Since we won't be able to fly in the old areas.....

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

the problem with adding flight to old zones is that they weren't originally designed to accommodate players able to travel along the Z axis (i.e. unlike in 3.0 areas where they have invisible boundaries to keep you from going out of bounds, 2.0's areas were not designed this way), so first off, they'd have to redesign every single zone with new boundaries

that in and of itself could take a lot of time and resources the devs would likely rather put toward new content

[Derio]

Most likely they will find some grindy way to make it where we can increase the run speed of our chocobo for 2.0 areas.

[VirusChris]

Most likely they will find some grindy way to make it where we can increase the run speed of our chocobo for 2.0 areas.

I would LOVE to have Ground Mounts faster in the 2.0 areas because sometimes Treasure Maps, Hunts, and FATEs are super far away in some areas like East Shroud and LLN and I like to be able to travel faster.

[NozomiKei]

I support increased mount speed in 2.0 areas after doing something like completing all aether currents plus all of the 3.0 siteseeing log. Flying in them would be totally amazing but I would still be pretty satisfied with a simple speed increase.

[Kaedan94]

the problem with adding flight to old zones is that they weren't originally designed to accommodate players able to travel along the Z axis (i.e. unlike in 3.0 areas where they have invisible boundaries to keep you from going out of bounds, 2.0's areas were not designed this way), so first off, they'd have to redesign every single zone with new boundaries

that in and of itself could take a lot of time and resources the devs would likely rather put toward new content

This simply isn't true.

There are no invisible boundaries in the new areas except for the actual edge of the map. There's nothing about the old maps that would need to be redesigned. They'd simply have to code the Z axis movement in.

[Gramul]

the Mounts in HW Areas are that fast because the Areas are that much bigger than old Areas, i see no reason to increase Speed in the smal 2.0 Areas.

Other than regular travel being a big waste of time.

[MatthiasS]

Fastest ground mount: Cloud's Motorbike. Price: 20 USD. Please look forward to it.

....You know, as I typed that satirically, I realized I would seriously consider buying that if you could ramp it off stuff and do fancy tricks.

[Drako]

They already said they would increase mount speed in old areas. I don't recall which letter or interview it was awhile back. I don't know why yoshi pulled a 180 on it. It would certainly be nice. The reason he said he wanted to add it was because he felt bad we would be smoking fast in the xpac, but get nothing in the old area.

[Yumi_umi]

Yoshi said they wouldn't increase mount ground speed but instead an increase of flying speed is more likely to happen.

[VirusChris]

^Which is bull that they would neglect Ground Mount speed but increase Flying Speed. Oh come man, not faster than the current Flying Mount but I like to travel the old 2.0 areas faster than I do right now.