Optional item request: Legacy Goobue mount

[ElHeggunte]

I don't think they should bring it back, but only because SE said it was going to be exclusive to legacy players. Items that SE specifically said were to be exclusive should stay so. Items that just so happened to become exclusive because the game went belly up should be free game to be reintroduced.

[Kaedan94]

As someone who played 1.0 alpha all the way till they shut down the servers, I have to say that the game improved by leaps and bounds by the time 1.23 hit. However, the above poster is right that it was still fundamentally flawed. There are a few things I would have liked them to take from 1.0 when they released 2.0.

One in particular is Anima or teleporting. I would love it if they brought this back. However, they should mix what we have now with 1.0... meaning you could spend gil to "recharge" your anima at crystal.

As for the Goobue, absolutely not. It was a legacy exclusive, same as the Legacy Chocobo or the Legacy mark on our characters. Allowing people to buy it would defeat the entire purpose and be rather insulting. Re-skins, exactly what you have with the Beastmen Goobue, are fine. To ask for the original is insulting.

I got the Goobue on one of my characters, but not the other.

[Catwho]

As someone who played 1.0 alpha all the way till they shut down the servers, I have to say that the game improved by leaps and bounds by the time 1.23 hit. However, the above poster is right that it was still fundamentally flawed. There are a few things I would have liked them to take from 1.0 when they released 2.0.

One in particular is Anima or teleporting. I would love it if they brought this back. However, they should mix what we have now with 1.0... meaning you could spend gil to "recharge" your anima at crystal.

As for the Goobue, absolutely not. It was a legacy exclusive, same as the Legacy Chocobo or the Legacy mark on our characters. Allowing people to buy it would defeat the entire purpose and be rather insulting. Re-skins, exactly what you have with the Beastmen Goobue, are fine. To ask for the original is insulting.

I got the Goobue on one of my characters, but not the other.

I concur - I'd be okay with a reskin. Maybe a snow goobue?

My 1.0 character Taprara Rara has her goobue mount, and since I never got her through the 2.0 story, it's the one really cool thing she has whenever I fell the urge to roll around as a Lalafell in the game. (That, and her tattoo.)

Interestingly, the Legacy bird is available on a per account basis, so there are 2.0 era characters puttering around on the Legacy birds. The only characters with the Legacy Goobue mount, however, actually were in 1.0 for the summer where it was available.

[Emerald_Wyvern]

I'm conflicted on this. As a non-Legacy player who couldn't play 1.x because my pc was a popoto at the time, I do want this. However, it IS one of those things Legacy players deserve for sticking with the game. On the other hand, it's not like its the Legacy Chocobo or Mark. Not every Legacy player has it since, from what I read, it was from a side quest in Coerthas so it'd give both new players and old ones another shot at it. But then again, it would be devaluing the mount's significance. I'm fine if we don't get it, and I'm fine if we do.

[mbncd]

[Snip] Not every Legacy player has it since, from what I read, it was from a side quest in Coerthas so it'd give both new players and old ones another shot at it. [Snip]

Just to clarify, this is incorrect. It was not a quest reward. If you had a combat class at or above level 30, you spoke to the Wandering Minstrel south of Camp Bloodshore in La Noscea once, he told you a prophecy and then he gave you a horn that unlocked the mount. That single interaction gave you the item; it wasn't a quest and it wasn't in Coerthas.

Edit: Also, I'm a Legacy Campaign player, I supported the game when many others had run for the hills. I'd like it if the Goobbue had been tied to the account rather than to the character (I'm an alt-aholic and not all of my alts have it) but I'm fine with it being the way it is so that the integrity of the limited time run of the item/mount stays in tact. I disagree with the re-release of previous holiday items as well. To me, these limited time things represent memories, of the event, of the year, of the character's life, of the friends you did things with back then. To have those items be buyable (either with gil or cash) cheapens that. I'll notice someone wearing some event gear from years ago and try to reminisce about it with them only for them to not know where their item even came from since they just bought it. That's ... sad. To me at least. We're all entitled to our own opinions and that's just mine.

[reiichi]

Just to clarify, this is incorrect. It was not a quest reward. If you had a combat class at or above level 30, you spoke to the Wandering Minstrel south of Camp Bloodshore in La Noscea once, he told you a prophecy and then he gave you a horn that unlocked the mount. That single interaction gave you the item; it wasn't a quest and it wasn't in Coerthas.

Actually....I never got a combat class to 30 when I played 1.0. I got my goobbue with a lv30 BTN.

I hated running through La Noscea at the time to find the Wandering Minstral NPC.

[dragonkyn20]

No. Keep the Legacy Goobbue with the legacy players. They earned the right to use it for playing through 1.0.

[Cedri]

I'm glad to see you all supportive of Legacy players, we get a bad wrap a lot of the time. Thanks guys.

[Cedri]

Also, what's next? Our back tattoos? hahaha

[Pluvia]

Kinda wish the mount was account wide ended up playing a difference character after one of my statics fell apart