How long do mounts take to add?

[Peregrine]

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.

They could have developed an entire standalone chocobo dungeon game to be played within FFXIV in the time between when they should have already had that system in place and when it will actually be a real thing.

And yet you'll likely get some pat clunky chocobo CAPTCHA grind that is obviously just a reskinned gathering mod that took 3 weeks to slap together.

[Greencactaur]

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?

Because its been only 9 months... Do you really expect a game to have mounts within 9 months?... I mean yeah of course you'd assume a company like SE would've added it at launch, but get real only 9 months obviously they still need to make the UI changes so those come first. After the UI changes are finally done we wait another 6-7 months for some bug fixes here and there. Then MAYBE we can see mounts.

[Anty]

Because its been only 9 months... Do you really expect a game to have mounts within 9 months?... I mean yeah of course you'd assume a company like SE would've added it at launch, but get real only 9 months obviously they still need to make the UI changes so those come first. After the UI changes are finally done we wait another 6-7 months for some bug fixes here and there. Then MAYBE we can see mounts.

and by the time ffxiv is enjoyable it will have to compete to GW3, Tera 2, WOW 2 lol

[LateReg]

Because its been only 9 months... Do you really expect a game to have mounts within 9 months?... I mean yeah of course you'd assume a company like SE would've added it at launch, but get real only 9 months obviously they still need to make the UI changes so those come first. After the UI changes are finally done we wait another 6-7 months for some bug fixes here and there. Then MAYBE we can see mounts.

You have insanely low standards.

superinb4: "i'm just reasonable"

[Griss]

Mounts get delayed one month every time some one posts in this thread.. D'oh

[Gypsine]

I still think they are on the way soon, but i wonder if they may have steampunk-ish ground travel or something from the Garlean empire. I think that could be very possible if not probable.

[Betelgeuzah]

5 years is bullshit.

The crystal tools wasn't even ready at the time, not to mention the huge pproblems SE had while developing it, causing XIII and versus to be delayed for the longest time.

XI's resources and manpower were cut considerably after the second half of 2007. Look there for the real dev time.

[Elexia]

5 years is bullshit.

The crystal tools wasn't even ready at the time, not to mention the huge pproblems SE had while developing it, causing XIII and versus to be delayed for the longest time.

XI's resources and manpower were cut considerably after the second half of 2007. Look there for the real dev time.

^ This. . . .

[Cutriss]

5 years is bullshit.

The crystal tools wasn't even ready at the time, not to mention the huge pproblems SE had while developing it, causing XIII and versus to be delayed for the longest time.

Yeah, uh, XIII was delayed for the 360 port, remember?

XI's resources and manpower were cut considerably after the second half of 2007. Look there for the real dev time.

^ This. . . .

No. No. Not "this" at all. XI's resources and manpower were cut down because they weren't doing anything. The game was sunsetting. It's not like XI people were suddenly pulled from the team to work on XIV, and even if that were the case, they've still had a sizeable amount of time to figure out these "concepts" they've been kicking around forever.

Let's assume that the entire game production has to wait until Crystal Tools is done. A faulty one, because if that were true, then XIII would have been delayed even further than it was. But whatev's. That means that rather than screwing around wasting money, they can get all this planning stuff done ahead of time so that they know what's going to go into the game, rather than having thoughtful discussions about it nearly a year after the first external playtesting has started.

At any rate, even if you cling to that silly theory of yours that the game was only recently in development because they had to get people off of XI, then you should be pissed off beyond belief that they're "diverting resources" to the production of WAKFU and that other MMO that they just announced.

One or the other! Can't have it both ways!

[Betelgeuzah]

No. No. Not "this" at all. XI's resources and manpower were cut down because they weren't doing anything. The game was sunsetting. It's not like XI people were suddenly pulled from the team to work on XIV, and even if that were the case, they've still had a sizeable amount of time to figure out these "concepts" they've been kicking around forever.

What does a vague term like "sunsetting" even mean in this context? What logic, from the company's standpoint, is there to cease development on a game just because it's getting old? That's not a sensible reason.

Let's assume that the entire game production has to wait until Crystal Tools is done. A faulty one, because if that were true, then XIII would have been delayed even further than it was. But whatev's. That means that rather than screwing around wasting money, they can get all this planning stuff done ahead of time so that they know what's going to go into the game, rather than having thoughtful discussions about it nearly a year after the first external playtesting has started.

Clearly their plans were shit, plus the small detail of having a completely different design team- so they had to reconsider. Had they started external playtesting much earlier, we wouldn't even be in this situation- but it's a waste to even talk about it, the past is not going to change.

At any rate, even if you cling to that silly theory of yours that the game was only recently in development because they had to get people off of XI, then you should be pissed off beyond belief that they're "diverting resources" to the production of WAKFU and that other MMO that they just announced.

This game was only recently in development because they had trouble developing the game engine (which they most certainly did). XI team switched over as soon as they could start the development.

You have said nothing to suggest otherwise.

SE bug testing, thats new, when did they start doing that?

>implying XIV wasn't one of the least buggy MMO's released in a long time.

Some of you live in some special world of your own where design decisions turn into bugs and Wada is your eternal arch-rival/Sephiroth incarnation that must be destroyed.