Do we really need Flying Mount in this game?

[Welsper59]

I know, but in expansion they emphasize the word "Massive New Area" It's not the same thing we are getting right now. Seam like we are getting something similar to 1.0 and FFXI where the world is massive and take awhile to travel again.

Unless they introduce group areas for the open world, as in areas that have mobs that can EASILY kill a solo player (as in if you get hit with Heavy running by them, you're going to die), then flying mounts changes nothing. Every one of us does not care much about aggroing something... in fact, it's just an annoyance more than anything else.



By the way things seem so far, it seems like the impression of it is that it is necessary to fly to gain the feel of the area. The cracked floating terrains kind of support that idea. This is something that WoW did not capitalize on. They focused on the leveled ground of the environment, rather than utilizing what options flight can provide. Heck, Blizzard completely shelved several concepts of flight, including one that was advertized on the box itself of Burning Crusade (aerial combat).

I'm hoping SE makes the emphasis of flight content to be about the capability to fly. I wouldn't worry much about it ruining old content neither, as I'm sure there's going to be restrictions on use of flight to being expansion areas only.

The casual hoard that came to FFXIV will want airships, less time to get the best gear, and anything that may take a little bit longer will be whined about until the devs cave in. I played 1.0 because it fascinated me. I, like the OP, enjoyed the danger of traveling and the massive maps, no matter how tedious and copy and paste they were, and the time I invested in the game reaped a satisfaction that 2.0 has yet to give me. We ran speed runs to try and improve our skill and pop and extra chest. It is now just to save time.
I am going to predict that the casuals will continue to run over us legacy players and drive out hardcore gamers until this game because nothing more than an easy to beat free to play. Devs will not hear cries like mine, instead, they focus at all the ruckus these casual are causing. I think we need to have the game hit a dead point to where only the hardcore will stay and stick it out to drive these casual players out.

Uhh... you're quite the boring person to be around if you really think airships aren't something ANYONE in general would want. Being from 1.0, which btw I am... along with 7yrs of FFXI since NA launch, means nothing as to what would or would not be enjoyable to the player base. I can tell you that your mindset of thinking the idea of an airship being bad is not shared by the majority. In fact, those of us that did play 1.0 were absolutely thrilled by the idea that we would, one day, have airships.