Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
Large volumes of players who ride around on Drakes, etc. ... will make this game more like your fly-by-night, run-of-the-mill MMO than a Final Fantasy Game.

My concern is that what might seem extremely cool for your character, will become very silly once you see everyone doing it.
If he were saying, "We're adding monster mounts! Just do this quest!" I'd agree, but I think your concerns are unfounded. Most of the people who tried XIV already are gone; a lot who are playing now won't be paying for it (and remember, the forum polls only apply to people who like the game enough to hang out on its FORUM to begin with, skewing the results upwards), and then we have all of the people who were waiting for PS3 and/or don't have a computer capable of running it.

In the long-term, these mounts will be rare; and because FINAL FANTASY = CHOCOBO (or maybe magitek), I don't think it will look silly, I think it will say, "Wow, what the hell did THAT guy do to be able to tame THAT? ... Oh, survived the apocalypse? Well now!"

In 2015~2018 that'll mean something totally different than for that time in 2013 when it was commonplace. Again, when was the last time you saw a pair of Red Eyes or a Rabbit Belt or a Harpsichord? I don't think most players have ever even SEEN some of that, especially the Harpsichord mog house decoration.