How long do mounts take to add?

[TonyMontana]

Maybe not a troll but there doesn't seem to be anything in your original post conducive to a thoughtful discussion about what in this game is causing you grief.

The thing that is causing me grief is I have been playing ffxiv beta/retail for roughly 1 year and other than a very restrictive teleportation system I have to walk everywhere. I dont like this. I am simply stating that I find it crazy that 2 humans can make another living breathing human child in less time than it has taken SE to get us mounts, even some placeholder/barebones mount.

[TonyMontana]

I'm betting it's content saved for PS3 release.

Wouldnt that just be the most sad thing ever?

[yukikaze_yanagi]

I bet nobody of you read producer's letters. It's stated in the last letter the mount system will come this summer.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...805-20-2011%29
look at the very end of chart.

(Remember, these are our plans until summer 2011!)

and it's been already clarified "until summer 2011" means from june to august/september (dev post)

Your question is been fullfilled ?

[TonyMontana]

I bet nobody of you read producer's letters. It's stated in the last letter the mount system will come this summer.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...805-20-2011%29
look at the very end of chart.

and it's been already clarified "until summer 2011" means from june to august/september (dev post)

Your question is been fullfilled ?

So some time between the first of june and the end of september is when we will get mounts? So we could hit the 1 year mark before mounts are in the game?

[Sephr]

Because they are not just "adding" mounts as something you pick up and ride like WoW. They are going to have a full fledge raising system ready from the start when chocobos go live and that takes a lot of finalization and programing and bugtesting.

You seem to have a great time making things up and wording them as if they're fact, please don't because it'll just cause more bitching when the content we get isn't as magnificent as you seem to think it will be.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

So some time between the first of june and the end of september is when we will get mounts? So we could hit the 1 year mark before mounts are in the game?

That seems the plan.
I guess mounts have something bigger behind, otherwise right now we would have it

[Wynn]

The thing that is causing me grief is I have been playing ffxiv beta/retail for roughly 1 year and other than a very restrictive teleportation system I have to walk everywhere. I dont like this. I am simply stating that I find it crazy that 2 humans can make another living breathing human child in less time than it has taken SE to get us mounts, even some placeholder/barebones mount.

While I agree I want chocobos, I fail to see how this is in anyway a fair analogy or comparison to make. All said people have to do is bump naughty bits and the woman's body does the rest. The only way this would be fair is if someone at SE just had to go to a terminal and type in "make chocobos" and the computer does the rest.

[Peregrine]

Because they are not just "adding" mounts as something you pick up and ride like WoW. They are going to have a full fledge raising system ready from the start when chocobos go live and that takes a lot of finalization and programing and bugtesting.

Why do you all perpetually buy their bait and switch?
They don't have anything planned for chocobos, because you still believe anything they say to you to justify not having them.

They have nothing planned. You all *actually* think they've been working on the battle system for 6 months, when in reality they started 4 weeks ago. Chocobos are no closer to being in the game than they were a year ago. When they finally do make it into the game, you'll forget your little statement that you made here about how complex the chocobo system is going to be, because YAY CHOCOBOS.

[viion]

Sad but true, I dont see Chocobos being added until 2012. Someone can quote me on that to either show I was right or that im full of shit

[Azurus]

Why do you all perpetually buy their bait and switch?
They don't have anything planned for chocobos, because you still believe anything they say to you to justify not having them.

They have nothing planned. You all *actually* think they've been working on the battle system for 6 months, when in reality they started 4 weeks ago. Chocobos are no closer to being in the game than they were a year ago. When they finally do make it into the game, you'll forget your little statement that you made here about how complex the chocobo system is going to be, because YAY CHOCOBOS.

Ya i agree with this, Ive been int he game since beta and on these forums since they opened (ZAMs longer) and i not once have heard them say they are doing anything complex with mounts. It has all just been player speculation, and i think a basic mount function as a placeholder, as the OP requests is not that hard to put in game to hold us over for whatever magic plan they have for the future. Also, regardless of these higher priorty things that are in the works right now, chocobos should have been around a while ago. XI had the same problem and its a shame after almost a decade they are still no more efficient at making MMOs. Every other company now a days releases a game and adds to it over time. SE releases an empty world and adds a game over time. This is an archaic practice and should not have been repeated.