Mount up for the situation!

[Maxthunder]

This isnt a bad idea but... I personally would not support this idea. The fact is players should beable to go anywhere in the game that is allowed by the programers. Now not everyone will decide to get specific mounts and players should not be made to do so, just to go to what-ever-area it is. Just like the goobue mount I myself will get it to have it but never use it, other than when I first get it to just try it out. Content should be made avaiable to everyone. Missions and exspansion are a different story for a pre-req but to actually have to have a specific mount, I prefer that FFXIV not go that route. In closeing this is why I say the developers should add a survey and the answeres can be only a yes or a no. Players want all this stuff added because they believe it will be fun or enjoyable but in the end when it is actually done it isnt what it was cracked up to be.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I think it would be a good idea, but make it so it's to get to certain high level Aetherites maybe? That way if you don't want to get the mount yourself, just get a friend who has it to port you there.

That or just sight seeing or alternate XP / farming camps.

Just my opinion.

[Zantetsuken]

All non-chocobo mounts should have specific roles, ie to pass special areas.

One of the main reasons I'm opposed to this haphazard implementation of this Goobbue mount is because SE missed a golden opportunity to really make new mounts mean something more than a Chocobo model-swap gimmick.

Some possibilities:

• A shack near a swamp where players could rent Goobbue Mounts to cross
• Magitek for cold areas
• Drakes for volcano type zones
• Large bird mounts (like Roc) for flying through mountain passes
• Submarine for deep sea exploration
• Boat for traveling up river...
• Ahriman for underground chasms

Players could either rent the mounts in the region for which they are used, or better yet, fulfill a quest by which they would be able to use them for free.

Most living mounts could leave their respective areas but the rental timers and perhaps natural limitations outside their preferred terrain would limit their use.

For everything else, a wide variety of Chocobos with a large assortment of armor and gear for the birds.

[syntaxlies]

I think it would be cool and very Final Fantasy-like if these mounts we are getting actually served a purpose for certain parts of the map. Take the Gobbue for instance. A tall mount would be great for walking in water or swampy areas. A Drake would be able to get through certain tempratures i.e. fire areas. The floating eye would assist us in getting across those small gaps we can't access.

These are obviously just examples but I think these are great ideas for the mounts coming are way. Give us a reason to use them, to obtain them. Have a purpose for them other than getting us from point A to B that we have already discovered both on foot and on Chocobo a million times. Bring significance to each new mount with a means of assisting us to get to areas we couldnt get to with a previous mount.

What does everyone think of this?

wouldn't the eye be able to get over everything since it flys