Company Seals for your own chocobo THATS IT?!

[Ava]

I thought same thing once.... But then I realized all the additions aren't for the current high rank people, and aren't assumed that everyone has 7500 seals already.

Well, I thought that too until I thought about it again. Rental chocobos can be looked at as the low level solution, while the personal chocobo is what they would look forward to when they get a little higher level. More incentive to join a company asap.

[Overkill9000]

it's just a mode of transportation.... and basic.... why would we need to spend oh so many seals. let high seal costs go to chocobo gear and such, not just the simple privilege of riding one

[Gennosuke]

I'm fine with it costing company seals, but maybe to appeal to the masochists that probably shouldn't even be playing MMORPGs, they could maybe increase the cost to 9000, or 10,000.

lol.. masochist. No one is arguing that we'd like it to be painful.. but rather meaninful and require some effort and if you ask me, it's the other way around, the one's who are against any real effort or story or lore to gain something of great benefit in the game probably shouldn't even be playing MMORPGs.

[Griss]

Something some are also not considering is the possibility of having to pay a undetermined amount of seals to no longer be a provisional recruit. (it was the vibe i got from the seal explanation from the immortal flame at least)

I know that unless I go with another company I am going to have to do a bit of foot work to earn enough seals to get my personal bird from the Maelstrom. And im cool with that, Hell no one put a musket to my head and made me buy my lominsan bujh or doublet.

[Davorok]

You might just need 10,000 seals to "graduate" from Recruit to Full Member. We don't know yet so please stop with the rage posts.

Also, you all need to look at all of this from a new player's viewpoint. Just because some of you already have 5000 seals from doing DH several times, does not mean that it is easy for a new player to get a Chocobo.

We are all playing "at your own risk" of being over-leveld for new content. That is our/your choice...not SE's problem. All new content is NOT going to be for R50's. Please understand that and enjoy what content you get or stop playing for awhile.

Many more changes are coming as well as new content that can be enjoyed by all levels.That is the whole point of an MMORPG....Level Specific Content to enjoy as you level. If some peeps want to grind to R50, then go back and do the content, that is a personal choice.

[AdvancedWind]

people just want everything the way it was in FF11, no sense in arguing.

This.

Also, you all are 'forgetting' to consider a few things

1 - You require 3.000 seals PLUS whatever the cost is to rank up. Even if that still sounds low, take in mind that, currently , you would only get 3.000 seals by completing the regular quests AND the into the dark quest or Imperial Devices quests, which are quite hard for appropiate levelled members (hurr, dzemael is easy - of course, we all know everyone killed the ogre on the first tries without reading strategies, riiiiiiight?). Of course they're gonna add more regular quests, but they still can be challenging to near-chocobo-level players.

2 - Seals aren't only used for chocobos. 3.000 seals you use on a chocobo are 3.000 seals not being spent on unique itens and other privileges, so you are choosing to acquire the chocobo license instead of a good armor or a quest or whatever.

3 - We do not know how many seals we will get from caravan security, so we cannot yet assume that it will be easy to just spam seals and acquire chocobos.

4 - We do not know about future chocobo related development and possible costs. Unlocking the chocobo may as well be just the first step in a greater scheme. Of course, even step one of who knows how many MUST be a needlesly long and punishing road just for the sake of being a 'hard milestone'.


Come on, I like challenging content as well, but some people think we need to spend hours and defeat several HNMs to unlock ***** Cure II or the game is "ez mode".

[AdvancedWind]

I understand this but, the idea of simply trading in seals for a chocobo seems terribly out of place when the NPCs from the game have told us there was a shortage of birds. Suddenly there's enough for every single player in the game?
This is a perfect chance for them to tell us why this happened and how it was fixed.

Chocobos were sick, as far as I can remember from what the NPCs tells us. It has been that way for one (real life) year.

Well, guess what? The chocobos are now healthy again!

There's your explaination, give or take a few more ellaborate words and maybe a quest or two..

[Rorix]

You might just need 10,000 seals to "graduate" from Recruit to Full Member. We don't know yet so please stop with the rage posts.

Also, you all need to look at all of this from a new player's viewpoint. Just because some of you already have 5000 seals from doing DH several times, does not mean that it is easy for a new player to get a Chocobo.

We are all playing "at your own risk" of being over-leveld for new content. That is our/your choice...not SE's problem. All new content is NOT going to be for R50's. Please understand that and enjoy what content you get or stop playing for awhile.

Many more changes are coming as well as new content that can be enjoyed by all levels.That is the whole point of an MMORPG....Level Specific Content to enjoy as you level. If some peeps want to grind to R50, then go back and do the content, that is a personal choice.

^This, I'm still kinda new to the game and I don't even know how to get company seals yet, I have little time to play most of the time, so I can't afford to look every guide and read every quest that is presented to me, so I still don't know a lot of the features and lore this game has, sure, it might be silly for people that are already high level and have loads of seals.

It's cool that some content it's only available to those who work hard for it and earn it but I don't think that having your own Chocobo should only be for "Elite and high lvl players"

[Akira_Tenshi]

Remember that they do have more content planned for Chocobos so perhaps that will involve things like quests.

[AdvancedWind]

I do want it like a FF though,

oh..and just a last thing

How to get Chocobos in the Final Fantasy Series.

FFII, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X, XII, XIII - Reach a chocobo forest (or other game equivalent like rent in XII) for a 'rental' chocobo, no 'personal' chocobo, unless you count Boko. Yep, sure took lots of work and had plenty of "rpg elements" for the mount.

FFVII - 'rental chocobo' - Reach chocobo footprints and equip the Chocobo Lure materia.
'personal chocobo' - Get far enough on the storyline.

FFIX - reach the chocobo forest. Talk to the moogle. You now have a 'personal' chocobo. Weee.