Comparing The Chocobo Quests in 11 and 14

[darkstarpoet1]

I don't remember anyone asking for a handout. We where just asking for the implementation and I think many of us assumed there would be a challenging chocobo based quest involved.

you know what happens when you assume anything. you make things out of you and me. i, for one, am not suprised at all. i did not expect some multi hour quest to get an alternate way to travel, but would not have been upset if it was.

[Felis]

Final Fantasy 11:

Minimum Rank - 20

Talk to NPC Brutus and trade a Gausebit Grass to the chocobo. The chocobo will not accept the grass at this time. Come back on another game day and try to feed it again. The chocobo will still not accept the grass. Come back on the third day and the chocobo will now accept the grass. You must now feed the chocobo 3 more times in 3 different game days to complete the quest and gain ability to ride the chocobo.
Final Fantasy 14

Minimum Rank - 10

Join a Grand Company in one of the three cities. You must obtain 3,000 credits to obtain the ability to ride a chocobo. To obtain 3,000 credits you must do the initial quests and the dungeons to earn the necessary credits. Additionally you must also advance past recruit stage in one of the companies in order to qualify for the chocobo.

You need to be rank 22 to join a company.
And now?

[Jinrya-Geki]

I am glad it's not a stupid 6 hour quest of time wasting. 5 hours if you did it right.

I have 5k seals :3 I wonder how hard it will be to become a recruit though. Atleast they made getting you're own personal chocobo hard to get, if you are a new player. Glad I have all the crap done to get one.

Sir Digsby Chicken Caesar is waiting for me!

[Anonymoose]

I don't remember anyone asking for a handout. We where just asking for the implementation and I think many of us assumed there would be a challenging chocobo based quest involved.

I can understand where that issue would arise, but we say that about everything that comes out.

We've done what there is to do, so every time there's new content we hope it'll take a while - but the unfortunate side of game development is that it takes longer to program a game than it does to play it. Even console titles take years to build and a week, TOPS, to beat.

I just don't think the topic of riding a bird deserves to be bigged up as "too easy" and another "indication that we're headed in the wrong direction" if they're not overly hard to get. I can't claim to speak for the dev team, but if I was on it, this would look childish and ungrateful. It's not even content, it's a mechanism for transporting yourself to the [eventual] content.

If I may ask, what kind of quest were you all hoping for? If this was FFXI's team in charge, we'd probably end up with a two hour walk, 10 cutscenes that deliver no meaningful dialogue, and after all of that you'd to go to the other side of the world relative to the quest start location and have a Grade 5 botanist harvest the greens you need to feed to the chocobo once a day for a week - and those greens would be sold out of those BTN's bazaars for a mil each for a month before all the "elities" got theirs first and felt superior for it.

You'd see forum topics like "SERVER FIRST CHOCOBO (PICS!)" and stupid bullsh!t like that.

I prefer this - and not just because it SEEMS easier on account of us having accidentally already met the requirements for it while playing July's patch with our already leveled-up jobs.

[Colino]

I love how OP conveniently forgot that:

You need to be rank 22 to enter a company, not 10.

You need to be a higher rank than recruit (what that entails, we do not know, but hints during the current event are that you will need seals to rank up in the company).

So, unless you're level 45 plus and have already done the darkhold (in which case you freaking deserve a chocobo already) you will not have enough seals from the get go. You STILL might not have enough even if you have done the Darkhold because we don't know how many seals are required to go past the "recruit" rank.

Seriously, just because it was "harder" and more involved in FFXI doesn't mean this game has to be exactly the same. I honestly couldn't care less how hard or amazing it was in FFXI, I play FFXIV.

[goonMagi]

Your post is quite misleading.

First off, you have to join a grand company. That right there is minimum rank of 22.

So right off the bat you are giving out false information. Secondly the price of buying one is 3000 company seals, which may or may not increase. On top of this, you have to be "above the rank of recruit" in order to be eligible for buying a chocobo. This could mean that we need rank 5, or rank 2, or anything about 1 (where 1 is recruit).

This probably amounts to 3000 + (cost of getting whatever rank) in company seals.

[Anonymoose]

I think they're talking about the requirements to RENT a chocobo, which are more lenient than FFXI was. Then again, FFXI didn't make you walk to Bluefog to deliver crafting leves everyday either, so f**k their comparison.

[Abauge_Goga]

I think they're talking about the requirements to RENT a chocobo, which are more lenient than FFXI was. Then again, FFXI didn't make you walk to Bluefog to deliver crafting leves everyday either, so f**k their comparison.

Exactly. Horizon - Bluefog - Broken Water - Drybone - 4 leves hand in on a daily basis.

[Carmillia]

Exactly.

FFXI:
Get to rank 20 and do the chocobo feeding quest.

FFXIV:
Get to rank 10:

Conclusion: FFXIV is faster.

Corrected for you Sir! They are both easy, one involves giving one item every hour for 5 hours (nothing difficult here) and the other one involves not wasting time doing such a useless quest (or maybe there will be a quest to do, they just talked about the rank requirement if i'm correct) but nothing difficult here either.

[Anonymoose]

... faster.

Actually, that's a damn good point, as well. There really isn't a difference in difficulty, one just doesn't involve standing around like a douche while your bird digests the grass and asks for more...

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