Don't add flying mounts

[Kerberon]

While I agree that flying mounts are bad. The reason for it has nothing to do with anything mentioned in the op. It has to do with the ability to bypass any and all monsters. Seeing people in the world.... that really isn't a negative. While you will sometimes join a party for fate farming, it's not like seeing people running thru a map to kill something really means anything. World pvp doesn't really work for this game for reasons mentioned above. The reason they made cross realm zones in WoW also has nothing to do with seeing people run thru zones. It has to do with the fact that because of declining populations some servers didn't have enough people to do group quests at level.

[Alavastre]

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I doubt they would reuse stuff from XI anymore. Yoshi didn't like the fact that this game looked just like XI and thought that was a mistake.

And what is the point of making your own airship if it doesn't move? With the customizable aspect and Yoshi's comments, it's more likely there will be flying mounts, but it will be limited to certain zones. Furthermore when I read his comments it seemed likely that he meant you would need flying mounts to defeat a flying foe, which would probably be Bahamut.

Either way, it's conjecture on my side and on your side. But I'm excited to see how it truly plays out. Either way, it will be more of a game I love.

[Vaughn]

i believe he also mentioned this when talking about future support of the PS3. He mentioned something along the lines that if he wanted to have players flying around and swooping down to attack a 200' long dragon that is something that they couldn't do on the PS3.

[yahhzoo]

I don't think we will see flying mounts anytime soon, but Airships are a strong possibility.

[xenosuke1]

jus gotta say how would flyin mounts ruin the game?, for one there is no world pvp in this game, there are no faction wars, only in the pvp grounds which are instanced. aside from that flyin mounts didnt ruin wow the community did. i can understand the whole exploration thing, if they did add flyin mounts it wouldnt really harm anything cause seriously how often u se ppl explorin the places in the game aside from the fresh new ppl tht join and your tellin me that just becuase there are flyin mounts everyone will jus up and begone like there are hordes of ppl jus standing, in all the low level zones. it wont ruin the game. ppl will be in the same places they always are. atma farming, mor dhona, limsa uldah gridania and north shroud.

[Gormogon]

If we do get flying mounts we better have battles in the sky.

[DoubleT]

I doubt they would reuse stuff from XI anymore. Yoshi didn't like the fact that this game looked just like XI and thought that was a mistake.

lol they already use alot of stuff from xi. mobs, races, even the 3 towns are kind of similar to xi's 3 original towns. an yoshi did say, word for word, that his choices for the x-pack was between Sky & Sea. What was xi's first 2 x-packs centered around? i forgot.
an what good would a flying mount do you in these zones? they are small, require less than 5 mins to reach one side to the other, an you can tele to any zone you want. When would you fly? It would be completely useless. And go back to my last post where i edited, an i gave other examples of why flying would be not practicle in these zones, because of the way they are designed. it would look like crap.

[ofTheMoores]

I come from maxing out several toons in WoW, but I don't want flying mounts in FF. For gods sake, though, give us some faster land mounts!

[KingOfAbyss]

Fictional: Complain that flying mounts would kill the game, making it an empty shell where the land will feel seamless without seeing players running around.

Reality: Sees hundreds of players running around, each doing their specific thing, not caring one bit about others, not waving or chattting, even in shout, except for the stupid raise call because that person didn't select the map's Aetheryte in case of.. ? (not including gil sellers)

To me, I've come to terms with MMOs. It's a very fake attempt to tempt people into the MASSIVE crowd, fun to interact with. <-- selling dreams

Option to get over that feeling: FC, LS (Guilds, etc) Stay in one that will make you feel there is true human beings behind these pixellized characters.

The rest is just Soloing, and forced parties so that solo player can complete content.

*OP - Flying mounts or anything won't kill a game or making it empty: It's the people behind their screens that does. (or not, wishful thinking )

If they make a flying mount (Voidal anyone?) please make it so we can fly for real.. this mount feels soooo slow.. >.<

**What makes me stick to MMOs: The skill animations (specially of Magic-Users), the Story somewhat. Questing, some grinding, Achievements (gotta catch them all! ^^ ) and - The people that you enjoy spending your dedicated time into gaming.

[Gormogon]

I come from maxing out several toons in WoW, but I don't want flying mounts in FF. For gods sake, though, give us some faster land mounts!

Doomtrain when?

Also when we getting the train cart thing that's inside U'Ghamaro Mines?