Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
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.
Again, this is just the starting point for travel options. If you want a comparison, take world of warcraft. I haven't played it in years so excuse me if I get a few things wrong. From what I remember, you get access to a mount around the 20s (i think they lowered that even more now) that gave you 60% speed. Further down the line, you could by mounts that had 100% speed, and even further more speed/flying etc etc.

What the devs are introducing right now are 2 variations of chocobos, one that is timed at 10 minutes and is slow (but faster than walking), and another that has no time limit and is faster than rental.

You're right though, this isn't one of those "how I earned its trust" chocobos. These are wartime steeds that are given to those who earn it. Remember, NPCs have said there aren't enough chocos to go around. The reason why is because companies are in dire need of steeds to give to their forces. When you become a member of a company, you are able to earn a chocobo through quests/missions/escorts by earning seals, the currency of the companies. This currency says, hey i'm not just some random dude who joined up for the sake of getting my own chocobo. You earned those seals, so you earned that chocobo allotment.

The quest that explains where your chocobo came from IS chocobo raising, which is NOT being implemented in 1.19.