What's our next Companion? Is it a Moogle?

[Veritas-Ancora]

We've been leveling the same chocobo companion for over 11 years now. Most of us have capped its level by now.

The UI calls chocobo a "Companion" rather than just "chocobo" that's summoned by gysahl greens, so it feels like they intended on having more than one companion at some point during its creation.

So what is it, and why is it a fluffy flying furry moogle?

/giveskuponuts

[CVXIV]

time to make the companion feature a better summoner
chocobo for damage w/ choco meteor
moogle for healer for pom cure

[Astronema]

Our minions could fit that role or the old squad members.

[hydralus]

It was funny being able to talk about your chocobo to Ardbert. Like damn I haven't thought about the bird for 2 years.

[Catwho]

1.0 actually had an NPC for a companion. You quested with them as part of the whole Path of the Twelve storyline with Minfilia.

I assume my companion died during the Calamity But it would be amazing if you had the option to be "reunited" with your 1.0 companion for characters that played back then, or to form a new relationship with a Cartenau survivor NPC even if your character wasn't part of that.

[Veritas-Ancora]

1.0 actually had an NPC for a companion. You quested with them as part of the whole Path of the Twelve storyline with Minfilia.

I assume my companion died during the Calamity But it would be amazing if you had the option to be "reunited" with your 1.0 companion for characters that played back then, or to form a new relationship with a Cartenau survivor NPC even if your character wasn't part of that.

Oh wow I never knew that. That's awesome. Maybe that info is lost but either a retainer or squadron has existed since then!

[Daughterofdeath]

I wish they would let us choice honestly with beastmaster let us tame w/e we want as our new one and let us pick anything in the game w want without the devs bias on "it doesnt suit a wol for x nonsense" let me have a zombie or skeleton slave as a companion

[Enkidoh]

Oh wow I never knew that. That's awesome. Maybe that info is lost but either a retainer or squadron has existed since then!

I've been mentioning about the Path Companions for years! And yes, it was assumed they died in the Calamity (they were an Ala Mhigan member of the Path of the Twelve, Miniflia's predecessor organisation to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. Alas they weren't really a 1.0 equivelant to the Chocobo Companion as they only appeared during certain Path of the Twelve main scenario quests, which ended at patch 1.18 - the story then became the 'Seventh Umbral Era' story that led into the Calamity and 1.0's shut down, and the Path Companion was never seen again; and sadly they couldn't just be summoned whenever you wished, and by all accounts, when Yoshi took over leading FFXIV's development, the Path Companion was abandoned as a gameplay idea).

Alas sadly now I think also the Chocobo Companion has been equally abandoned by SE as redundant content not worth further expansion on, and given player behaviour guides development, can you really blame them? The player tail wagged the development dog unfortunately and the Chocobo Companion was unfortunately a victim of that.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I wish they would let us choice honestly with beastmaster let us tame w/e we want as our new one and let us pick anything in the game w want without the devs bias on "it doesnt suit a wol for x nonsense" let me have a zombie or skeleton slave as a companion

Yes! I still want a dragon lol

[Cidel]

I don't have the comment saved nor do I remember exactly which Live Letter or Q&A it was mentioned in, because it was alllll the way back in early SB or maybe even HW, so it's vague enough in my memory that I can't recite it verbatim so take it with a grain of salt if it makes you feel better- but Yoshida had stated that they do not want to make another companion because of the spaghetti codehow "complicated" it is/was to program another "pet" that can be programmed with different stances and a skill tree, and that creating another leveling system for another companion was essentially "too complicated" or "too time-consuming."

Like already mentioned, it just seems to be another neglected and abandoned system created early-on in the game (like Squadrons, among other things), and the devs only acknowledge it in the sense that despite not being interested in improving it, they do still like to create paper doll outfits for chocobos as content "rewards."

But. But... With how they seem to be continually investing resources into single-player-proofing the game ("we added Duty Support to a 10 year-old ARR dungeon guys! look how productive we are!"), I wouldn't give-up hope completely. Maybe later down the line (sooner rather than later at this point <_<; ), when XIV has kind of hit where XI is right now (with low activity necessitating dozens of Trust NPCs), the need for another companion might arise... And then they'll magically somehow be able to implement one then.