“Simply speak...” – Request for more in-depth contents

[Onizuka]

Greetings, adventurers.

Let me start this Topic by saying that any type of new content is a good thing, so I'm looking forward to the new Goobbue mount... and something tells me I'll hang around on top of my new pet near cliffs in La Noscea, just to listen to the beautiful Chrono Cross-style music.

That said, I read this in the patch notes, like Bayohne anticipated days ago:

The goobbue horn, used to summon the goobbue mount, can be obtained by players level 30 or above. To do so, simply speak with the "wandering minstrel" NPC, who can be found in eastern La Noscea (36,25).

Therefore, my request is: If in the future you plan to give us adventurers other type of mounts or presents like this, can you make it a little more... in-depth and challenging?
Nothing too exaggerated, but at least something that gives an Adventure!

Example of how the Goobbue could have been obtained:


We speak with the Wandering Minstrel, he tells us his story and, in order to give us his Goobbue Horn, a special Goobbue Notorious Monster has to be slain: a party of 4-6 level 30 adventurers would be needed to defeat him, while a level 50 might do it all my himself/herself, although with still a bit of challenge.
After proving our valor in slaying the fiend, the minstrel grants us the horn.
So one day, after the 7th Umbral Era, we'll be able to tell new adventurers of how we got our Goobbue pet and how exciting it was: A story worth to tell!


This is just a plain example to give an idea of my point, something that with a spoon-fed “Simply speak...” cannot be achieved.
Please take this kind of “more depths” to content/quests into consideration for the future, particularly for us living the temporary 7th Umbral Era period.

In the meantime, thank you Yoshida-san and the dev team for this new mount (and Great music ).

Cloudio Onizuka

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

It is a gift. How do you receive a gift? By doing a long and potentially life threatening mission?

No.

/endthread

[HiirNoivl]

Yeah it would have much more fun to have a non-instanced quest to wrangle the beasts ourselves. I was hoping for a more... Avatar-ish mount-getting experience.

Stare down my mount and put it in a freakin' headlock.

Ah well.

EDIT: Brucey, /endtread is rude not only to the OP but also to the other persons on the forums who probably would like to continue discussing. You and no other poster on this forum has any right or responsibility to /endthread. Thank you.

[Masamune1004]

I think it would've been awesome if he gave us the horn and we had to go out and charm our own goobbue from one of the high level areas.

[Zantetsuken]

This "gift" is no substitute for content - which is what the players want.

The Goobbue itself is no more than a model-swap for the Chocobo. It's mere cosmetic change and a poorly contrived one at that.

[Gramul]

It is a gift. How do you receive a gift? By doing a long and potentially life threatening mission?

No.

/endthread

How is an adventure not a gift in a game all about adventure?

[Atlas]

Geez, can you people stop complaining about every. Single. Thing?!
They're already working hard enough for 1.21 and 2.0.
As Bruce said, this is just a gift... more like a promo item (y'know, the thing that usually come with a Collector's Edition, and those don't have quests AFAIK).

Stop complaining.

/endthread act II

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

A gift is all about the experience in which is was given. If SE started of by saying that they wanted to include a new mount as a gift (which they did in the live letter), and made you do a lot of hoop jumping or placed a GC fee in order to receive it, then it isn't a gift.

You're lucky it just didn't pop up in your inventory for signing in. The fact that you don't have to go through a lot of hoop jumping, and they add in a bit of lore when they could have very well not done anything, validates you and the gift. They are just simply showing that you matter as a customer and giving you something fun with easy access. What more do you want from that? Honestly.

Any other content... I'd complain with you, but not when it was already stated to be a gift. You obviously don't know how to receive one.

Edit: Also, one more thing to add. How do you want challenging content to go along with a mount that is gained at Lv30? The only way to make this challenging is to make it into a big old fetch quest which would probably get you raging as much as you are about the subject currently you think is so gosh darn important. There is no winning. lol

[Yelta_Sumasu]

I'm torn. I like a good quest where you have to do exciting and interesting things to obtain fantastic rewards. However, like a poster said above it is a gift for hanging around after billing has begun and should be easily obtainable by everyone. I do think some story to explain why your character is obtaining this rare mount is a good thing.

[Irondude]

they probably have the quest design teams cranking out 2.0 quest and 1.21 job quest and the cost/benefit of adding a quest for an item that will not be available after a few more months probably didn't make sense to them. Also designing quest on a pre 2.0 engine is probably a pain.