Thoughts on the new Letter from the Producer? (May 20)

[Neptune]

In an earlier interview with a magazine or a fansite, they gave their reasoning (excuse? lol) that they hadn't implemented chocobos yet because the anima teleportation system already covers transportation so they need to work on other things that chocobos can be used for.

A flimsy response, yes, but it is what it is. My guess is that they still need to do a lot of work in the areas of art assets, motion capturing, and animation, but who knows.

Anyway, as far as what to use chocobos for, I have plenty of ideas in my Chocobo megathread. Please let me know what you think: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/10792-DevTalk-Chocobo-Thread.-Riding!-Raising!-Racing!-You-Know-You-Want-Your-Fix

I doubt they didn't do a riding animation in the mocap session. Unless they have an internal mocap studio. If thinking about the usefulness of anima is all the thinking they've done on chocobos, how sad. Anima isn't that useful. Most people don't want to use it. Even if chocobos were only rented out of the 3 cities, that would be fine for a start. Baffling. SE is never going to catch up with this level of cluelessness.

[Rentahamster]

I doubt they didn't do a riding animation in the mocap session. Unless they have an internal mocap studio.

Well, actually, there already are riding animations, as you can see in stuff like the archer and conjurer class quests. I was thinking more along the lines of mounting, dismounting, emotes, advanced riding actions, etc)