Don't add flying mounts

[swordrain]

Square Enix, you have the advantage of learning from the mistakes of the past with this game. One of the biggest mistakes in the history of WoW was adding flying mounts.

It completely neuters player interaction in the game world, one of the prime reasons I left Azeroth was because I was the only other adventurer there, unless someone else wanted my mining node.

It's become a really big problem for the game, revealing itself to cost a lot of time and resources to REMOVE from the quality of the game as a whole, and caused the developers to completely ignore any kind of development of the game world as a result, resulting in 10 year old problems that still plague its design, no one caring because world exploration is now a "single player" experience.

[swordrain]

This is an extremely bad idea, and FFXIV doesn't have to suffer from the backlash of removing flying mounts if it simply never has them to begin with. Airships are a great idea, but don't make them function as simple flying mounts, make them like small mobile guild HQ's that can go from area to area for no gil cost, but take a certain amount of time to get there, let us look down at Eorzea from afar (way, way afar, high in the sky) but please, please, PLEASE don't make this monumental mistake. Flying mounts undermine some of the basic core design elements of MMORPGs, and shouldn't be added to this game.

[uryell]

i don't think they will add flying mounts because the zones we are currently playing in are small, and there are loads of Teleportation.
We'll have an airship , however not to travel all around Eorzea but to have access to specific zones.

[Garlyle]

I don't know where you got the idea they were adding them.

Also I'm pretty sure the zones are actually not designed in such a way that they would be flyable.

[swordrain]

I don't know where you got the idea they were adding them.

Also I'm pretty sure the zones are actually not designed in such a way that they would be flyable.

I read something on Siliconera about SE adding flying, and it didn't seem like they said airship, they just said flying. Biting my nails when I read it, I really hope they aren't considering it.

[Ahmbor]

I read something on Siliconera about SE adding flying, and it didn't seem like they said airship, they just said flying. Biting my nails when I read it, I really hope they aren't considering it.

“I spoke a bit before about the expansion, and I said we were deciding on whether we should swim or fly. Well, we decided to go with flying so players can expect to look to the skies in the coming expansion.”

[swordrain]

Flying mounts didn't ruin WoW. Flying mounts didn't ruin world pvp. People not caring about world pvp ruined it.

On the other hand, currently, Eorzea doesn't need flying mounts.

I didn't say anything about it ruining, but it can't be denied it had a very negative effect on the "world" of warcraft, since the world is incredibly empty, running into other players became such an event, that they started to cross realm servers to try and get players to encounter each other. Then it was realized that the game developers had spent so much time with players apart, the game's PvE player interaction is outdated by years, and needs a lot of work, which they are selling as expansion content. It's had a massive negative impact on the game, I don't need to argue it, go argue it on the WoW forums if you want a 10 page dissertation on the bad it's done to the game.

[swordrain]

“I spoke a bit before about the expansion, and I said we were deciding on whether we should swim or fly. Well, we decided to go with flying so players can expect to look to the skies in the coming expansion.”

Thank you, I was looking for the exact quote, but I couldn't find it in time.

[Garlyle]

Thank you, I was looking for the exact quote, but I couldn't find it in time.

It means nothing about flying mounts; but you could very well expect things like travel to distant lands, flying island areas, etc.

Either way, again, I am pretty sure the design of the current areas is such that flying mounts literally wouldn't work in them, given the number of invisible walls and such present.

[MattReaver]

No way can I see them adding flying mounts - at least not for travel within a zone.

With that said though I would love to see zones grow in size or handle transitions between zones without a loading screen. I feel like its the PS3 that made them take that path here (and in other game mechanics) so we'll be on a crutch unfortunately.

Its ok. No one is supposed to pass WoW in this area and I'll keep playing FF but it sure would be welcomed to remove zoning with future content.

Definitely looking forward to that DX11 client on the PC in the future.