Comparing The Chocobo Quests in 11 and 14

[Anonymoose]

Conclusion: FFXIV is easier.

Because after literally after a year of people bitching about how ridiculous it is that we need transportation, how long it takes to get everywhere, and how stupid it is that there are no chocobos - they wanted them to be easily accessible. SURPRISE!

Why is this a shock to everyone? If complaints about something are universal, they get "Fixed." You don't get to choose what fixed means, and I think that's something the playerbase needs to understand. When you ask for CHANGE, you don't automatically get your best case scenario - when you ask for CHANGE you're admitting that you'd rather take the risk of getting something you don't want in exchange for not having to adapt to something you've already decided you don't like.

Yoshida-san's team is giving people what they asked for.

I'm sure breeding will be intricate and difficult if/when it ever comes around. You wandered around the desert for hours for a YEAR. You've EARNED your HANDOUT.

[Gramul]

Because after literally after a year of people bitching about how ridiculous it is that we need transportation, how long it takes to get everywhere, and how stupid it is that there are no chocobos - they wanted them to be easily accessible. SURPRISE!

Why is this a shock to everyone? If complaints about something are universal, they get "Fixed." You don't get to choose what fixed means, and I think that's something the playerbase needs to understand. When you ask for CHANGE, you don't automatically get your best case scenario - when you ask for CHANGE you're admitting that you'd rather take the risk of getting something you don't want in exchange for not having to adapt to something you've already decided you don't like.

Yoshida-san's team is giving people what they asked for.

I'm sure breeding will be intricate and difficult if/when it ever comes around. You wandered around the desert for hours for a YEAR. You've EARNED your HANDOUT.

I don't remember anyone asking for a handout. We where just asking for the implementation and I think many of us assumed there would be a challenging chocobo based quest involved.

[darkstarpoet1]

I don't remember anyone asking for a handout. We where just asking for the implementation and I think many of us assumed there would be a challenging chocobo based quest involved.

you know what happens when you assume anything. you make things out of you and me. i, for one, am not suprised at all. i did not expect some multi hour quest to get an alternate way to travel, but would not have been upset if it was.

[Anonymoose]

I don't remember anyone asking for a handout. We where just asking for the implementation and I think many of us assumed there would be a challenging chocobo based quest involved.

I can understand where that issue would arise, but we say that about everything that comes out.

We've done what there is to do, so every time there's new content we hope it'll take a while - but the unfortunate side of game development is that it takes longer to program a game than it does to play it. Even console titles take years to build and a week, TOPS, to beat.

I just don't think the topic of riding a bird deserves to be bigged up as "too easy" and another "indication that we're headed in the wrong direction" if they're not overly hard to get. I can't claim to speak for the dev team, but if I was on it, this would look childish and ungrateful. It's not even content, it's a mechanism for transporting yourself to the [eventual] content.

If I may ask, what kind of quest were you all hoping for? If this was FFXI's team in charge, we'd probably end up with a two hour walk, 10 cutscenes that deliver no meaningful dialogue, and after all of that you'd to go to the other side of the world relative to the quest start location and have a Grade 5 botanist harvest the greens you need to feed to the chocobo once a day for a week - and those greens would be sold out of those BTN's bazaars for a mil each for a month before all the "elities" got theirs first and felt superior for it.

You'd see forum topics like "SERVER FIRST CHOCOBO (PICS!)" and stupid bullsh!t like that.

I prefer this - and not just because it SEEMS easier on account of us having accidentally already met the requirements for it while playing July's patch with our already leveled-up jobs.