Company Seals for your own chocobo THATS IT?!

[viion]

I was hoping I could just go to the ice cream van and get one.

[Kiote]

The Number of Seals and the number of quests and the difficulty of the quest are not the problem.

The problem is there is no specific chocobo related content required for obtaining a personal chocobo and that is weak.

[Estellios]

I would rather have quests/activities later to bond with my chocobo like they said in the preview thing. It's like the opposite of 11's in that it is usable immediately and get attached to it after you can use it, which I approve cause walking everywhere blows.

[Andrien]

Needs more caps lock for rage post.

[Felis]

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.

Prove it with a video how you manage the dungeon under 30 min with a rank 25-30 class party
We're talking here about new players, not someone who have 1 or more r50 classes

[Darte]

You guys forget one thing.

People wanted chocobos for travel only because there were no prior options for traveling beforehand, you're now getting it.

People are now bitching that there is no epic questline to obtain said chocobo. Once again you forget that this is Just targeting the traveling problem. Your content that includes chocobos will be included further down the line.

Consider this: Rental chocobos are the slower than Company chocobos. Devs have already stated that chocobo raising will come in some form and in my opinion will be more taxing on time and resources than company chocobos. From what they are stating, chocobos will be able to do battle as well eventually.

This means choco raising will involve raising either or both:
1: Chocobo stats for battle how much it can attack for, endurance level etc)
2: Speed: I have no doubt that personal raised chocobos will be even faster than company chocobos, since you have the option of focusing on raising its speed.

Don't complain that theres nothing to do with chocobos right now. The main point of this update was to allow faster travel, and thats what you are getting.

By the time noobs hit level 10, they can easily afford a chocobo ride by renting one.
By level 20-25, they can participate in the escort quests to get more seals. Depending on the restriction of how many people can participate/ how often you can do this/ the reward of escort quests, players will be able to afford the company chocobos quite easily enough. I suspect by level 30, most, if not all, players will have a personal chocobo of their own simply by doing the escort quests, then rank 25 dungeon quest and whatever new company quests get introduced in 1.19.

Level 50 folks who have access to completing the darkhold quest will have a much easier time in this regard simply because they have access to a higher level quest that offers more seals. They also have access to the lower level escort quest which they will be able to solo easily enough.

The one thing that is the unknown factor is the company induction itself. If i recall from NPC chats, getting into a company will cost X amount of seals, which I'm betting will be quite low. There is a chance it could be 1000 seals or it could be even 250 seals, I don't know, we'll find out in 1.19.

I have a feeling that once you get inducted into the company, your rank will rise from recruit to whatever the next level is. However, there is still a chance that the possibility of induction simply locking you into a company. This means you might have to spend Y amount of seals to rank up to something other than a recruit.

Either way, you can bet your chocobos that there will be tantalizing equipment that will become available to purchase once you are fully inducted. It'll just be a matter of deciding what you want first.

[Gramul]

I'm fine with is costing seals, but it should cost WAY more that a measly 3,000.

[Renshi]

You're gonna cry when the Grand Company quests may give you only around 50-100 Seals and telling yourself why you didn't preserve your 1'000 Seals =D

[zaviermhigo]

I can't stand when people who are ignorant about FFXI think that we want something like XI because we want something a little difficult and maybe a quest for it. I don't think anyone wanted to wait 8 hours, trading one gysahl green an hour to a sick chocobo, to receive the ability to ride a rental chocobo. People just wanted a quest with a little lore. sheesh.

[Kiote]

You guys forget one thing.

People wanted chocobos for travel only because there were no prior options for traveling beforehand, you're now getting it.

People are now bitching that there is no epic questline to obtain said chocobo. Once again you forget that this is Just targeting the traveling problem. Your content that includes chocobos will be included further down the line.

Consider this: Rental chocobos are the slower than Company chocobos. Devs have already stated that chocobo raising will come in some form and in my opinion will be more taxing on time and resources than company chocobos. From what they are stating, chocobos will be able to do battle as well eventually.

This means choco raising will involve raising either or both:
1: Chocobo stats for battle how much it can attack for, endurance level etc)
2: Speed: I have no doubt that personal raised chocobos will be even faster than company chocobos, since you have the option of focusing on raising its speed.

Don't complain that theres nothing to do with chocobos right now. The main point of this update was to allow faster travel, and thats what you are getting.

By the time noobs hit level 10, they can easily afford a chocobo ride by renting one.
By level 20-25, they can participate in the escort quests to get more seals. Depending on the restriction of how many people can participate/ how often you can do this/ the reward of escort quests, players will be able to afford the company chocobos quite easily enough. I suspect by level 30, most, if not all, players will have a personal chocobo of their own simply by doing the escort quests, then rank 25 dungeon quest and whatever new company quests get introduced in 1.19.

Level 50 folks who have access to completing the darkhold quest will have a much easier time in this regard simply because they have access to a higher level quest that offers more seals. They also have access to the lower level escort quest which they will be able to solo easily enough.

The one thing that is the unknown factor is the company induction itself. If i recall from NPC chats, getting into a company will cost X amount of seals, which I'm betting will be quite low. There is a chance it could be 1000 seals or it could be even 250 seals, I don't know, we'll find out in 1.19.

I have a feeling that once you get inducted into the company, your rank will rise from recruit to whatever the next level is. However, there is still a chance that the possibility of induction simply locking you into a company. This means you might have to spend Y amount of seals to rank up to something other than a recruit.

Either way, you can bet your chocobos that there will be tantalizing equipment that will become available to purchase once you are fully inducted. It'll just be a matter of deciding what you want first.

We dont want a Super long difficult epic quest line with 8 hours of content and an impossible boss fight or anything remotely like that.

We just want A QUEST.

We do not want to simply buy our Chocobo. We do not want to do a bunch of entirely unrelated activities to earn a secondary currencery to buy our Chocobos.

We just want a freakin quest that explains why there are now Chocobos where ours came from and how we earned it's trust.

Buying your Chocobo for what WILL be a very common currency is not fun in any way. The Travel problem was solved by rentals. We don't need more things just thrown at us without being incorporated into the world.