Wings instead of JUST flying mounts?

[BunnyHop]

What brought you to that conclusion? Why would they need to be different from any mount already in the game? I'd sure as heck still use my other mounts. I like my other mounts.

Uhm either you misunderstood what I was trying to say. Or I misunderstood your second question.


What I was trying to say earlier is:
If we get wings, most people would not bother using their mounts to travel around. They would just pop their wings and travel/fly.
New players wouldn't even bother getting the questline for a chocobo, they would just wait until they can get their wings (unless it gets Gated behind a certain level limit).

So with this in mind, as a mount lover myself I find it very sad to see that all the work and design that devs put behind for creating mounts, would become a waste.

From my own experience, I started playing this game 3/4 months ago. I bought the game but I also bought Heavensward digital collectors edition so I have a Griffin.
With wings added to the game, my Griffin would become a rare sight because I would be one of the very few people who still uses their mounts to travel around.

Perhaps I am exaggerating, or maybe not. Either way, I don't want to see Wings become obsolute rendering the use of mounts to become (almost) useless.

You said adding wings would make other mounts useless. Why?

Already explained above.

@edit, you explained your thoughts, not your reasoning. Why would people just abandon chocobos and mounts in favor of wings if wings acted the same as any other mount?

I thought that it was obvious from my comments above...


To answer your question:
Because of lazyness and or convenient/easiness. Whenever a possibility arises to do certain things faster and or easier, people will do just that.

I also agree on other peoples arguments being against this lore wise etc.