I have no love for exaggerated, large weapons with lots of colours and would never be caught using one but it doesn't bother me too much to see others with it and if it makes them happy then all is well with me. What distracts me more are the people running around cities, the world and dungeons in swimwear or bunny outfits.


Other than that... I really, really wish they just stuck to their guns and didn't allow every single mount to fly (and swim). I find it obnoxious, an eyesore and a bit lazy on the player's part - but that's just my frustration talking since I doubt said people even care about those details in the first place. I'd much rather they'd have divided the various mounts into the categories defined in their tooltip and you could select you preferred mount for land travel, air travel and sea travel. So for the sake of making it easier, if you're running along the ground on your chocobo and decide you hop into the water, it ""transforms"" into a Syldra or whatever it is you chose without you having to dismount first and then you don't have actual bird mounts flying through the water.