The word "Flying" in 1st expansion

[Bluevann]

They are likely referring to the airships we'll be able to make, though Yoshi-P once also said that he was considering adding -actual- flying mounts when there the opportunity would present itself (he mentioned "such as moving from a continent to another" if I remember correctly).

[Miya_Carbuncle]

WoW tried that in cata. Let's just say it wasn't really successful

Hmm? I thought it was pretty cool, and I don't remember anyone really hating it.

Though it was really just one unique zone and that was it. Flying completely changed transportation in the game.

But anyways, I'm not sure if I'd like flying or not. In WoW, it's really hard to enjoy the scenery when you're just flying from point A to point B. It feels more immersive when you're on the ground in my opinion.

[EdwinLi]

I remember reading somewhere from developers that Free Company houses could build workshops for creating airships.

I may be going crazy though, can anyone confirm this?

It was back in a patch note when Yoshi-P discussed about Housing Functions. (He also mentioned Chocobo Raising in it as well)

Housing will serve as a location to create Air-ships as he stated. However, SE may also release a Default location outside of Housing to craft our Air-ships as well and the Garlond Ironworks HQ would be a interesting place for players who do not own a House.

However, right now the little info we have is that Housing can be a location to create Air-ships and that Crafting other type of Air-ships will simply for Vanity use while the Size of the Air-ship (FC size Air-ships) will hold more important role for some kind of unknown content.

On another note:

Can't people think of anything else other than Flying Mounts? FF14ARR has plenty of other things involving the word Flying right now that we can't explore yet.

Ah well, as of now the word Flying could be just the Theme of 1st expansion being that the game may focus on things involving Air-Ships which is promised by Yoshi-P and to serve for some important unknown function.

Y'know, this actually makes an incredible amount of sense all things considered. Why would we finally be able to get our own Airships? The Grand Companies lack an airship fleet of their own, and so they commission the various free companies and independent adventurers to build and man Airships to attack the Garlean airfleet. In short? We'll all be Sky Pirates, furnished with our own Letters of Marque. Now I'm REALLY looking forward to when we get to build our own airships~.

Now SE just needs to release Musketeer and we will have some Balthier clones in this game to go with Air-ships.

[Gormogon]

really lame.. mmos ALWAYS do flying crap. should have done underwater, u hardly ever see that in mmos.

That's because of the whole "fad" that goes with it. Not that it's a bad thing but it's hard to keep people interested in water stuff.

If we had submarines and content equivalent that keeps it interesting then maybe but it's the reason why it gets out done by sky content. It's just easier to access and across existing and progressive content and Airships and Sky continents will be more enjoyable and have better use than submarines, boats, ships, and other underwater related content.

I'd look forward to underwater but I ain't holding my breath on expecting the FFXIV making the most out of it for me to enjoy from an expansion. I'd place my hopes on dungeons and raid content that has underwater themes.

[elkhorn]

Sky dungeon gimme my sky and sea gods back