Chocobo Companion Issues

[Fyrebrand]

So, this may be a newbie discovery, today I learned that:

1) You can't queue in Duty Finder while a chocobo companion is out.

2) You can't summon any other mount while chocobo companion is out.


Are you kidding me!? What is the point of these restrictions? Honestly, the programmers at Square Enix could not figure out a way to make this feature a little more user-friendly?

It's like the game considers my chocobo a member of my party, but won't let chocobos into instanced content, so the "solution" is to block Duty Finder. Really?? You couldn't figure out a way to flag chocobos as not "real" party members, and just dismiss them when I enter the duty?

So, if my chocobo is a member of the party, I should be able to cast Protect on it, right? Oh, that's right, I can't -- because the game knows it's not a real player, after all.


The only reason I can think of for why chocobos can't be out while using another mount, is that perhaps they thought it would create too many character models at once. But if that were really the case, they could have made the chocobo "companion" version disappear while mounted on something else -- you know, just like they do while you're mounted on it.


It just seems like chocobo companions were either implemented in a totally incompetent fashion, or were purposely designed as a time-wasting inconvenience for players. Am I missing something? Is there a practical reason things had to be set up this way, or did the programmers genuinely not think ahead or realize what they were doing? To me, these mechanics are shoddy and unacceptable. This could have been a great feature, but because of how they implemented it I have barely any desire to summon a chocobo companion at all.