Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
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.
3000 seals for a basic chocobo, there will still be breeding and other chocobo growth activties which may or may not be more involved than the XI version. Yoshi-P already stated it.

You are comparing getting 'lv1 chocobo' on XIV to getting 'lv99 chocobo' in XI and saying "lol XIV is easier lol". As far as we know, this initial personal chocobo may as well be worthless when mounted battles are implemented.