What is the point of mount drops...

[Malmstrom]

... if there is no reason to be out in the world flying them?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

... if there is no reason to be out in the world flying them?

Ahh, another "this game doesnt give me exactly what i want in the open world, so therefore, theres nothing to do at all in the open world and its all pointless" Malmstrom thread.

[Malmstrom]

Ahh, another "this game doesnt give me exactly what i want in the open world, so therefore, theres nothing to do at all in the open world and its all pointless" Malmstrom threads.

Ah yes, the assumption that I limit myself on what I want to do and therefore there is nothing for me.

Except I don't. I have done all sorts of things, and am continuously disappointed there is not more.

But here, I can play that game too...

Ahh, another response from a person that hasn't done anything out in the world at all and is content with instanced content.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Ah yes, the assumption that I limit myself on what I want to do and therefore there is nothing for me.

Except I don't. I have done all sorts of things, and am continuously disappointed there is not more.

But here, I can play that game too...

Ahh, another response from a person that hasn't done anything out in the world at all and is content with instanced content.

I actually spend quite a bit of time in the open world. Thanks for trying tho!

[yukiiyuki]

I actually spend quite a bit of time in the open world. Thanks for trying tho!

>Open world
You tried, kek
Also, most mounts are ugly af or just look dumb. Like, flying bed and variety of chairs, sometimes it feels like you're too big for a mount. Still waiting for flying toilet that does fart sounds while in air, that would be great idea on par with bed.
And there no armory to check them all, no mount drops from dungeons, literally 7 recollors of the same mount. As someone told, WoW did it better, you should check it out, it even have mount showoffs.
And yeah, people should understand that 14 love silly stuff and don't care about any immersion

[Saefinn]

>Open world
You tried, kek
Also, most mounts are ugly af or just look dumb. Like, flying bed and variety of chairs, sometimes it feels like you're too big for a mount. Still waiting for flying toilet that does fart sounds while in air, that would be great idea on par with bed.
And there no armory to check them all, no mount drops from dungeons, literally 7 recollors of the same mount. As someone told, WoW did it better, you should check it out, it even have mount showoffs.
And yeah, people should understand that 14 love silly stuff and don't care about any immersion

Odd because I've always found it much easier to immerse myself in this world than WoW. Maybe it's the silly stuff isn't so immersion breaking and in many cases, is appropriate, given the game's ability to mix down-to-earth serious plot with something more relaxed and sillier plots and even more ludicrous ones like the Manderville questline. So I'd argue that some of the sillier stuff is plenty fitting. Even if, they're pretty loose, but immersion is often more about how things are delivered if anything.

Nier on the other hand, I'd understand any argument to say that it doesn't fit, but we're not all the way through to see how they're trying to make that one work. But luckily is a side thing.

On the chairs and beds...Matoya already enchants her brooms, which Matoya did in the very first Final Fantasy game. Enchanting a chair or a bed in a world with a heavy use of magic would not really be that much of a stretch if somebody though it'd be fun to enchant. It's dumb, sure, but people like being dumb sometimes, both in a fantasy world and the real world. I'd expect it's something a Sheogorath type character from TES would do.

People using it as their mount out in the world and seeing lots of these dumb mounts? I find a lot of the time people roaming the world is rarely a part of the immersive experience in an MMORPG. Because somebody could be just teabagging another person in the street with the guards just watching all like, "this is perfectly acceptable behaviour" and people then running around proclaming to be Ugandan Knuckles. Then a hundred people in super edgy demonic armour atop big dragons casually hanging out in Stormwind like its any other day. This I think is just something you block out if you're looking for an immersive experience in an MMO.

But what's not fitting is Gaia's lips. She doesn't look like she belongs. That'll I'll happily concede to.

[Beelhi]

>Open world
You tried, kek
Also, most mounts are ugly af or just look dumb. Like, flying bed and variety of chairs, sometimes it feels like you're too big for a mount. Still waiting for flying toilet that does fart sounds while in air, that would be great idea on par with bed.
And there no armory to check them all, no mount drops from dungeons, literally 7 recollors of the same mount. As someone told, WoW did it better, you should check it out, it even have mount showoffs.
And yeah, people should understand that 14 love silly stuff and don't care about any immersion

Omg YES I LOVED not getting mounts for years and years on end We should totally expect people to run savage and trials for 5-6 years to get the mount! Wonder why they didn't think of doing that with FFXIV!

/s

(also fyi, there is a dungeon mount)

[Avidria]

>Open world
You tried, kek
Also, most mounts are ugly af or just look dumb. Like, flying bed and variety of chairs, sometimes it feels like you're too big for a mount. Still waiting for flying toilet that does fart sounds while in air, that would be great idea on par with bed.
And there no armory to check them all, no mount drops from dungeons, literally 7 recollors of the same mount. As someone told, WoW did it better, you should check it out, it even have mount showoffs.
And yeah, people should understand that 14 love silly stuff and don't care about any immersion

WoW has absolutely no recolored or silly mounts
None whatsoever. Nope. Definitely not.
Lmao

I mean I love collecting mounts in WoW way more than here, but come on dude :P Blizz has been reusing assets and adding silly joke crap since before FFXIV existed

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

>Open world
You tried, kek
Also, most mounts are ugly af or just look dumb. Like, flying bed and variety of chairs, sometimes it feels like you're too big for a mount. Still waiting for flying toilet that does fart sounds while in air, that would be great idea on par with bed.
And there no armory to check them all, no mount drops from dungeons, literally 7 recollors of the same mount. As someone told, WoW did it better, you should check it out, it even have mount showoffs.
And yeah, people should understand that 14 love silly stuff and don't care about any immersion

If you like WoW so much, I hear its still in service and guess what, you can go play it! I don't think I've ever seen you post a positive thing about XIV, so why are you here?

[Elladie]

Ah yes, the assumption that I limit myself on what I want to do and therefore there is nothing for me.

Except I don't. I have done all sorts of things, and am continuously disappointed there is not more.

But here, I can play that game too...

Ahh, another response from a person that hasn't done anything out in the world at all and is content with instanced content.

Another response from Malmstrom that continues to ignore everything there is to do in the open world because it doesn't fit their argument.

You and I have had this conversation before. When I told you the long list of things I do in the open world as I gather and level all my alt jobs, you didn't reply to me. There are very good reasons to continue doing things in the open world - Gil, tomes, mats, XP - but the choice whether to do them or not is yours. It's fine that you choose not to do them, but do please shut up spouting nonsense about nothing to do. I spend 80% of my time in the open world when I'm in game

I spend an hour in an area collecting all the mats I need from that area, I don't just port in, fly to an unspoiled node and port out again. I do FATEs for XP and the opportunity to tick another box in my challenge log as well as the currency in ShB that lets me buy stuff from NPCs. I farm mats from mobs. I do beast tribes for XP and for their currency. I do hunts and daily hunts for XP and tomes. This stuff takes me hours. (I love taking screenshots of the different areas too, I have a stack of beautiful ones I use as screen savers. But I acknowledge that last one is just a 'me' thing)