Please stop adding ground mounts

[StriderShinryu]

Wait. There's a flying hippo?!

Give me name and method of acquisition. Stat!

There is not yet, but there will be presumably via the Thavnair tribal quests. It's less a hippo and more a hippo that pulls a cart, but it is coming and it does fly!

[hfang]

forum people will find something to complain about i guess

[Restonance]

This is such a weirdly specific thing to complain about.

[hagare]

I just want dyeable mount man

[Rannie]

I just want dyeable mount man

We got it. It's called feeding your chocobo certain fruits and being hella patient

[hagare]

We got it. It's called feeding your chocobo certain fruits and being hella patient

I just want more dyeable mount man

[KurohNeko]

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.

Always bothered me too. They should have divided mounts into flying and non-flying and simply gave non-flying the riding map boosts which are also worthless when you can fly.

[ForteNightshade]

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.

Alternatively, they make some mounts unable to fly and they're immediately rendered worthless because of it. This is the precise reason they started making them all fly. People complained they had no reason to ever use some of their favourite mounts due to flying always being better. Furthermore, this isn't really an example of laziness but artistic limitation. It would look equally ridiculous for a Hippo or T-Rex to randomly sprout wings. So either they handwave the whole thing with "because aether" or we severely restrict the amount of mount variety.

[Evergrey]

Where's my origami mount?
On ground it's a horse, or whatever.
But when you get in the air it folds itself into a bird, or whatever.

[Mirhd]

Where's my origami mount?
On ground it's a horse, or whatever.
But when you get in the air it folds itself into a bird, or whatever.

This... actually sounds amazing. Also, you're no fun, OP. I'll continue riding my spinning Adamantoise, thanks. :P No idea how I don't fall off, but who cares! It's fun.