How long do mounts take to add?

[Cutriss]

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.

Hardly. WOTG took 3 years because they wanted to cajole players into sticking it out when they realized that work on XIV was falling behind and they needed to concoct something to keep the income from XI going. If it was truly a matter of manpower, then they could've just completely abandoned ACP/MKD/ASA entirely and finished the expansion properly.

I wouldn't say SE is hurting for cash but if Abyssea hadn't come along to give player subs a shot in the arm, I'm guessing subs would be under 200k by now.

[Rentahamster]

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.

You're using the fact that they knowingly released a sub-par product as justification for why we don't have chocobos? lol

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

"If the game was released in better quality"...we would have had chocobos already implemented at retail launch as they should have been.


Your arguments aren't making sense anymore, and the logical gymnastics you are doing to justify the devs not having a simple mount system implemented yesterday are astonishing.

[Levian]

You still view this as retail release? I'm looking at it as an open beta that we all paid to get into. There's a lot that shoulda/coulda/woulda been done. As for the lack of progress, I'm sure it woud've been that easy if these guys were intimately familiar with the project. Let's not forget that they're working to fix someone else's cluster ****. I don't even want to imagine being in their position right now.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

I would have to agree some here, I can not wait for the Chocobo system to be added, but could we at least get basic rental rides like in FFXI. At least that could tide us over till they add in the rest of the chocobo system.

[Misha]

I would have to agree some here, I can not wait for the Chocobo system to be added, but could we at least get basic rental rides like in FFXI. At least that could tide us over till they add in the rest of the chocobo system.

Exactly... and as has been stated almost everything is already coded into the game. Mounting, dismounting and a text box to rent the choco is all that needs to be added... taking a year to come out with this is just plain sad not to mention as also been stated this shoulda been in release. Any half ass dev coulda added the code and text needed for this a LONG time ago AND take almost no time at all in the process so it didn't effect their revamp plans. Sorry but there's just NO EXCUSE for it not to be in the game at this point, even in a basic rent/travel form.

[Poipori]

Chocobo mounts should be in the game at release, period.

They had 5 years to develop the game, even when they were still creating Crystal Tools, they would have already started the planning and conceptual designs of the game, content creation like story writing etc, it's not like they can't do anything when crystal tools is still incomplete.

So yes, it was 5 years of development, but SE still manage to release a half-baked(or quarter-baked) game with barely any content, how crazy is that.

[Vesperia]

Chocobo mounts should be in the game at release, period.

They had 5 years to develop the game, even when they were still creating Crystal Tools, they would have already started the planning and conceptual designs of the game, content creation like story writing etc, it's not like they can't do anything when crystal tools is still incomplete.

So yes, it was 5 years of development, but SE still manage to release a half-baked(or quarter-baked) game with barely any content, how crazy is that.

""Give them a break, its not a priority, LOLz."

Lolz aside, it does defy belief that SE could have the audacity to release such blatantly repetitive zones without so much as a faster method to get around them.

Walking through copy-pasted terrain at a snail's pace? Pricelessly bad idea.

For everything else there's mastercard.

[Poipori]

Walking through copy-pasted terrain at a snail's pace? Pricelessly bad idea.

For everything else there's mastercard.

lol yeah! bugs and errors aside, 5 years of development led to only 5 repetitive zones, with god awful little amount of content, i mean, how much slower can they be?

Also, if the developers have played the game before release, and thought from a player's perspective, they would have immediately found out that "wow... EVERYTHING is wrong with this game, this "Final Fantasy" isn't fun at all, we need to revamp everything before releasing it".

[Burn]

Guys, guys, girls, girls, lets be civil here! Chocobo's are in the dats, its just locked with the rest of the game!

See how that works? There is a whole un-released game just chilling in the dats!

[Velhart]

To the person who said something about Chocobo Breeding, there is no confirmation of this. However, the producers did say the chocobos will be implemented in more than just a mount, so it sounds like it could be true, but we do not have any direct message saying it is so.