Company Seals for your own chocobo THATS IT?!

[Reika]

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.

But you seem to want chocobo's and related quest for them to be so difficult that it takes an epic raid quest for a full party of R50+ to obtain... Thats sillyness for the acquisition of basic ground transportation. I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't mind a quest to be involved, but nothing that will prevent people in their 20's from getting one.

I expect there to be an epic quest for say owning an airship.... but a ground mount, no.

[CDG]

The quest in XI was a bit too much imo :\ I gave up on it quite quickly when I looked at all the details online. I didn't have any problem with renting one since I basically went from crag > camp or Outpost > camp.. couldn't use chocobos in Sea or Sky so going thru the trouble of getting my own chocobo personally didn't seem worth it. Also, I'd like to add, does anyone remember how long FFXI was out before they added chocobo raising to THAT game? lol I believe that's a point everyone has failed to bring up.

Either way, they're eventually going to add it and that's been said for a while now. Everyone just like to complain about everything. These forums make me so sad sometimes.

Oh and btw, stop doing the r25 dungeon with 4 r50s and complaining that it's easy lmao stupid people.

[Darte]

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.

[Seif]

Are you trying to say SE chose the easiest possible route to do sonething?! A content addition so minimal that not even the most pessimistic of players could have seen it coming?! Surely this is the first feature ever that doesn't live up to FF-standards! Oh yeah it's kind of a trend with XIV developement and has been for the past 13 months. Not saying we should be ok with such low standards but I wonder if there really is anyone listening at all?

[User201109011315]

Are you trying to say SE chose the easiest possible route to do sonething?! A content addition so minimal that not even the most pessimistic of players could have seen it coming?! Surely this is the first feature ever that doesn't live up to FF-standards! Oh yeah it's kind of a trend with XIV developement and has been for the past 13 months. Not saying we should be ok with such low standards but I wonder if there really is anyone listening at all?

wow you're even worse than me now.

[Firon]

oh..and just a last thing

How to get Chocobos in the Final Fantasy Series.

FFII, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X, XII, XIII - Reach a chocobo forest (or other game equivalent like rent in XII) for a 'rental' chocobo, no 'personal' chocobo, unless you count Boko. Yep, sure took lots of work and had plenty of "rpg elements" for the mount.

FFVII - 'rental chocobo' - Reach chocobo footprints and equip the Chocobo Lure materia.
'personal chocobo' - Get far enough on the storyline.

FFIX - reach the chocobo forest. Talk to the moogle. You now have a 'personal' chocobo. Weee.

I'm glad someone else said this people are just living off FF 11 to much, they need to just let it go for real, chocobo's are apart of the world its normal to them they don't need to quest to ride a damn chocobo.....

[Teknoman]

We have no idea how many Grand Company quests you have to do to rank up again, and some may even force players to infiltrate some of the beast tribe strongholds.

Honestly this will most likely be so much better than the long quest that people had to do to gain a personal chocobo. Also chocobos will be used in battle among other things in the future, so can we not complain about an introductory phase for something EVERYONE wants?

[Pandastirfry]

oh..and just a last thing

How to get Chocobos in the Final Fantasy Series.

FFII, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X, XII, XIII - Reach a chocobo forest (or other game equivalent like rent in XII) for a 'rental' chocobo, no 'personal' chocobo, unless you count Boko. Yep, sure took lots of work and had plenty of "rpg elements" for the mount.

FFVII - 'rental chocobo' - Reach chocobo footprints and equip the Chocobo Lure materia.
'personal chocobo' - Get far enough on the storyline.

FFIX - reach the chocobo forest. Talk to the moogle. You now have a 'personal' chocobo. Weee.

hell, how did you get your chocobo in FFXI,

Rental:
go to Jeuno, buy guasebit grass from the AH, "feed" a chocobo for however long that quest took (it was ten years ago, I forget). Yay you have "Proven your worth" through mighty sitting on you butt and not falling asleep (if you felt like sitting in game the whole time, I didn't I went and did something fun)

Personal:
Go to Jeuno (when they first released) buy an egg, go to one of the main city's stables, give them your egg, log out and come back in a week or month, Yay you now have a personal chocobo...so very challenging

[Velhart]

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[Teknoman]

hell, how did you get your chocobo in FFXI,

Rental:
go to Jeuno, buy guasebit grass from the AH, "feed" a chocobo for 5hrs. Yay you have "Proven your worth" through mighty sitting on you butt and not falling asleep (if you felt like sitting in game the whole time, I didn't I went and did something fun)

Personal:
Go to Jeuno (when they first released) buy an egg, go to one of the main city's stables, give them your egg, log out and come back in a week or month, Yay you now have a personal chocobo...so very challenging

Maybe, but werent personal chocobos that were purchased slower than rentals, unless you went through a decent breeding process/other things? Besides, we'll have plenty of time for things like that when we get to train our Chocobos for battle or whatever else they have planned.