Why exclude people from Chocobo raising?

[Camate]

Greetings,

Just as was mentioned in Letter from the Producer LIVE XV, as of patch 2.3 it will only be possible to raise chocobos if you are part of a free company that has a house; however, we are looking into making it possible to raise chocobos via chocobo porters as well in the future.

[Seif]

I don't know which is more disappointing:

-the fact that I can't access this content
-it's yet another purely visual thing without any depth whatsoever (feed choco an item to switch color doesn't really hold a candle next to VII,IX,XI & XIII-2 systems now does it?)

This almost makes me not care but not quite. It's still a breadcrumb of a feature dumbed down and placed out of reach.

[Archadius]

Greetings,

Just as was mentioned in Letter from the Producer LIVE XV, as of patch 2.3 it will only be possible to raise chocobos if you are part of a free company that has a house; however, we are looking into making it possible to raise chocobos via chocobo porters as well in the future.

Thank you Camate, but I think we require a little more information. The even bigger issue here is the fact no one has addressed the number of chocobos we will be allowed to raise in the stables. I understand it was stated "one, for now" in the live letter, but that fails to explain whether it's "one per FC member, with a max of 8* members' chocobos being raised at any given time" or "one chocobo at a time per FC, and the FC must decide the order in which its members chocobos will be raised".

Please clarify as this information is crucial for players to have before this content is released. Thank you!

*this number is for example purposes only

[ServerCollaps]

I don't know which is more disappointing:

-the fact that I can't access this content

This almost makes me not care but not quite. It's still a breadcrumb of a feature dumbed down and placed out of reach.

make one shout in any place of your choice that you are looking for a fc with a house and you'll get an invite in an instant

[dcdistro]

well belonging to a free company and owning a house should have special perks and benefits as for now there is not a hell of a lot of benefits to a free company or large house at that..!!! so join a big fc buy a house or do without.... the people who have worked together as a group / family should have some benefits... everyone feels like they are entitled to everything without working for it anymore in games and out of them...

[Phafi]

I don't know which is more disappointing:

-the fact that I can't access this content

This almost makes me not care but not quite. It's still a breadcrumb of a feature dumbed down and placed out of reach.

Cause getting 2mil between several people is SOOOO hard

[Souljacker]

Cause getting 2mil between several people is SOOOO hard

It doesn't matter. Chocobo raising and gardens are recycled content from XI that wasn't even all that terrific that it needed to be exclusive to FC's. In fact, it's kind of dumbed down from what it was in XI - at least Gardening is. Chocobo raising probably will be, too. SE is trying VERY hard to make their guild system feel like guilds in other games without copying those systems, but all it's doing is alienating players who want to participate in content.


Things like the ability to earn FC money, access to buying special heirlooms and vanity mounts by doing hard content as a group? Good idea they haven't implemented because it's in another game.
Things like only FC's being able to grow gardens and then it's only 1-2 people who can actually do it, decided by the leadership? Terrible and exclusionary practice.

SE is one of those companies who will always do the right thing... after they have tried everything else first.

[Valthein]

meh wait til personal housing all of this will be active on there. it is a lot of code they are writing from scratch gotta start somewhere then build on to it. what better place to start then with the housing system already in place, patience young padwans.

[Aegis]

meh wait til personal housing all of this will be active on there. it is a lot of code they are writing from scratch gotta start somewhere then build on to it. what better place to start then with the housing system already in place, patience young padwans.

I've been waiting for that for almost 4 years now. I doubt any time it will be in the next year.

[Noah_]

not to mention new FCs that are trying to buy a house cannot buy one because there is NO lots left on the server..... maybe adding more lots before even releasing content like this......