Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
My guess is that enough players yelled "MOUNTS NOW OR /RAGEQUIT" that reality was changed.

No large project can ever avoid the quality triangle rule.

This game was released early because SE valued time and cost over quality (completion). Oddly enough, many players are acting in exactly the same way.

We have the same choice:

Pick one to suffer:
  • Cost: pay to play - get stuff faster and a better content
  • Time: wait for changes - play for free [for now] and and better content
  • Quality: weak content - play for free [for now], get stuff fast

I choose to be patient.
You are right! I tired myself by repeating, here and elsewhere, "The world is too small for chocobos... it will seem even smaller after they're introduced... people will get bored faster and desert even faster... stop the madness!!!" But no... Then I added... "Well, if they're adding chocobos after all, and airships, at least give them time to develop a nice, deep, layered system and the quests to get us there..." But no...

An Ancient Greek saying went something like: "Each city has the theater it deserves." Well, I paraphrase to say that many among the audience of these forums, mainly the loud, entitled, shallow ones, seem to be pushing for the sort of game they deserve, and we will all suffer the consequences.