Legacy Chocobo

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Considering how upset people got about the earing situation a couple years ago, i highly doubt that any more legacy items will find their way back into the game. I didnt earn them, so im fine not having them.

I remember that I was brand new at the time! I had no idea why people were so mad I could get a rather unimpressive looking earring. It was the first earring glamour I ever had. Swap me the earrings for the birb xD

[Shougun]

On the subject of chocobo I still, personally and I know this is relatively silly, wish the chocobo was barding and a tattoo toggle. My birb is my birb, and the mark is on my birb, and the barding is what goes ON MY BIRB! lol. That it's an entirely separate mount is a minor mental gymnastic I don't particularly appreciate XD. More tangent I feel the multi-color magitek could have been represented with a garage system and keys over just a new mount for every color, would make more in game lore sense if we could just paint these bad boys *slaps hood of mammet fueled magitek*.

As for topic I generally think it wouldn't go down well for some as I'm fairly certain this was one of the items they were more like "once and gone". That said I'm not really big into one and done, and we've had a huge period of exclusivity. Also we've other major benefits still so, still special lol. Personally would be okay if it was brought out of the vault, I just want to predeclare there would be some disgruntled.

Like Varilyon said though it would be way more epic if you get to relive some of it- seeing the moon in the sky again with the awesome skybox, instance of the city being attacked, that would be quite cool. Personally, in discussion of that, and man I love tangents lol, they should strongly consider this in general. Sell, maybe on their specific seasonal days, seasonal packages, fair price, comes with the quest and related content- allow players to enjoy the event itself (potential problems for the 2player valentine event, may need npc....).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I mean, they cant relive it. The experience is not going to be there. The feeling isn't there.

The chocobo is the way that it is because it was at cartenaeu on that day, because we were there.

You cant just... Buy that....

The chocobo wandered around for 5 years waiting for you to return.... That's not something someone buying it gets.

[Shougun]

I mean, they cant relive it. The experience is not going to be there. The feeling isn't there.

They could make it a sequence though- go to sleep in bed, wake up with relic on bed, fall through room to Atomos eating an Aetheryte, clear Aethertyte, touch it, teleport to the green highlands, wander around with big moon in background, do some kingdom hearts like panning, plop them onto the Nael Van Darnus platform, fight, win, wake up in bed, heck it, get chocobo from underneath bed.

To be honest though with all that work, one might create it as a public event on an anniversary day first (free) only so players could enjoy that work together. Certainly it's easier to suggest to allow players to get to relive the event than it is to make an event for players to get to enjoy.

I understand you're saying they can't relive it exactly, but wasn't really the point I think- it was just to give it some back story. I can vaguely explain all of FFXIV in less than 5 minutes, enough that someone will 'get it' starting in Shadowbringer, but of course they wont get it like someone who played all 100+ hours of MSQ. Yet that 5 mins would make a much larger impact than 0 mins lol. Difference from getting an item in the mail and getting a little exposition first. Sure it wont be exactly the same, and in some ways that's probably a good thing lol, maybe make the players go through the old market wards. . . . :3.

The chocobo wandered around for 5 years waiting for you to return.... That's not something someone buying it gets.

Just toss it into Althyk's pocket dimension for a little while, no big deal. Don't tell PETA .

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I mean, they cant relive it. The experience is not going to be there. The feeling isn't there.

The chocobo is the way that it is because it was at cartenaeu on that day, because we were there.

You cant just... Buy that....

The chocobo wandered around for 5 years waiting for you to return.... That's not something someone buying it gets.

I mean.. you could just buy that. Would be epic if me and my beloved birb could make that experience for ourselves canon and not just a cutscene I had to watch on youtube. What a way to strengthen the bond between player and chocobo! Agree somewhat with the person above, making it a barding would be good. Honestly a quest where instead of the GC issuing you a chocobo replace it by the finding of your long lost companion! How great that would be <3 You hear tell of a wild chocobo racing around (your starting zone) locals fear for the birds safety as monsters have been sighted in the area! Go find the chocobo, que touching reunion and flashback to Cartenaue.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Well, if they ever do this, I want to see ultimate achievements with totems in the same store update, ranked pvp rewards, etc. Just go full into it.

Make everyone unhappy at once.

[Shougun]

Well, if they ever do this, I want to see ultimate achievements with totems in the same store update, ranked pvp rewards, etc. Just go full into it.

Make everyone unhappy at once.

That's the spirit! Wax em and rip the band-aid off!

Honestly I doubt they would, though I probably would have said that about the earrings too lol.

[Lanadra]

This entire thing just mostly reminds me of Founders stuff in Warframe, where every so often people get the great idea that they should get all the Founders goodies.. something people got for keeping the game going long enough for it to become actually successful and viable. All it does is breed bad sentiment to even entertain such notions.

Legacy stuff isn't just 'another item I can now get', it is stuff that has a far deeper meaning to both the folks who have it (which for the record, quite categorically does not include me, I started a year ago) and the developers of the game. These are people who stuck by FFXIV when most others would not, hell, I know I specifically avoided this game because 1.0 was shit and a lost cause. It's not an item to sell, it's a heartfelt thank you from Yoshi P and team to those who stuck with 1.0 and rejoined in ARR.

No. Nobody should ever be able to get these things now. No matter how unfair some might think that be to them.

[Keramory]

This thread has been eye opening. I had no idea there was a single human being out there that liked that chocobo. I disliked the gear on it so much when I first got it in 1.0. Can safely say I've never summoned it by choice in all my years playing. What do you guys like about it vs a regular chocobo?

That 1.0 goobie on the other hand. That's my bae.

As for the subject itself, my opinion has been the same on anything 1.0 item related. Release it to the masses. Was a nice treat for the... what 10 years now? Seems bizarre to keep it to the 5 legacy players still active in this game. There's a similar crown item they did for Ballista in FFXI many, many years back. A one time thing. Most awesome award to get... but I'm sure not a single person from that team still plays. So why keep the item locked from the rest of the game? Doesn't make sense at a certain point.

[Enkidoh]

This thread has been eye opening. I had no idea there was a single human being out there that liked that chocobo. I disliked the gear on it so much when I first got it in 1.0. Can safely say I've never summoned it by choice in all my years playing. What do you guys like about it vs a regular chocobo?

That 1.0 goobie on the other hand. That's my bae.

The Legacy Chocobo was actually never available in 1.0 though - we had to wait til ARR launched (and went into full service, it wasn't even available in Beta phase 4, ala early access) before those with Legacy membership attaintment gained it.

It's also a completely different mount to your Company Chocobo, even the 1.0 Company Chocobo, so exactly where the Legacy one came from, is anyone's guess (but the singed feathers all but scream "it was at Cartenau and barely made it out alive").

As for why to keep it special? Because it was a specific thank you to players sticking with 1.0 right when they needed it the most (as in, paying for subscription when they finally turned 1.0 subscriptions on as so many players abandoned the game at that point). It was part of a bigger package that Legacy status gave - day 1 access to Phase 1 of the ARR Beta Test (I still remember all the vitriol on this very forum about that), permanent reduced subscription fees for ARR (Legacy fee sub tier has all the benefits of the 'standard' fee sub tier but only costs the same as the 'Entry' tier), and, we got our names in the end credits (under 'Meteor Survivors').

The Legacy Chocobo thus is specifically associated with this attainment, and so SE making it available again would go against everything Yoshi has said in the past about the principles he abides by in helming the development of this game. He simply is not going to throw Legacy players under the bus again like that.