[Question] Will we ever be able to ride Chocobos/Airships?

[Abriael]

One of the main things that are missing from the now famous charts by Yoshida-san are Chocobos and Airships.
They are a staple in the Final Fantasy mythos, and a big tease in the game, considering that there are stables and even airship stations but we can't interact with them.

My question is: is the implementation of Chocobos and Airships even on the radar of the development team? What is their priority?

Honestly traveling is one of the biggest problems of this game, there's a LOT of running to be done, especially since Anima tends to be in short supply. Adding chocobos and Airships would mitigate the problem quite a lot, so I would encourage the team to bump up their priority a little (if it's low at the moment), because I feel that we really need their implementation as soon as humanly possible.

[Vicious]

I'm sure they're planning to add mountable chocobos eventually but i would also like to know where this is on their priority list

[Draven]

Just a matter of time. Be patient please everyone

[Jakkington]

I bought this game pre-order, and personally, I'm starting to think it's been quite a damn while before they've mentioned it, myself. It really should be their top priority. Sure, all those others things they've updated since the release of the game have been extremely helpful, the game was still playable. I would gladly trade any of those new enemies, new helpful healing features, all that fancy stuff.. Just to ride a Chocobo. Once in my life. Isn't that the dream? And isn't an Airship the major step-up from the chocobo? That one thing that you had to work so hard for in FFXI.. ?
Ahh, and as a little dorkish noob back then.. Sticking around for six hours straight (Or perhaps six days) just to feed a sick chocobo just to be able to ride one. I would gladly do anything, no matter how difficult the quest, to ride a chocobo in Final Fantasy XIV.

All I'm saying is I'm not going to be patient. I know they'll come out with it 'eventually', but I'm not just going to ignore it and eventually forget about it like they seemed to. This is important, and it's the main symbolism of any Final Fantasy game. You know that. We all know that. Chocobos and Airships should have been in the game before it was released, and you know that everyone was disappointed as all hell that they weren't. This NEEDS to be top priority, and they need to at least mention it. Don't tell me my impatience is without reason.


.. Oh, and by the way, wasn't breeding and racing not released into FFXI until much later? Don't tell me that's why it's taking so long. We should at least have riding immediately.

[Abriael]

Just a matter of time. Be patient please everyone

It isn't a matter of patience. Knowing where it is between the priorities would be enough, since the last that mentioned them was Tanaka.

[Gath]

We will get them soon, and then, we will need to do a quest to ride them, and the quest isn't released yet /facepalm

[Vesper]

There was a class called "Sheperd' discovered in old beta files. I would not be surprised if this class turns out to be a Chocobo Shepard, aka a new DoL job heavily involved with the chocobos themselves. AKA you want to ride, you equip the Job item and can now ride one. But we shall see.

[Rinsui]

Almost half a year after release, and still no chocobos.
Ts,ts,ts...

[Kaboushi]

There was a class called "Sheperd' discovered in old beta files. I would not be surprised if this class turns out to be a Chocobo Shepard, aka a new DoL job heavily involved with the chocobos themselves. AKA you want to ride, you equip the Job item and can now ride one. But we shall see.

genious, seriously, i like that

[Lebannen]

I think we will have both chocobos and airships soon, seeing as both are already present in the game. I saw an airship yesterday as i was in the outskirts of Limsa Lominsa, and there is already chocobo stables.