Let’s talk mounts and MMOs.
When Star Wars Galaxies launched, it did not have vehicles. It had neither speederbikes nor or ridable tauntauns. For almost six months, if you needed to get anywhere, you ran, just like impoverished moisture farmers on a backwater desert planet in the movies. Oh no wait, even they had landspeeders. It sucked. SWG was made up of very big maps. Mounts were very much needed.
On the flipside of that, I present to you Guild Wars 2. Someone in the comments is angrily posting right now that Guild Wars 2 already has mounts, and OK, I’ll grant you that non-combat, just-as-slow-as-running “travel toys” do exist in the game. But unlike SWG, GW2 doesn’t really need mounts. We can already get around pretty quickly. There are no vast expanses of nothing to traverse. Mounts would be — and are — purely cosmetic.
Surely there are MMOs out there in the same boat as SWG’s launch. Which MMO doesn’t have mounts — and needs them?
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