More mount variety

[Exidrial]

Okay, dunno if this is the right section for this.

Basically most mounts in the game are just reskins from other mounts.
The ponies, birds and magitek armors easily are 50% of all the mounts in the game.

While that's okaaayyyy I'd still like to have more variety.

I was thinking about different kinds of dragons or chocobos as a mount.I mean how awesome would be a Rambunctious Chocobo with it's theme from XIII-2 playing when you're riding it? (Just think about all the people who don't know the theme and suddenly go like "Whoah" xD)
Or maybe new stuff all together. Different tamed monsters, dunno a yeti or something.

SE always manages to come up with cool design ideas, now how about mount collectors like myself get some love as well?

[Roth_Trailfinder]

For all intents and purposes, every mount is almost exactly the same. The only differences are whether or not it can Fly (which, apparently, will also be whether or not it can Swim), and whether or not its got some special, useless animation.

They all travel at the same speed (there may be some differences between a flying mount in the air vs on the ground, and vs a non-flying mount; but within those groups they all travel at the same speed), so there really isn't anything important to differentiate one flier from another, or one non-flier from another.

Personally, I'd rather it if fewer pointless mounts were introduced, rather than more pointless mounts. There are other things I'd rather see Dev time on : instanced fights, dungeons, raids, quests.

[ErryK]

There are other things I'd rather see Dev time on : instanced fights, dungeons, raids, quests.

Not all of their staff convenes to make a few mounts, just saying. :x

[Exidrial]

For all intents and purposes, every mount is almost exactly the same. The only differences are whether or not it can Fly (which, apparently, will also be whether or not it can Swim), and whether or not its got some special, useless animation.

They all travel at the same speed (there may be some differences between a flying mount in the air vs on the ground, and vs a non-flying mount; but within those groups they all travel at the same speed), so there really isn't anything important to differentiate one flier from another, or one non-flier from another.

Minions serve no purpose as well, yet people collect them.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

So?

Any dev that is put on pointless mounts is a dev taken away from other stuff.

[NinjaPenguin]

So?

Any dev that is put on pointless mounts is a dev taken away from other stuff.

No. Their staff is well organized into teams. They have a gear team to design gear sets and such. They have a team for housing. They have raid team who design raids. Im pretty sure mounts and minions are a seperate team

[caelumsixsmith]

I think that would be interesting. It's kinda disappointing, for example, that the theme song for the black chocobo (just got mine yesterday) is exactly the same as the regular chocobo. Since they're both chocobos, would be cool to at least have a different theme song, especially since the black chocobo is meant for HW. Can you imagine running around those maps whilst listening to a tune fitting the expansion? :P

But other than that, it's like Roth said. In ARR areas, mounts only serve a cosmetic purpose. However, I agree that it would be cool to have more than the same horses with different colors and a few other mounts that were clearly used as the base model for others. As much as they are just cosmetic, it's clear they didn't put much thought into many of them.

And I agree with NinjaPenguin, btw. After FFXIII and the disaster XIV 1.0 was, Square Enix would be crazy not to better organize themselves.

[Tint]

i rather have 2 new and 2 reskins every once a while than 2 new and no reskins. more variety is nice, but removing the reskins will not lead to more original mounts: it will lead to less mounts overall. and even when they add more mount variety, why remove the reskins? we could have 3 new and 3 reskins every once a while. that's still better than 3 new and no reskins.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Lord of Verminion was a purpose for collecting minions, not that many, if any, care about it.

And to a previous poster, I strongly doubt that SE has a team exclusively for mounts. Any dev assigned to work on mounts is being taken off of something else.