Will We Ever Be Able To Fly Without A Mount

[Jin-]

We already fly in the story without mounts or wings. So it's possible

[GrizzlyTank]

Please, never.

Especially not with wings.

[deadman1204]

Lore wise weirdly XIV implies pretty heavily that flight is not a mechanical function but a magical one for many creatures, and that doing so safely requires understanding an area to a certain degree.

So it isn't actually that wild for the PC to just learn to fly in the same way we sorta just got the ability to breath under water.

The bigger issue is genre, which in a lot of ways trumps lore and theme. It doesn't really matter if something is hypothetically possible if it doesn't fit the genre, and in fantasy its sorta weird for your characters to fly around like superheroes unaided, compared to riding a mount or a broom or whatever.

Its the same reason that Star Wars didn't devolve into different sides using Von Neuman Probes to murder each other and convert entire star systems into mega-structure factories: sure the fact automated droid production combined with the fact that droids themselves could be technicians and producers and spaceships makes this a logical inevitability, but then you are less talking Lucas and more talking speculative hard scifi and moved into a different genre entirely.

It's fantasy, which means it can literally be whatever you want. The flying mount thing is from everyone cloning WoW. There is literally no reason the game can't do it if they want to. Asthetics are whatever the choices the devs make after all.

[Haruka_R]

Go play DCUO.

[Conando]

It's fantasy, which means it can literally be whatever you want. The flying mount thing is from everyone cloning WoW. There is literally no reason the game can't do it if they want to. Asthetics are whatever the choices the devs make after all.

WoW didn’t invent flying mounts and vehicles in Fantasy video games. Final Fantasy was doing it from the start with the airship in Final Fantasy on the NES.

[LisSquid]

WoW didn’t invent flying mounts and vehicles in Fantasy video games. Final Fantasy was doing it from the start with the airship in Final Fantasy on the NES.

In the context of mmos, I think the first player-flight mechanic was City of Heroes. At least that's what is often cited as the "day the mmo world died". Still waiting on that death certificate, though.

[Eraden]

In the context of mmos, I think the first player-flight mechanic was City of Heroes. At least that's what is often cited as the "day the mmo world died". Still waiting on that death certificate, though.

Oh god, I miss that game so much. I hear it's being run here and there on private servers still. I just don't know why that game got canned. From my understanding it was quite popular and filled a niche that had few other competitors. A newer version would probably be quite a hit.

[cactusbees]

Please, never.

Especially not with wings.

Like the ones in the Excitatron 6000? Because those are fun!

[Katt_Felista]

The only way i see them ever trying this is in a special zone type like eureka / bozja instanciated "side" story or content that does not impact the rest of eorzea.

Let's say a new special side content farming zone ala eureka/Bozja in the shattered remains of the mothercrystal forming floating cities being a special "zone" as an aether-heavenly type place, in it's own regard, and one another zone like this could be moon shattered partly by ultima thule / dynamis' will's impact / Darkness themed Zodiark zone with more of a darkness / demonic feel to it.

[INTERNETKID]

I like that idea of having accessories that act like mounts, like wings, particles effect that would imply that the character is using magic to fly around, stuff like that