Point is we're getting them soon. We ALL know this game was atrocious at release so bickering about it now is pointless.

Yes, we're getting rental chocobos. It's a viable gilsink. We'll most likely eventually get our own chocobo that we can raise since a recent dev post informed us of such a system coming. We'll be getting more stuff for chocobos but we'll have to wait a bit. For now, I'm just pumped for the update next thursday.