Please stop adding ground mounts

[TheMightyMollusk]

Any mount can fly if you throw it hard enough.

The landing, on the other hand......

[Soge01]

Any mount can fly if you throw it hard enough.

The landing, on the other hand......

[Jeeqbit]

New patch and we get yet another slew of mounts that belong on the ground and look absolutely ridiculous flying. How many years has it been since flying was introduced, and yet we're STILL introducing mounts that lack wings or any logical means of aerial travel? We just have to accept a hippo can just magically fly around "because aether"? Why do we keep getting more and more fat ground-animals that shouldn't be able to fly?

If we aren't allowed to get mounts that belong on the ground then it would restrict the amount of mount designs we can get overall. In history a lot of things that you can ride have been on the ground and suddenly you want us to not be able to get any of these as mounts in the game?

Where are the dragons, where are the griffins, where are flying machines?

Dragons
Alte Roite, Rathalos, Syldra, Midgardsormr, Twintania, Wyvern, Ehll Tou, Diamond Gwiber, Emerald Gwiber, Gwiber of Light, Innocent Gwiber, Ruby Gwiber, Shadow Gwiber, Sanuwa (sort of)

Griffins
Griffin, True Griffin

Flying Machines
Aerodynamics System, Air Force, Al-iklil, Arrhidaeus, Construct 14, Construct VI-S, Construct VII, Cruise Chaser, Dreadnaught, Falcon, Gabriel α, Gabriel Mark III, Gilded Magitek Armor, Ginga, Gloria-class Airship, Gobwalker, Goten, Ironfrog Mover, Landerwaffe, Logistics System, Magitek Armor, Magitek Conveyor, Magitek Death Claw, Magitek Hyperconveyor, Magitek Predator, Magitek Sky Armor, Manacutter, Model O, Prototype Conveyor, Raigo, Regalia Type-G, Rolling Tankard, Safeguard System, Skyslipper (sort of because it hovers above ground), White Devil

I think the idea to make every mount be able to fly was a mistake, because it seems to have resulted in the devs getting lazy with new mounts where now they don't even attempt to make them make sense flying, they just copy-paste some monster and just give it the ability to fly and don't even attempt to not make it look absolutely ridiculous.

All mounts need to be able to fly because when they can't, it's not practical to use them. If there are certain mounts that don't let you fly, why would you ever use them? This was a big problem and all of the ground mounts were not used until it changed.

This doesn't mean that all of these ground animals should suddenly be given wings. If we want to RP with them, we can ride them on the ground and when we don't want to RP, we can fly with them and show off the mounts we've earned.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I want a 'mountless'-mount.

[Seraphor]

Literally wings, from Excitatron. We need this as a mount.

[Lecru]

"Stop adding mounts that have a dual purpose. Ones which can run AND fly. Because when you release a new area that I can't fly in, I want to complain that I can't use my favorite mount that can't be used on the ground. Sincerely, OP"

[StriderShinryu]

While I do agree that some mounts like ridiculous when in flight I also think there are some that just look silly when on the ground. Thing is there's a large variety of mounts that suit either and both environments so if you don't like the way something looks when you're flying, you can choose to not use that mount when you're going to be doing a lot of flying (and vice versa when you're going to be on the ground a lot like before having found all the Aethercurrents). That's pretty much on you.

[Krotoan]

When they stop making birds/airplanes in flight that have to "jump" then they can stop making things with no wings that can fly.

[Vencio]

New patch and we get yet another slew of mounts that belong on the ground and look absolutely ridiculous flying. How many years has it been since flying was introduced, and yet we're STILL introducing mounts that lack wings or any logical means of aerial travel? We just have to accept a hippo can just magically fly around "because aether"? Why do we keep getting more and more fat ground-animals that shouldn't be able to fly?

Where are the dragons, where are the griffins, where are flying machines? Come on. This is just ridiculous at this point. The best we got was the Nier pod which is fine, but that's really it? I'm sorry but I'm not padding MAU's by doing a month of daily quests to grind out a fat hippo that can just magically fly because reasons. It looks stupid, it has always looked stupid, please stop and start adding actual flying creatures already.

I think the idea to make every mount be able to fly was a mistake, because it seems to have resulted in the devs getting lazy with new mounts where now they don't even attempt to make them make sense flying, they just copy-paste some monster and just give it the ability to fly and don't even attempt to not make it look absolutely ridiculous.

Who took the jam out of your donut?

Absolutely not, keep adding ground mounts

[Gemina]

Wait. There's a flying hippo?!

Give me name and method of acquisition. Stat!