chocobo raising aside (as i think this was one of the best mount related features of ff11)

Anima should be left as is. It's amazingly useful to be able to teleport, but if you over use it, your stuck.

What they need to do is add chocobo vendors at the camps and citys. That work in the same way as ff11. You pay x amount of gil to ride a chocobo until you get off it.

So, to save anima you can rent a chocobo to run from uldah to horizon to hand in a leve quest or something. This would also give the game a way of removing gil out of the game. (a problem yoshi-p has previously highlighted).

While this wouldn't make every amazingly happy, it a) wouldn't be difficult to implement, b) would solve several problems at once and c) finally bring one of the largely staple parts of FF lore into the game.