Are there plans to add additional companions?

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The two things that have been discussed by Yoshida in the past are the following:

- Chocobo being the primary mount will be the only mount with any sort functionality/interactivity that will be more than just a mount. Ie. being able to level, summon, battle, etc..
- There was a brief mention where Yoshida was talking about possibly customizing the appearance only of Magitek armour, no weapons (as player mounts can't attack/shoot/spray/omglazers/whatever). There might be special missions where you can use a Magitek mount but I think we've already seen those, ie story line mission. Or the beastmen daily mounts.

I apologize for not having the source at the time of my posting this. It was a while back I'll see if I can find them and post links.

Edit:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post236425

Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
It would be very difficult to feature mounted battles on every field. Therefore, instead of creating mediocre content for every area, we would like to make these battles special. This will be far ahead in the future, but if we were to implement mounted battles, we would like to make this specialized content. This way we can focus our resources to create the most interesting and optimized content.

The road is very long, so we would greatly appreciate your patience and support. m(._.)m

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ry-(04-17-2013)

Q: Can we customize our magitek armor (such as changing parts or the color scheme)?

A: I think we were asked this before, but yes customization will be possible. You'll see something eventually as the character and modeling teams are pumping out lots of ideas. I think our players are looking forward to the chocobo and magitek armor more than any other mounts, so in the future we will be discussing where these mounts will play an active role in the game. Actually, we're already working on something with the chocobos, but want to make sure it's engaging, and really shows off what makes this game a FINAL FANTASY title.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/09...expanding-fun/

Yoshida was next asked about additional game features and actions and how they will be incorporated into the game's controller scheme. His response touched on the cross hotbar and the fact that further functionality can be mapped to it with relative ease. There's room to grow in terms of things like flying mounts because instead of simply pressing a button and jumping, you could press and hold the button to fly.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post506061

Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
Howdy all! Sorry to necro-bump this thread from November, but I thought it would be a nice place to drop some hot information regarding magitek armor!

The development team is planning to make it possible to obtain magitek armor via a challenging quest related to the Garleans. From what I hear, it will not be something that is easy to obtain!

For those of you interested in customizing your magitek armor, you will be happy to know that the development team is looking into this, but they are heading in the direction where it will not affect stats.

This is pretty exciting if you ask me and I hope you are looking forward to it!

Snurble, out!