How long do mounts take to add?

[Azurus]

I fail to see an issue. Our running speed is infact a bit faster then ffxi's. And it doesn't rake long at all to walk to places. I literally walked from gridania to ul'dah and it took 1 hr. Running = 40 min. And this included stoping to get camp spots also. A chocobo even as just a mount will not be all that much faster. And your still "walking" to the locations.

And fyi and The anima has lore backing the "restrictiveness." It is said that aether waves (the style of teleporting we do) causes stress to our bodies anime is a fail safe (and better then gil considering repair costs and gear prices)

walking from gridania to Ul Dah sounds painful, please dont assume everyone is as masochistic. Mounts would make a big difference in traveling as it is roughly 60-100% faster in most games. Besides chocobos being a FF mainstay, which warrants their implementation alone, this increase in speed would make exploring this world alot more appealing to others. Right now walking the copy/paste world is not worth it, If people atleast feel they are doing it faster it comforts them atleast some what. Chocobos will just help this game psychologically more then anything, regardless of their function.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I believe they are going to implement all transportation modes at once or several at the very least so they need to make sure they have everything hammered out first.

[ApplePie]

SE has said the aetheryte system currently is enough for the transportation needs of this game. They are looking into how to add mounts effectively.

[Peregrine]

With as much text adventuring as the game has had us do to participate in for content that's not tangibly in the game, I'd have been okay with an invisible chocobo.

This is the part you pretend you're riding a chocobo, just as you pretend there are actually factions that exist in eorzea (they're not real either).

[Gracious]

We are working on our 9th month of retail and we still dont have mounts(chocobo or airships). Why? Two people can make another person from scrach before SE can add mounts to this game. Whats going on here?

I guess it takes longer then 9 months ; ;

[DeadlySwordz]

you say mounts, i hope you only mean chocobos and nothing else. i don't think any other type of ground travel would fit in FFXIV

[Elexia]

you say mounts, i hope you only mean chocobos and nothing else. i don't think any other type of ground travel would fit in FFXIV

Now someone will likely suggest air travel that isn't airships :|

[DeadlySwordz]

Now someone will likely suggest air travel that isn't airships :|

o yea i know trust me lol. they will want some type of flying mounts. if and that's a BIG IF, they added flying mounts. i would probably quit this game LOL. but it is very unlikely that would even be considered......

[Tezz_Xivectro]

Why can't people wait until after e3 & June update to start bickering about random speculations & opinions. Then we can start the jump & mount threads again. History repeats itself, because no one gives a shit about it. /sigh

[Elexia]

that they were "working on it", that in ALL that time, they didn't even bother to even design the chocobo implementation? I find that notion hard to believe.

Hell, they could have just copy pasted the same thing from FF11, they seem to be pretty adept at that, at least.

And yet they chose not to, hmm go figure, eh? I don't know why you wrote overhauls as "overhauls" because even though english is my 2nd language, even I know that overhaul means a revision, sometimes large revision of a system which they're doing now. Also no, they knew well before the game launched it wasn't in a suitable state hence why they said to hold off reviewing it while they finished ironing out the issues.

Saying that they purposefully released a poorly optimized game, especially compared to their last 2 MMOs, would be like saying the alpha version of the game was the version they planned to release but knew that people wouldn't accept a "half assed game" so they created the beta version.

Considering I've played both of their MMOs, XIV was majorly rushed in all definitions of rushed release. Since we're throwing the "their own words" around, just before open beta XIV was still "For sure in 2010, but no exact date", then all of a sudden, right during a crucial time and financial period given little coming out of SE's studios for 2010 and early 2011, XIV has a release date?

The quote you listed further proves that they didn't have "5 years" of working on XIV. You know what else proves it? 2007-2009 FFXI update cycle and update quality. WoTG took 3 years to complete because 2007-2009 pulled the team to work on getting XIV ready for testing, XIV is released, look at the updates XI started to receive. So again, if the game was released in better quality, we wouldn't have had to wait, but now that we have to wait for them to overhaul, yes overhaul there's no escaping this fact, the game you can bet it would have been implemented by now since what would they be able to focus on instead of having to retrace steps? A transportation system is in no way the same work load as recreating a foundational system such as the battle system which they have to now in order to begin doing other work because thats clearly how bad the game is in on the back end.