Quote Originally Posted by Matsume View Post
Yoshidasan has discussed jumping in one of the LIVE producer letters in which he explains that jumping on mounts is highly unlikely to be implemented. If I knew just where to look I would post the Link, but alas the videos tend to be lengthy (one or two hours) and I am not interested in spending that much time searching for this.
You do not remember that they've transcribed all the information into text? Took me less than a minute to find it. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/30508

44:17
Q: This wasn't mentioned in the FFXIV 2.0 announcement, but are there any updates on jumping and swimming?
A: Let's start with jumping. Since we're completely renovating the map for FFXIV 2.0, we'll have to perform a lot of tests when implementing jumping. We've debated waiting until Version 2.0 to do so. We are currently running various tests on it actually.

For swimming, we're looking at implementation sometime after 2.0. We think that being able to swim wouldn't be much fun by itself, so we'll also be adding areas that you can explore underwater, temples and the like. Please keep in mind that we're still in the very early stages of development.
* A work-in-progress video of jumping animations was shown at 44:52.

51:53
Q: Any chance chocobos will be able to swim and/or jump in the future?
A: First off, let's start with jumping. I've told the team that jumping while riding a mount is not a good idea. I see a lot of problems happening so I was very hesitant about that idea. However, there are many of us who'd like to see jumping chocobos. We're still in the middle of discussing the matter.

Next, swimming. Implementing swimming mounts will be very challenging. We will definitely have to get creative with how the animation will work in the water. If we do implement this, we might make it so that players will be able to swim only on the surface, but not dive under.