Flying Chocobos Confirmed

[Vejjiegirl]

I didn't want flying mounts at all really. I think it takes away some of the sense of exploration and if you think there's no danger in the world now there will be even less when you are flying everywhere, at least it wont be everywhere.

Yoshi-P mentioned that the skies are controlled mostly by the Dragons. I'm sure it will still be as dangerous as walking around on the ground.
Also exploring floating islands sounds amazing ^^!

[Mindylou]

VERY pleased about flying mounts...hopefully in the future many many zones will incorporate them!!
Loved flying in wow and will love it here too!
good job SE!

[Miya_Carbuncle]

The only thing that disappoints me is that the chocobo flying seems to be a unique mount instead of the chocobo we acquired at around lvl 20 or so based on the name 'black chocobo'. I'd strongly prefer to ride my Twiggy instead. I mean I named her, that makes her special as far as I'm concerned. c: Why can't we buy a special nut or something that allows our chocobos to fly as well?

I hope the flying sticks to special zones fit for it as well. In Wow, as somehow else has said, it's merely a perc and it makes traveling less interesting.

Not that I enjoy the slow debuff... why SE ;;

[Xenor]

If you don't want to use flying mounts just ride the thing along the ground, except in the bits where flying is the only option to access a certain point on the map.

[BreathlessTao]

Yoshi-P mentioned that the skies are controlled mostly by the Dragons. I'm sure it will still be as dangerous as walking around on the ground.

...which is about as dangerous as running around in the cities? 8) I mean you can totally get stuck in objects!

But yeah to sum it up: 6 flying mounts being worked on, one being the chocobo; 7th one hinted at; flying is completely seamless in 3.0 zones, you can take off, fly, land, run then take off again anywhere in those places; also, single-rider airships announced but no details given yet.

[HumsterMKX]

Come to think about it....

Moogle flying mounts!

[Narukuchan]

Well I for one am happy because one of the best part of FF IX was the flying Chocobo and to ACTUALLY have something in-game which I always keep blabbing about is +10000

And for those of you who aren't fond of this, there are other flying mounts coming so stop with the doom and gloom already.

[Warlyx]

COOL !!! , funny because wow removes flying and FFXIV Add it lmao , good move SE!

[Vejjiegirl]

...which is about as dangerous as running around in the cities?

>.< Darn those crafty objects!

[WellFooled]

I really wish you could see the stream because thats exactly whats happening. We will need them to reach the new world, floating islands, and possible aerial battles w/ the primal Bismark, etc. so I dont think it will "distance" us from it. In wow, they weren't really necessary to do anything. Just a perk.

You can see some of the in-air areas in these keynote slides http://imgur.com/a/frEwz

That's great news! Thanks so much for the link too! I was looking around the internet for something just like that.