Chocobos and Airships (09/22/2011)

[BloodPact]

Oh and another fun surprise, no requirements for using the airships...

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Why should we have any? Do you have to be a certain age (rank) or pass a test (quest) to ride a bus or boat? Same applies here.

[Kiote]

Why should we have any? Do you have to be a certain age (rank) or pass a test (quest) to ride a bus or boat? Same applies here.

The point of a game is to be entertaining. If you simply give everything to players then there is nothing to do.

MMOs are supposed to have more than just raids in them.

[BloodPact]

The point of a game is to be entertaining. If you simply give everything to players then there is nothing to do.

MMOs are supposed to have more than just raids in them.

True, but there also doesn't need to be a pre-requisite to enjoy each and every thing that is implemented in the game. For example: it makes sense for the Grand Companies to give you the little quests before opening the dungeons to you because they might want to see how good of a candidate you are for those tasks, but for an airship ticket, or a rent-a-chocobo? I would not have opposed if that was the case (like FFXI), but IMO development is not handing anything to the players in this case; if so, then there should have also been a pre-req for teleportation.

[Kiote]

True, but there also doesn't need to be a pre-requisite to enjoy each and every thing that is implemented in the game. For example: it makes sense for the Grand Companies to give you the little quests before opening the dungeons to you because they might want to see how good of a candidate you are for those tasks, but for an airship ticket, or a rent-a-chocobo? I would not have opposed if that was the case (like FFXI), but IMO development is not handing anything to the players in this case; if so, then there should have also been a pre-req for teleportation.

The only thing in this game with a prerequisite is the Grand Companies.

There is supposed to be a pre requ for Teleportation where in you had to go to the camp first. They broke that by allowing you to teleport people who had not yet been there.

This game hands us everything, I don't think it's too much to ask for at least a small piece of lore in the form of a quest to get an airship pass and a personal chocobo. I'm not asking them to make it impossibly hard..

[Cycloptichorn]

The only thing in this game with a prerequisite is the Grand Companies.

This is untrue. Many quests in the game have prerequisites, and many quests are prereqs for obtaining abilities.

[Teknoman]

The only thing in this game with a prerequisite is the Grand Companies.

There is supposed to be a pre requ for Teleportation where in you had to go to the camp first. They broke that by allowing you to teleport people who had not yet been there.

This game hands us everything, I don't think it's too much to ask for at least a small piece of lore in the form of a quest to get an airship pass and a personal chocobo. I'm not asking them to make it impossibly hard..

Dont they always create lore in game or out when implementing something new?

Also as far as chocobo usefulness, you'll run somewhere if you want to beat up some enemies, explore a dungeon, etc. I mean in XI, once you got your license, did you still run places or rent chocobos whenever possible? Also alot of the out of the way areas will be alot more accessible with chocobo transportation. So warp, mount up, and then dismount at the place of interest.

Plus you can get knocked off your chocobo anyway.

This is exactly my problem with it. Why even have rentals if everyone is going to have their own personal chocobo that's faster, doesn't cost anything, and can be called on anywhere? Rentals should at least cover something in the game in order to be worth adding, and that something can be accomplished by a gap between people who are able do a quest and those who are not.

I also find it somewhat annoying that we can still get aggro and get knocked off them by it like in FFXIII, rather than every other game in the series. Getting attacked by enemies while on a chocobo isn't very Final Fantasy.

They'll be using chocobos in battle at some point, so that makes sense. And rentals are there so people under a certain level can have something to ride as well. The XIV chocobo system is probably going to have more depth to it than any before it once things are said and done.

And for those of you with alts all over, will you keep those alts once the game starts charging? Even if you do, people had alts in XI to do white mage porting, yet there was still reason to ride Chocobos to out of the way areas (much like here) and reason to dismount (exploration of dungeons, instanced areas, cutscenes for battles, or just battles in general).

[DNO]

Why should we have any? Do you have to be a certain age (rank) or pass a test (quest) to ride a bus or boat? Same applies here.

My point exactly.

Again as Yoshi has said 1 million times they are gonna add content to chocos. We can breed them, fight with them. have them walk beside you, get different color in the future. THAT conent should have a story behind it and lore i get that.

But people this is just a faster means of travel. thats it!. it does not need lore.