Concerns Regarding Chocobo Cost

[Anapingofness]

O_O Chocobos being attacked by fiends? Dear Jeebus... Never! That's a horrible idea! Why would you ever want to discourage an exploration of your world? What's the harm in just looking around a place?

Korbei kinda went there too. I approve with ... well, ALL of what he said. Especially the bit about elitism.

However, MY concern about chocobos is simply this.

Let's take a step back and look at FFXI for a moment and let it lead into FFXIV.

Yes, you can rent chocobos after doing a god awful, 4hr quest. (Hint, hint SE. Don't do that again, please)
And yes, after you do that quest you can rent a chocobo from cities, certain outposts and teleport crystals.
Also, you can raise your own chocobo. Which is all fine and dandy until you realize that you can raise it to be slower than the damned rent-a-birds. However, you cannot make it faster than the rental chickens.
Did I mention that it takes about a month to raise?

Dear, SE, if I have to do do an initial quest that takes 4 real life hours to be able to ride a chocobo and then, if I decide/have (the personal ones are really the way to go since every zone does not have a chocobo vendor-person) to raise a chicken of my own.... And that raising process takes a month- Then let the damn bird be faster than the rentals!

Which is also, a rather huge hint to SE. = =;;;

Closing Remarks my fine ladies and gents~
I agree in that the rental chickens really will be more like you rent from city, get to where you need to and then they run off into the distance when you dismount/enough time has elapsed. However, I do not agree that players should be charged 10k for a rental. That's just dumb and it won't stabilize the economy. It'll just make the lower level players annoyed.

The economy will stabilize itself once there is something to spend money on (for those players who have accumulated a stupid amount of it. I am not one of those players lulz).

For example:
I suggested a while ago that SE brings about Mog Houses and Gardens (Only updated and made more awesome). The only other game that I've played with Houses was LOTRO. The difference was that MH's had a better handle on how you can decorate than LOTRO but LOTRO actually had you buy the house and I think they also had a 'rent' thing that took money every 'month'. In any case, things like furnishings and barber shops will eat up money just as well as a 10k/hr chicken.

And buddy, for 10k/hr chicken that bird better be made of gold and have the ability to fly. D=

That is all! Thanks for reading!

EDIT!!!:

Chain and VydarrTyr are awesome for saying what they did. Especially VydarrTyr ^^ Thank you for pointing that out! -hands cookie-

I feel as if far too many people are stuck on the "Well because I had to do it the 'hard' way so should everyone else" bandwagon of angst, instead of for pushing for the game to be more enjoyable for everyone.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

O_O Chocobos being attacked by fiends? Dear Jeebus... Never! That's a horrible idea! Why would you ever want to discourage an exploration of your world? What's the harm in just looking around a place?

It is confirmed that being on a chocobo in FFXIV will not make you immune to mobs. This is partly, I guess, because mounted fights will be made possible.

Also, to answer OP, how about the rental cost of a chocobo to be like 1% of your total gils or .5%, that way, it's a good gil sink for over the top rich people who got rich while playing in the beta we are in so that maybe, eventually new players might catch up. Plus it will make it so that you will always be able to rent a chocobo, unless you have 1gil left...

As for the level at which you should be able to start renting, I think 15 would be a good level to access a quest for it.

[Anapingofness]

It is confirmed that being on a chocobo in FFXIV will not make you immune to mobs. This is partly, I guess, because mounted fights will be made possible.

Ah... I see. I wasn't aware of the possibility for mounted fights. Which, to be honest does sound cool. o o; Thanks for clarifying!

However...

My thing is that we should be encouraged to explore the world not deterred from it. Even if we are too low of levels to do anything to them or even in that area.

I fear by not allowing players to do that we are limiting world and the overall game experience. ^^;