actually liked it or not.

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They can make it as slow as the others, even make a big notice in the product details on the Mog Station, people will still buy it fully knowing what they get themselves into.

Because bikes.

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Originally Posted by Arrius

The players probably wouldn't care if it's as slow as any of the other mounts.

They can get a bike.

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I think the XIV team are putting their own views before the players regarding this particular mount. A motorcycle should be fast... with the speed it goes in the video, it may as well be a Flintstones vehicle.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

I think the XIV team are putting their own views before the players regarding this particular mount. A motorcycle should be fast... with the speed it goes in the video, it may as well be a Flintstones vehicle.

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To be fair, it would be funny to have this tricked-out motorcycle with one horsepower.

I believe there is a solution to make the mount not look bad due to slow speed. In Aion they introduced some kind of special mounts which had a similar problem, they had to appear going faster than normal mounts to make sense, but in the end they had to be the same speed. What they did was add some kind of warp animation on the sides, similar to how it is when you go very fast, that gave you the pseudo-impression that the mount was going much faster than what it did.

I believe if they do that here they can solve the issue of the bike looking "stupid"

More than just speed makes this look "stupid"

can't wait for my awesome bike se even if slow ff7 was amazeing add to cash shop plz afterall you did waste dev costs if you dont and all...

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Originally Posted by Malzian

This is not a mount that will be available in game. It was revealed at the end of one of the Live Letters and their statement was that it looked stupid at the current ground mount speed and would need to be significantly faster to make sense. They also said that due to this the idea was scrapped and would not ever be released.

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And the Mana Cutter doesn't look stupid at ground mount speed? How is this any different?

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

To be fair, it would be funny to have this tricked-out motorcycle with one horsepower.

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