A mounts matter

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Except it really doesnt sum anything up. Mounts being paramount isnt something restricted to racing games. If you go into war with a chocobo or if you go into war with a tank and the behave the same.. damn that's a silly idea - and more particularly that's horrible rp, and thus rpg.

I can easily turn that around by saying that while a warrior would not mind an armored mount, a mage might be cross if the fastest mounts in the game are all armored mounts.

I personally ran into this in WoW before mount speeds were normalized. My warrior wasn't hit badly by that because I happened to choose the Alterac Ram, which was top speed and armored. My mage had the choice of going slow on a chestnut mare or swallowing RP pride and going for the armored warhorses that could go at top speed.

And no, just because there are stats doesnt mean everyone will use the same mount. There are different stats and classes for the game (pld, thf, blm, ect, ect) and not everyone uses the same class.

The jobs are not used for exactly the same thing. Mounts are mounts. Difference in concept and application.

Introduction of stats doesnt have to mean everyone chooses the same thing.

Oh please. It's inevitable. It always happens in anything that involves number crunching and stats. Hell, it even happened in Pokemon, and that's as far as you can get from wizards and dragons.

Finally I disagree making a game more rpg like and less Designer Fashion for a game titled an mmorpg is a waste of resources, though I would say its a waste of resources to design something distinctly at odds with what the game is titled.

RPG and MMORPG function under very different conventions.

On appearance, RPGs have theirs built in. Final Fantasy characters are all designed to be stylish and have good-looking gear. Their mounts and rides always look awesome.

MMORPGs suffered the conundrum of gear appearance until someone had the brilliant idea of having vanity slots as an in-game system. Mount appearance is no different, because if you picture your wizard on a saddleless black horse but have to pick the heavily armored ram or warhorse because they go at top speed and are practical to have, then having a mount is not going to be very fun to you.

There's a reason stuff like mount speed and such scaling with your character's riding skill/level is a much better idea than it scaling with the mount itself.

I really dont want to see SE lose sight of whats an RPG in order to succumb to all this vanity nonsense.

I guess you hate vanity slots too, huh?