Company Seals for your own chocobo THATS IT?!

[Reika]

Why does it seem like 75% of the posts here have completely missed the most important part of attaining the personal chocobo? You have to become a full member of a grand company first. They could make it take a year of grinding daily quests before you attain full membership. They could ask that you complete Drazmael Darkhold or attach 5 pieces of materia to an item. You guys have no idea yet you're in here complaining that it's going to be too easy. Get a grip please. Hell, it will have been a year since the game was released before we even have the opportunity to get them. So if all it takes is talking to some NPCs to join the company of my choice and bam I'm able to spend 3k seals to up and buy my chocobo. If that's how they've decided to handle it I'm good with that. I've waited long enough.

Actually... I think there will be one quest if any to become a full member. As of now all we have to do is go talk to the recruiting officer as a recruit to become a full member.

[Cycloptichorn]

yes! the poor new people... they will have to get like two other people to go take out the first low level dungeon which can be beat in like 10minutes and then they might have to do a few escort quests !!!

BS, that dungeon can't be beat in 10 minutes, by people who have never done it before...

Reika is absolutely right - the fact is that not everything is designed to be challenging for people who are already maxed-out. Imagine if they DID have a quest to get a chocobo; it would either be difficult enough to challenge those of us who have various r50 jobs, or we would have people bitching about how 'easy and useless' the quest was.

Some folks are just never happy...

[Holland]

I think the only game where is hard to obtain a Chocobo is FFXI with its five hour quest. In all other FF's is always a rather simple quest/string of quests and Bam! you can mount chocobos. I think what has clouded your view is the time we have spent without other means of transportation, something akin to: "So, after a year with my two feet and anime to travel, now I can get chocobo just by doing this?" "This is not fair, it should be harder because of all I went through"

These are just Rented and Personal Chocobos issued by Grand Companies, a means of transportation, nothing more, nothing less. A question though, How do you get mounts in other MMO's? like Wow?

[syntaxlies]

yes! the poor new people... they will have to get like two other people to go take out the first low level dungeon which can be beat in like 10minutes and then they might have to do a few escort quests !!!

well how hard should getting a chocobo be, getting a mount isnt supposed to be endgame.

[Azurymber]

BS, that dungeon can't be beat in 10 minutes, by people who have never done it before...

Reika is absolutely right - the fact is that not everything is designed to be challenging for people who are already maxed-out. Imagine if they DID have a quest to get a chocobo; it would either be difficult enough to challenge those of us who have various r50 jobs, or we would have people bitching about how 'easy and useless' the quest was.

Some folks are just never happy...

pretty sure i beat that dungeon for the first time on the hardest boss in under 30 min....
then a day later beat it on the easiest boss in like 10 min...
its especially easy when you can just look at a map that tells you what to do.

-NOTHING- in this game... AT ALL... is challenging atm. Except maybe Dzamael speed run and thats more about being able to gather a bunch of mages than it really is a challenge

[Azurymber]

well how hard should getting a chocobo be, getting a mount isnt supposed to be endgame.

2-4 hour in depth quest line with drama about amal'jaa torturing chocobos they have kidnapped. and you gotta go save the poor baby chocobos and reunite them with their mom... something like that lol
....
you know... something meaningful

[Reika]

I think the only game where is hard to obtain a Chocobo is FFXI with its five hour quest. In all other FF's is always a rather simple quest/string of quests and Bam! you can mount chocobos. I think what has clouded your view is the time we have spent without other means of transportation, something akin to: "So, after a year with my two feet and anime to travel, now I can get chocobo just by doing this?" "This is not fair, it should be harder because of all I went through"

These are just Rented and Personal Chocobos issued by Grand Companies, a means of transportation, nothing more, nothing less. A question though, How do you get mounts in other MMO's? like Wow?

In wow you reach level 20 and pay close to nothing for basic mount training, then pay even less than nothing per mount of that training level.... and that is the permanent mount.

In XIV you have to become a full member of a company, which requires doing quests, then earn enough seals to buy an issuance.

So, it is actually harder to get a permanent mount in FFXIV than in WoW.

[Cycloptichorn]

pretty sure i beat that dungeon for the first time on the hardest boss in under 30 min....
then a day later beat it on the easiest boss in like 10 min...
its especially easy when you can just look at a map that tells you what to do.

Hmm let's see:

- 30 minutes is three times as long as 10 minutes, so you've already backtracked quite a bit

- I just ran the dungeon 3 times with 4 r50's doing a little farming the other day. It takes almost 10 minutes to pop the first gate, and that's if you are going pretty quick and know exactly what you are doing. So I'm going to go ahead and call BS on your second claim.

- Sure, lots of things are easy if you cheat. There's no solution for that.

-NOTHING- in this game... AT ALL... is challenging atm. Except maybe Dzamael speed run and thats more about being able to gather a bunch of mages than it really is a challenge

Things are a lot more challenging when you don't 'look at a map' where someone else has told you how to do it.

I think there are plenty of challenging things in this game; just not things that people want to do. Or are you telling me that you are running around killing the various r80-99 mobs we see without a challenge?

[Reinheart]

They may include quest/detailed story line for My Chocobo 2 when they add the chocobo breeding in so just think of My Chocobo 1 as something they put in quick for us for faster travel. My Chocobo 2 with more stats, color, etc.

At least that's how I would do it if I was working for them coming up with ideas.

[Holland]

2-4 hour in depth quest line with drama about amal'jaa torturing chocobos they have kidnapped. and you gotta go save the poor baby chocobos and reunite them with their mom... something like that lol
....
you know... something meaningful

Is it also a 2-4 hour in depth quest line to get mounts in other MMO's too?

Even if you put it this way, I think the in depth quest lines should not be for mere methods of transportation... Taking it more close to Final Fantasy in what Final Fantasy does it take two to four hours to complete the questline for chocobos once you have access to it?