Give us dragon riding!

We've seen from the new WOW reveal that there will be a new flight mechanic which is not actually true flight but will involve physical forces - momentum, gravity and the like.

Having come to FF14 from GW2, they have similar flying mounts as well where flight is really fun and not just a way to travel from point A to B in a straight line while ignoring all terrain restrictions.

Please give us similar flight mechanics for 7.0 or earlier so instead of having to travel everywhere on foot again, we can fly (but limited and fun)!

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I saw the word limited and nearly panicked.
Technically they could do more with our chocobo but…. Yeah.

if they do this, I'm heading straight to the shop and buying cruise chaser.
Just so I can do a dive on it xD

Really bad idea, it's enough that WoW is now desperate enough to copy other MMOs but you don't have to make everything the same actually. If you like the GW2 systems then go play GW2, it's a crazy revolutionary idea i know but you can actually play...two MMOs!

FF14 has easy to access flight and that is good, same as the GW2 system is good.

So please stop with the "I play this MMO now so i have to change it into what i liked about this other MMO" attitude. Just play the other MMO then.

we already have dragon mounts

I asked my au ra gf and she said later. feelsbadman

I'm waiting for the Dragonriding system to end up another one of WoW's crash and burn failures when it turns out you'll need to grind some weird dragon energy feed for 6 months before your dragon can do more than plummet nose-down into the ground.

FFXIV also doesn't have the zone design for such a system to be interesting. Top of the skybox is already fairly low and we don't have the seamless zone transitions that WoW has.

I would love to ride those Budugas-- oh, you mean those WoW Dragon? Meh it sucks IMO.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

Meh it sucks IMO.

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Like those Budugas?

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

Really bad idea, it's enough that WoW is now desperate enough to copy other MMOs but you don't have to make everything the same actually. If you like the GW2 systems then go play GW2, it's a crazy revolutionary idea i know but you can actually play...two MMOs!

FF14 has easy to access flight and that is good, same as the GW2 system is good.

So please stop with the "I play this MMO now so i have to change it into what i liked about this other MMO" attitude. Just play the other MMO then.

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This entire game would not exist in its current state if it hadn't heavily borrowed from WoW. Yoshida has said in no uncertain terms. I don't really mind them borrowing good aspects of other games.

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Originally Posted by LittleImp

This entire game would not exist in its current state if it hadn't heavily borrowed from WoW. Yoshida has said in no uncertain terms. I don't really mind them borrowing good aspects of other games.

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Yes but there is a difference between blatantly just stealing other ideas and you know taking some inspiration from others.

As i said if you make every MMO the same it will only hurt the game in the long run. Better to make it your own instead of going around and literally stealing (WoW basically copy pasted GW2 in this case) from other games.

Ok so you go on a thread telling Hrothgar players that they won't see any improvements because they're 2% of the playerbase, knowing full well that Square has been having issues dealing with the system in general...

...but you're here asking for flight mechanics ripped off from WoW? :|

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Originally Posted by Midareyukki

Ok so you go on a thread telling Hrothgar players that they won't see any improvements because they're 2% of the playerbase, knowing full well that Square has been having issues dealing with the system in general...

...but you're here asking for flight mechanics ripped off from WoW? :|

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guild wars 2 would be better xD

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

Like those Budugas?

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No no, they're great, better than those WoW dragon :)

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Originally Posted by Midareyukki

Ok so you go on a thread telling Hrothgar players that they won't see any improvements because they're 2% of the playerbase, knowing full well that Square has been having issues dealing with the system in general...

...but you're here asking for flight mechanics ripped off from WoW? :|

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Why not? They are two completely separate issues.

The team which is implementing hrothgar fixes are not necessarily the same team which implement flight mechanics since they require different skillsets. Why do people always think that developers are one humongous blob of entity?

I would’ve rather not had flying at all. Travel is already too easy in this game it’s boring. However now that its here and super convenient removing it wouldn’t be the way to go. You’re just opening the door for others to complain about it.

Flying and teleportation turned every zone into barren wastelands. You’d be lucky to find more than a bot down there gathering.

Dragon Flying will be just flight patch toy limited to expansion zones. We know it, because they specificaly state that it isn't flying.

And some things from dragon flying we have in FF XIV for years. Like condensation clouds. And even better: If you have PS5 controller you have these special, subtle and diverse vibrations. It's something that WoW will not have, because it's developers do not care about controller support.

If there will be something like "mount acrobatics" in FF XIV, cool. But I would not give too much credit to this feature both in WoW and FFXIV. It's just 5 minute toy.

The game I feel WoW developers should be looking at is GW2.

Sure, their mount system would take a massive overhaul of FFXIV and probably not worth it, but that game has a lot of good ideas behind it.

Give me their glam system...I dont care about that terrible game other than that one feature.

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Originally Posted by AlyaNimfa

Give me their glam system...I dont care about that terrible game other than that one feature.

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I look at the appearances collections tab and weep on top of my glamour dresser.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

Really bad idea, it's enough that WoW is now desperate enough to copy other MMOs but you don't have to make everything the same actually. If you like the GW2 systems then go play GW2, it's a crazy revolutionary idea i know but you can actually play...two MMOs!

FF14 has easy to access flight and that is good, same as the GW2 system is good.

So please stop with the "I play this MMO now so i have to change it into what i liked about this other MMO" attitude. Just play the other MMO then.

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No fun allowed. Let's continue to get same old lifeless flat maps with no fun to have.

14 is running on so much tech debt, legacy code it would take an insane about of time and money to spaghetti physics-based flight together. Not to mention that there's scarcely any reason for players to be out in the open world after MSQ anyways.

Wait for FF14-2. Please look forward to it.