Every so often, there are pieces of information put out that are transparently false, stories so insane you know they simply must be fabricated... like the idea that Final Fantasy XIV
would promise the introduction of a new mount and that said mount would
be one of the toothy monsters known as a goobbue. It's the sort of
thing that could be immediately ignored as being a series of
enterprising photoshopped pictures if not for the fact that it's being passed along by the official site.
Yes, apparently, the lumbering beasts that terrorize players in both Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV
will be added to the stable of mounts alongside chocobos. The preview
video itself (embedded just after the break) states that they'll only be
available for a limited time before version 2.0; the lore article
claims that the very idea seems absurd even in the game world, but
there it is. Hopefully players can learn how to obtain the mount soon,
with the added caveat that we'll probably have to believe it's a real
thing at that point.