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.

[Ahmbor]

I don't know where you got the idea they were adding them, too!

[Musashidon]

i like flying mounts kthnxbye

[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.

[Noshpan]

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.

[Gardes]

Pfft, they cant even handle elevators in praetor. What makes you think they can handle free flying?

[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.”