One thing every MMO player looks for in a game is what kind of mounts are available. In Final Fantasy XIV, several mounts have already been revealed such as a Chocobo, a Unicorn and the Collector’s Edition exclusive Coeurl mount. Well, what about a flying mount? Can we expect one such mount at some point?
In a big world that players can explore like Eorzea, many would appreciate a flying mount to ease exploration. There’s some evidence that this is one thing players can expect to arrive in the game. According to Square Enix, they are considering having a flying mount that will actually take off into the sky, though it will most likely arrive in the next expansion. As for when we can expect this airborne mount, your guess is as good as ours.
Here’s the full statement of Square Enix in regards to the flying mount:
We are thinking about having flying mounts that actually fly in the sky be a part of a large expansion in the future. We can’t promise a time period, but this is something quite important to us, so please look forward to a future announcement.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be available August 27th on both PS3 and PC. Check back with us regularly for more Final Fantasy XIV news.
Jessica
August 19, 2013 at 6:42 PMHaving your own airship that you could customize would be amazing.
Borj
August 19, 2013 at 9:21 PMFor FF series that would be possible. Cid is there to customize every characters airship. and when it comes to flying monsters as mount. Yuna did that in FF10 so I think it would be good as well.
JapzLapeno
August 20, 2013 at 5:29 PMJust so long as they stick to something from the FF franchise, or a tamed version of a newer in-game monster. Airships would be awesome, but for summon-able mounts, i think monsters would be more appropriate. Couldn’t you breed a chocobo that could fly in VII?
Mark Fajardo
August 20, 2013 at 6:12 PMYep, i remember there was a flying Chocobo. Hopefully that will happen :D
Schliggerments
August 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM@JapzLapeno- I believe that was FF9 that had a flying chocobo. FF7 had golden chocobos that allowed you to cross all terrain.
I think an airship that you could fly would be awesome… very SWG:JTL. It would be awesome to have a racing area or pvp area (between ships).
Brian
August 28, 2013 at 1:52 PMEven as far back as FF2 (US) the black chocobo could fly.
Revile
August 29, 2013 at 9:09 PMOh my…. I was sitting here wanting a 2Handed sword class. I didn’t even think about flying mounts…. that would be so awesome! Especially if they had both mechanical ships and animal/monster mounts. Maybe even an area in the clouds similar to Hayao Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky” film.