Don't add flying mounts

[swordrain]

Flying mounts didn't ruin WoW. Flying mounts didn't ruin world pvp. People not caring about world pvp ruined it.

On the other hand, currently, Eorzea doesn't need flying mounts.

I didn't say anything about it ruining, but it can't be denied it had a very negative effect on the "world" of warcraft, since the world is incredibly empty, running into other players became such an event, that they started to cross realm servers to try and get players to encounter each other. Then it was realized that the game developers had spent so much time with players apart, the game's PvE player interaction is outdated by years, and needs a lot of work, which they are selling as expansion content. It's had a massive negative impact on the game, I don't need to argue it, go argue it on the WoW forums if you want a 10 page dissertation on the bad it's done to the game.

[swordrain]

“I spoke a bit before about the expansion, and I said we were deciding on whether we should swim or fly. Well, we decided to go with flying so players can expect to look to the skies in the coming expansion.”

Thank you, I was looking for the exact quote, but I couldn't find it in time.

[Garlyle]

Thank you, I was looking for the exact quote, but I couldn't find it in time.

It means nothing about flying mounts; but you could very well expect things like travel to distant lands, flying island areas, etc.

Either way, again, I am pretty sure the design of the current areas is such that flying mounts literally wouldn't work in them, given the number of invisible walls and such present.

[swordrain]

It means nothing about flying mounts; but you could very well expect things like travel to distant lands, flying island areas, etc.

Either way, again, I am pretty sure the design of the current areas is such that flying mounts literally wouldn't work in them, given the number of invisible walls and such present.

Blizzard literally recreated the entire game world of Azeroth soley for the purpose of accomodating flying mounts, SE did a whole lot more work than that when they redeveloped this game from the gates of oblivion, them recreating the game world to make flying possible would seem quite easy in comparison to what they've already done. I'm just fearful is all. I like the way this game is constructed as it is, load screens and all, they have specific benefits to the game that I enjoy. I hope you are right an that they choose to change nothing. I really do.

[Aegis]

Blizzard literally recreated the entire game world of Azeroth soley for the purpose of accomodating flying mounts, SE did a whole lot more work than that when they redeveloped this game from the gates of oblivion, them recreating the game world to make flying possible would seem quite easy in comparison to what they've already done. I'm just fearful is all. I like the way this game is constructed as it is, load screens and all, they have specific benefits to the game that I enjoy. I hope you are right an that they choose to change nothing. I really do.

They mentioned in an interview (last year, I think) that the world wasn't designed to be viewed from above which is why the airships are only a brief CS rather than an actual ride. When FC/personal airships are introduced I would expect the to be in their own instanced areas.

[YeaniNah]

People not caring about world pvp ruined it..

LOLLLL

come on World Pvp ??? people who played FF11. prefered ff11 cos there was no world PVP ...cos come one do stuff and get PK all the time by an high lvl player who to affraid to fight people his own level.

And anyway FF14 mechanic isnt good for world PVP ... when you get attack you turn in battle mode. When you enter battle mode you can't change class. So do you see the image of people farming for crafting getting attack, can't change job. A BRD PK would have all avantage on that.

If you want world PVP and Yoshi accept ...i hope they make Server only world PVP and other server are not touch. and people who want pvp just need to tranfert there

[Alavastre]

I don't know where you got the idea they were adding them.

Also I'm pretty sure the zones are actually not designed in such a way that they would be flyable.

Yoshi P mentioned at some point that that was going to happen. That it would be an expansion and not an update.

However, the hate of flying mounts is rather ignorant of the facts of this game. First, we have small zones, WoW has very open and large zones. Second, WoW has PVP option with different factions, this game doesn't. Third, it will most likely be zone specific. So when you say, no flying mounts, you're generalizing something that shouldn't be generalized.

[Lovescake]

id prefer swimming with combat than flying..

bit like how Monster Hunter has the underwater fights with Ludroth, would be insane primal fight + make elemental resistances useful for once.

[khovel]

you are too late. there already exists 2 flying mounts. The Kobold mount, and the eyeball mount ( name escapes me currently ). Though they are more of a hovering mount, they still technically fly

[DoubleT]

Yoshi P mentioned at some point that that was going to happen. That it would be an expansion and not an update.

actually yoshi said the expansion would be centered around a sky theme an airships, he enver said we will get flying mounts an fly wherever we want. if you played xi, you know there is a endgame zone called Sky. I would think he was referring to something like that, an airships will be required to get there. Seeing as how he said his choices for the x-pack was Sky & Sea (both xi endgame zones)

that said, i dont think you all have anything to worry about, the zones are in fact not designed for flying. There is several places where you can glitch the zones, an jump/climb above the cliff edges, an actually walk on the parts of the maps that are not suppossed to be reached, an you can literally walk to the edge of the map zones, an see all of the 100's of layers SE used to make the zones in all of its glitchy wondernous. If we had the ability to instantly fly above the cliff edges, then everyone would always see the layers an it would look like crap. I'm pretty sure SE dont want us all to constantly see that stuff lol.

here is some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-zJslWi1VE
http://imgur.com/a/HUQoO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZPNV6cq5OM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNBnG0hOd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ISf-jMG3Os
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3DNoDXxepc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5vB3VZukY8

as you can see there is many, possibly hundreds of spots like this still in the game to this day. I know of a spot in East Shroud, where you can go down 6-7 levels below the map, it looks really messed up down there. So you could imagine what it would look like if you could instantly fly above all the edges an see all of the layers all the time.