Chocobo during Queue - "Difficult"

[Naus]

I think some of it comes from being somewhat of a party member. The reason, I think, is that you can only have one companion. Would the SMN choose to have the chocobo out if it took the companion slot? I don't think so. So right there that would be a problem to moving them to complete companion.
Another problem of turning them into a compaion would make them, technically, usable in a dungeon. Yes there is a work around of saying that an entity with a data value of what ever the chocobo's data value is, is not allowed to appear in the dungeon.

Now you are saying, "Couldn't they do that with the current system?" It would probably require a HUGE rework of the instance infrastructure. When you zone into a dungeon you are technically in a different party than the one in the world, due to the world and the dungeons being on different servers. When you enter a dungeon you leave the world, now if you where to do that with a chocobo that would force it to despawn since you are not there for it to follow. Now when you zone back into the world it puts you back in your original party, but with the chocobo despawn it has left the party since it does not exist in the world nor does it have a persistent presence in the world.


Well that is pretty much all speculation on my part based on what I've felt of the game and somewhat complete knowledge on coding practices. I would like to end of saying I can be wrong, I probably am wrong since I have not seen the code, nor do I know their codding practices. But this is what I think is the case.