Unable to ride chocobos in town makes me facepalm.

[Eekiki]

skateboards in town!! with mini games ...like kingdom hearts lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVq1kh7xG4

I am all for this. I just don't wanna see huge mounts clogging the streets and doorways.

[PikachuLink]

I don't know man, as far as I can see the only positive thing about chocobos in town is to reach certain area of the town faster. I don't see any form of content being implemented with chocobos inside towns, etc. However, the negatives are far more and shows in every game that has implemented mounts within towns.

Even if you can target closest npc with F12 (thats the actual key, unless you remapped to F8 =p) the clutter this would cause on places people gather around would not be a very cool sight.

while i agree with not being able to see content from having a chocobo in town i do see benefits of travel a more FF feel in town imagine in the future walking through ishgard and having colored chocobos wearing armor while players walk slowly on or beside them showing off their sexy bird steed. or even cooler, your summon on left and your chocobo on right...haha long shot i know but yeah i dont see to much harm from being able to mount in town. just faster travel hangin out at LS spots lookin cool and atleast you could listen to chocobo music instead of the city music lol. people will argue server problems....but arnt they supposed to be fixing servers before ps3 release? i just dont see to much of an issue coming from allowing this i think people are over exagerating the problems they have...

[Dargoth_Draconia]

most mmos do not take as much of a realistic approach as FF. WOW graphics are cartoons for crying out loud.

Age of Conan? You can ride mounts in that game and it looks a lot more realistic than FFXIV. Also I believe EQ2 and there are several other games where you can ride mounts in towns. It is very realistc considering back in the day people rode horses and had horse carriages that rode into towns. I never said WoW, even though you made a point that is the most well known game that does allow this. By the way the graphics have nothing to do with riding mounts in a town and doesn't belong in this thread in the least. I truly wonder if anything goes through your head before you choose to speak.

Also I do actually agree with the post from the stand point it wouldn't work well with the current layout in FFXIV major cities. I wish they would open Uldah and Gridania more like LL and be more expansive and not so clogged up. By doing that and adding boundaries and only allowing you to ride your chocobos on the main streets in the towns would be really neat. It would make the cities feel more grand because most of the cities currently in FFXIV lack the Final Fantasy feel for me.

[Jynx]

I don't care if they allow Chocobos in cities or not, but they need some kind of city shortcuts.

Maybe you need one of these.

[Rjain]

http://www.wittistribune.com/wp-cont...er-dalaran.png

If I see this kind of shit happen in 14 I am going to somehow take control of the game and smash your characters' faces in with chocobos until you are never able to play with them again.

And that screenshot is rather tame compared to what one would typically see in a street in WoW. There are points where you cannot see an inch of the damn ground because of all the stupid mounts. I do not want to see your damn chocobo in town.

[Teknoman]

Well if it is allowed one day, certain areas shouldnt be accessible. Like riding a Chocobo into a building or onto an elevator.

[Mihana]

I can tell you what it will likely be set as... You pay the fee and it'll show a short cut scene of you mounting the rental chocobo, running down a path on said chocobo and then fade to a "Now Loading" screen briefly. When it loads you'll be able to control again and on your chocobo. SE did this in FFXI so no doubt we'll see something similar. Being able to ride a Chocobo from the rental location to outside, or around the town a little would be an interesting concept, but not one we need. Keep it as it is.

[Sagagemini]

I hear a lot of complaints about Rift, but i played it for 4 months and not even once i saw people jumping like tards ou using their mounts to make the game less enjoyable.
It's all about the community.

But yea, WoW is one huge chunck of ****

[Chain]

I hate this phrase.
So much.

Hi I'm waving at you from outside the bubble of denial you're living in.^^

[Mushy]

You can do most any magic intown, which you could not do in FFXI(from the time period I played atleast.) But I do think they should keep chocobos out of town or there will be no reason to ever walk again? People will also just idle there on their chocobo. It would look rather ugly I think. But like I said you can do other magic in town, and once we have summons if we can have our summon in town +1 to that!