As a Lalafell, I'd much rather ride a Maidenbug.

I'd like to saddle one up for my run from East Goblin NM camp to North.

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Seriously though - I do agree that straying too far from Chocobo will make the game feel less like a Final Fantasy, not that it wouldn't be fun or interesting or adventurous.

I'm wondering if the team has given any thought to fighting wild chocobo and/or saddling them up in the field, though.

I certainly don't mind renting them from stables, but it's not outside other Final Fantasy games to fight wild chocobo, or lure them with greens and ride them off into the sunset - or force them to mate with your other chocobos (or in an MMO, you're friends' chocobos) - like twisted, mad, genetic scientists bent on getting the perfect, Gold Chocobo so you can unleash Knights of the Round...

...but I digress. Any thoughts on this from community, reps or devs?