Why must chocobos be our companions

[Andrien]

Never bothered checking this thread out before because I thought it was just troll bait; But wow some people are getting serious.



chocobo in battle been part of final fantasy for a long time. some games even have chocobo summon, chocobo forest, knights, cavalry like the destrier from san d'oria; ffxi during the crystal war period. This seriously beats having a lame chocobo that is only good as a mount only.


Besides, I thought path companion is exclusive to story missions only.

[Felis]

The chocobos aren't our companions, they are our buddies.
The companions come later again, outside the main story.

[Felis]

Forget the new players for a minute... how about the current playerbase? The "loyal" players..

Yoshi promised about a year that a buddy system is coming, where we can raise chocobos and fight with them. He promised it to the players who still play today, the loyal players.

edit: found it
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post233227

you see, fighting and dressing for chocobo is planned since summer last year.

[sharazisspecial]

I think it would be more logical to have a pet class than to give everyone a companion. And seriously, some of us are tired of chocobo. Maybe we're not diehard final fantasy fans like rest of you guys, but it seems kinda lame...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhjkC5d7KCo Vid- FFXIII-2 Chocobo fighting.

Basically ima say what I said yesterday, there's not gonna be any point arguing some will be for & some will be against, I happen to be against & neither of our opinions will rly matter.

The way chocobos in ffxiii-2 fought was so silly and lame looking. The behemoth chocobo is going to look so silly with its goofy looking chocobo kicking lol.

[Felis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1dpG1JdvYM

[sharazisspecial]

FFXIV chocs are going to look more like ffxiii-2 chocobos then tactics. Especially since the chocobos will have jobs which they did in ffxiii-2 .

Whereas in tactics chocobos are mostly magic based depending on their colour which would look alot better then MRD chocobos kicking and pecking the enemy like crazy ostriches.

[Valmonte]

Dragoon Chocobo AKA the yellow Porcupine

[Mujen]

Yoshi promised about a year that a buddy system is coming, where we can raise chocobos and fight with them. He promised it to the players who still play today, the loyal players.

edit: found it
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post233227

you see, fighting and dressing for chocobo is planned since summer last year.

Well that comment was in regards to my 2-man discussion with Alhanelem, which I was trying to tell him & all the others who wanna argue about meaningless stuff that, some of us will just disagree & some of us will like it, I happen to disagree. I was trying to tell him 1st issues need to be fixed before addition, esp for loyal players.

I personally have no issues w/ chocobos defending us, or wanting to be brave. I just, personally, rather have an awesome pet class than a chocobo as my combat buddy. Btw this isn't directed at you, Felis, this is now towards those wanting to hate on me...
So I've already explained this argument is meaningless, and I didn't even wanna get into it, but ppl wanna argue/ "discuss" for the sake of it, fine... But now I'm wrong cuz chocobos have been around since day 1... so 4 of the FF games I've played/sampled had no chocobo companion.. where is this "day 1" we talking about?? What now?? Hate on me some more!!
I think this shyt it lame and will say so IF/When it becomes unlame. "Oh well it's same as hume NPC skin model but w/ chocobo"... Okay well I think a Red XIII "companion" would be badass.. "NO!! that's blasphemy!" Like wtf?

Summary:
#1 2/13+ FF had chocobo companions/party members?? = "Chocobo companions been around since day1" ???
#2 IF someone thinks something is lame, they have a right to their opinion.
#3 IF you had just not indulged the argument from the start Like I said, wouldn't have gotten this far.
#4 Srsly ur backing up ur argument for chocobo companion in the history of FF from 2/13+ games?? I haven't played all the games, but 4/13+ I never had a chocobo party member/companion so plz oh great FF lore fans, enlighten me.. I know they fought while riding chocobo..

[Alhanelem]

I was trying to tell him 1st issues need to be fixed before addition, esp for loyal players.

And I was trying to tell you the issues ARE being fixed, therefore additions can be made. The game won't be any fun if all you do is fix bugs. Many of us have beaten all the content already, so if the bugs are fixed, that's great, but what do we do now?

You can't exclusively spend your time making fixes and tweaks, and you can't exclusively spend time making new content. You have to do both, and SE has teams devoted to each aspect. There is a team that handles content creation, there are engineers who work with the code and hammer out bugs, and there are designers who make the UI more useable and stuff like that. They've stated a lot of fixes that they've been making- there's no reason to believe they are not fixing stuff. This isn't a new feature that was announced yesterday and all development time is being dumped into. It, like most other features in the game, was worked on here and there over a long period of time (And we've known about chocobos in combat since the very first 2.0 image was released from its announcement).

You don't like this feature and that's fine. I'm cool with that. But just because they're making this, it doesn't mean that the rest of the game isn't being worked on. Having worked with development teams before, I can tell you from experience that you don't just work on one thing at a time.

I just, personally, rather have an awesome pet class than a chocobo as my combat buddy

You do realize that you're getting your awesome pet class too, right?? Chocobos are not going to be the only things that will follow you into battle. Maybe you haven't heard about Arcanist/Summoner yet...

[Mujen]

And I was trying to tell you the issues ARE being fixed, therefore additions can be made. The game won't be any fun if all you do is fix bugs. Many of us have beaten all the content already, so if the bugs are fixed, that's great, but what do we do now?

You can't exclusively spend your time making fixes and tweaks, and you can't exclusively spend time making new content. You have to do both, and SE has teams devoted to each aspect. There is a team that handles content creation, there are engineers who work with the code and hammer out bugs, and there are designers who make the UI more useable and stuff like that. They've stated a lot of fixes that they've been making- there's no reason to believe they are not fixing stuff. This isn't a new feature that was announced yesterday and all development time is being dumped into. It, like most other features in the game, was worked on here and there over a long period of time (And we've known about chocobos in combat since the very first 2.0 image was released from its announcement).

You don't like this feature and that's fine. I'm cool with that. But just because they're making this, it doesn't mean that the rest of the game isn't being worked on. Having worked with development teams before, I can tell you from experience that you don't just work on one thing at a time.

You do realize that you're getting your awesome pet class too, right?? Chocobos are not going to be the only things that will follow you into battle. Maybe you haven't heard about Arcanist/Summoner yet...

We know practically 2 sentences about Arcanist & Summoner: Arcanist/SMN enfeeble/DoT; arcanist use carbuncle & SMN use avatar spirits, and arcanist attack w/ book animation, that's supposed to be funny. What else is there? Doesn't sound like a lot of info.

Regarding issues, we can't tell until Beta/Release. Did they mention endgame development? All they said was they don't like speed runs.. Most of the information is all over the place, a few members have done very good job of trying to keep it together:
Coming-in-Version-2.0! - Zetsumei_Tsunarashi
Translations-JP-to-English - Reinheart