Suggestion: Mount> Cloud's Bike

[Yamimarik]

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You sir have been a pleasure to talk with so far! I really enjoy the conversation

I just want more specific Summoner oriented fan service, but I'm a Summoner addict so... I'm wanting Yuna, Eiko, Garnet, and Rydia stuff out the waazoo! I'll be honest, I really don't care much for FF7 or Cloud specifically, but I think it would be awesome if we did get his bike, I'm just scared that if they didn't implement it correctly, it would just end up a big mess @.@

I really like your ideas of the implementation and I could see how that would work, especially the Cid getting blueprints and forging one himself!

[Mugiawara]

Uh, I care.
I'm someone.

I don't want everything casually dumped in Eorzea. I'll take the occasional nod or gift, but I want this world to be developed far more than I want to see stuff from an old game. Eorzea's pretty interesting. It has potential to be fondly regarded without using references as a crutch.

Yeah a lot of people care for the lore/story, and that's fine. I personally hate it, and to be the worst in all the FF's I ever played.
[I'm not saying it's bad...but it's just bleh to me, it has it's moments y'know?]
It would be so much better, if my character has interaction stead of a boring nod...
GW2 spoiled me with a bit of choices for my character and she talked. >>

You have no idea how a motorcycle works if you think it's even remotely feasible for us to have one as a mount. It's not going to happen because it can't.

It's a Fantasy game...we have Magitek's anything can happen lol.

[Shougun]

You sir have been a pleasure to talk with so far! I really enjoy the conversation

I just want more specific Summoner oriented fan service, but I'm a Summoner addict so... I'm wanting Yuna, Eiko, Garnet, and Rydia stuff out the waazoo! I'll be honest, I really don't care much for FF7 or Cloud specifically, but I think it would be awesome if we did get his bike, I'm just scared that if they didn't implement it correctly, it would just end up a big mess @.@

I really like your ideas of the implementation and I could see how that would work, especially the Cid getting blueprints and forging one himself!

I feel inadequate responding without a gif/photo... But I've also enjoyed talking with you :P

I see clothing as a great fan service option so I hope you get some of that. I imagine an easy way to see a fan service bonanza would make an NPC in ARR have dreams of other worlds, and then we inspire them to tell their stories and make works by turning those dreams into reality (clothing and other objects). That way SE doesn't "have" to bring a character from the world in order to introduce the gear (or worry about ruining their character's plot), and the items are still coming from Eorzea which I think is better.

Edit: difference from this and Cloud suggestion I said was that I assume they will bring in a FF7 character, so I thought him or someone else handing a photograph would be neat- since you could use that as a housing item and also start the fenrir quest. Otherwise yeah they're similar focus on inspiration and connecting the world without affecting any other FFs cannon.

Certainly I can understand your concerns about the bike not fitting though.. XD, that is one of the reasons I think waiting a little bit longer for SE to evolve the story and some areas would help. (Also not tossing it in as a 20 second FATE, since the bike is a mount you might want to make it feel good to obtain/respect).

[Riviere]

He has a point though, hence them Like!s xD.

His point is invalid, he only has likes from people that are butthurt over housing. Developers have multiple teams working on different aspects of the game, they don't remove people working on server issues to work on vanity items. The people that liked his post have no idea of how it works and they firmly believe that the programmers are also texture artists, 3D modelers, layout designers, community managers and the composer, just to name a few.

[reivaxe]

Got a suggestion. How about they focus less on mounts, minions, emotes and vanity crap and more on server resources and getting this game up to snuff so everyone has the ability to enjoy all aspects of the game. Once they can stop using server stability, resources, strain as an excuse then go back to the crap that seems to be taking frontline priority so far in this game.

Hmmm ...


It's a damned Sub MMO, they should be able to handle both ..

Also, there needs to be MORE dances, mounts, minis, emotes, animations and "vanity crap". I need more vanity crap that I can actually get that looks good >:[

[RiceisNice]

Motorcycle mounts? Sure. I've seen enough crazy things from playing WoW that I can see it working with FFXIV's mount physics.

The Cloud's bike is a big no from me, and for the same reason why I don't particularly like Lightning's event. She's overplayed for the FF series in general that it really feels like that Lightning is SE's precious daughter. I don't mind nods (like Guardian corp uniform) and fun cross overs (dragon quest) as long as it reasonably fits. Lightning Strikes literally feels like it was shoved in with the cross-dimension travel (which can be justified with Shantotto's unravel).

[Chiramu]

"Lore wise" this changed with the horse mounts from Frontlines.

Still, I don't want more FFVII. It's already over-hyped enough as it is.

[HeroSamson]

Suggestion: No.

This is FFXIV:ARR... not FFVII.

Go to character config > Log filters > general and scroll down to /tell and you will see in the text box Cloud strife and Tifa Lockhart. FF7 characters.

Also a lot of references to old games and trust me, in future expansions I can see them bringing old bosses from old games and SE wont say a word cause well that would ruin the surprise.

Cloud of darkness is coming to FFXIV and if you have seen the hildebrand quest ultros makes a appearance.

Though I know they wont release the FF7 motorcycle because Yoshi would say sorry that bike was made for cloud and only cloud just like they turned down music from terra's magitek armor.

[Tashigi]

geez who invited this hater

The senses of common.

[Luvbunny]

It's called FINAL FANTASY game, ever heard of that? You know the branded FINAL FANTASY that spawned 15 games in the series? So yes, Fan Service is a must. Story and lore be damned. You have your main story, all the other fancy useless junk and minion, pretty gears that do nothing but making you look cute can all come flooding the game without having a relevant story whatsoever. Let those who wants to dress like other FF iconic characters get their wish. When you have a strong brand like FF, it would be silly to not take advantage of all of those iconic characters. The only main goal for this game is to make money and provide "fun-addictive-accessible" short term "candy crush" type of entertainment. Log in-log out, take your daily ride, cap your weekly, and go do OTHER STUFFS and STOP PLAYING THIS GAME more than 3 hours a day.