Comparing The Chocobo Quests in 11 and 14

[Teknoman]

People keep comparing personal chocos in XIV to rentals in XI, and they are not the same at all.

Rental:
FFXI: Get to rank 20 and do the choco quest as the OP stated (Takes 4hrs)
FFXIV: walk up to the rental guy and pay the fee to ride it (To my knowledge no quest at all)

Personal:
FFXI: Go through a several week process of carefully feeding your choco, then bread it with other chocos and repeat until you get a High rank on the skill to make it not worthless (Takes literally months)
FFXIV: Get 3000 Seals, doable in a day.

Technically these still arent the same since these chocobo are Company issued, pre trained Chocobo. Also it may not be doable in a day. We have no idea how many seals people under 50 (and there are alot) will be for completing caravan escorts or lower level added grand company quests. I'm level 33, and will most likely have to put in a decent amount of effort to snag those seals.

Even then, not everyone rank 45+ has beaten the Darkhold, so they may not have enough either.

Not only that, but dont forget that the XIV chocobo system will eventually go deeper (both breeding and chocobo based combat).