Quote Originally Posted by Malric View Post
The idea of seeing some newbie with a leaf over their head riding a legacy chocobo is rather disturbing to me.
Won't happen because you can only get a mount when you unlock the GC chocobo. And that's past lvl 20, when you can't use the leaf status anymore.

On another note, even if they did allow you ride mounts, it's not indicative if someone with the leaf riding a legacy chocobo 'bought' their chocobo, because the legacy chocobo is account-bound. Meaning any characters created on that account will have the legacy chocobo by default.