A Reiteration of a Previous Idea Regarding Wings as a "Mount"

[Kukajoo]

I have been thinking back on this idea which i believe has first been brought up around the time of heavenswards release (Of course) but i would like to recount the playerbase's thoughts on Wings, specifically wings that act as a mount that the players can fly with or "Hover" on the ground with. I Originally back in the heavensward days thought it may be too tacky but if they were implemented say like the wings on Kuribu, which look lovely in both well, appearance and positioning it could work out.

I say i would like square to implement them. Maybe make Kuribu's wings a future drop from POTD or a "primal mount" in the next expansion with their own series. What Do you think?

[Ametrine]

At this point we having players riding around on everything from giant, glowing, glittering faberge eggs, to ostriges in maid costumes, to Yo-Kai Watch carnival rides.

Wings are fine.

[LunaFaye]

I don't like wings it reminds me of these cheap f2p games that you find everywhere. However if you make them as a mount, I don't mind, just don't make them some weird shoulder/chest piece glamour attachment, and I would rather see actual creative and good looking wings, not this kind of angel/demon non sense.

[KisaiTenshi]

At this point we having players riding around on everything from giant, glowing, glittering faberge eggs, to ostriges in maid costumes, to Yo-Kai Watch carnival rides.

Wings are fine.

Another game did this already. They had Cherub wings (small wings) and Angel/Devil wings which were the large feather/leather kind. If you triggered the effect you simply floated without walking on air, you didn't fly. Given, once you let players fly without an actual mount, things get silly really fast.

If they put them in the game, that is another entire set of animations like the swimming ones. As much as i like the concept of this, I don't think it's something that should exist because there isn't a lore reason for it. Why would you ever have an airship if you can just slap on some wings.

[Pence]

Please no....if I wanted to play a tacky looking P2W Korean grinder I'd go play a tacky looking P2W Korean grinder.

[Kukajoo]

-yoink-

I undertand where you're coming from but why would i have an airship when i have a dragon? Or a legendary bird? Or a turtle that fly's with rockets it its shell?? Why does anyone have an airship when you can run outside and jump on a free and inexpensive bird. Those guys in the steppe have the right of it.
Point being most mount's are not lore connected. They're fun, we live in a world with flying horses, and obese chocobo's that can fly merely motivated by cake.

[Reinha]

Please no....if I wanted to play a tacky looking P2W Korean grinder I'd go play a tacky looking P2W Korean grinder.

I don't see how a new mount would make this game 1) P2W, 2) Korean or 3) a grinder. Tacky is subjective and you don't have to wear or use anything you personally find tacky.

Yes to wing mounts.

[Kukajoo]

Please no....if I wanted to play a tacky looking P2W Korean grinder I'd go play a tacky looking P2W Korean grinder.

They could always be attached to an achievement like the hunt for the tiger. That way they could exist and not have the game look like a "Tack p2w Korean Grinder"

[Evergrey]

PETA uses machines to travel.
We animal abusers use the poor creatures of the world to transport our fat behinds everywhere.
And we all know no one want's to do it outselves, which wings would have us do.
Because we are too good to do it ourselves.
We have others do it for us.

[KisaiTenshi]

I undertand where you're coming from but why would i have an airship when i have a dragon? Or a legendary bird? Or a turtle that fly's with rockets it its shell?? Why does anyone have an airship when you can run outside and jump on a free and inexpensive bird. Those guys in the steppe have the right of it.
Point being most mount's are not lore connected. They're fun, we live in a world with flying horses, and obese chocobo's that can fly merely motivated by cake.

Those are simply choices of things you can sit and relax on while it takes you somewhere. Canonically, none of our mounts exist except the Chocobo, Magitek Armor and the Mana cutter. But there are lore reasons for other mounts like the Unicorn existing though side quests.

That said, I'm not opposed to this thing, I'm just not seeing a lore reason for player characters to be able to acquire and fly/hover like birds or more like wearing a jet pack. I could see a Cid's Ironworks coming up with a personal "jetpack" type of thing, though I'd imagine it would probably be a reward to a (PvP?) aerial dogfight game than any special event reward.