Weekly Discussion: Chocobo Racing : FFXI General Discussions

Chocobo Racing


After the Chocobo Raising　announcement was made recently, we received many comments and requests about Chocobo Racing. This surprised us, so we decided that we’d use this space to ask for more input about Chocobo Racing from all of you, so that we can make this feature as good as possible.

Like Chocobo Raising, this is a new feature developed completely from scratch, unlike the job and battle features which have been our main focus until now. Therefore, we want to include your hopes and dreams in order to make this feature meet everyone’s vision as closely as possible.

At the same time, there are many of you who might say “We haven’t played it yet, what are we supposed to suggest?!” Therefore, we have decided to include some of the mechanics of this new feature, outlined below. Please use them as a guide to imagine what Chocobo Racing could be like.

Currently Planned Specifications:
-The ability of raised chocobos will be reflected during Chocobo Racing.
-Chocobos will not be controllable by players during Chocobo Racing.
-It is possible to give orders (i.e. sprint ahead, come from behind, etc) to riders before the race.

While posting your comments onto the forum, we would appreciate any ideas related to “gambling” for example, as well as any other opinions or concerns regarding Chocobo Racing.

We look forward to hearing from you on the forums. Let’s keep those ideas rolling!


So far chocobo racing is looking pretty cool. Im still waiting though to atleast try it out more. Its beginning to look like the chocobo racing from FF7 and thats fun and all but eventually it will get old. Lets see if they can make it interesting and something more to do than just when it first comes out.

Do racing like in FFVII (without the cheating), control sprint ^^

Choco racing could be entertaining, It'd be nice be able to enter your chocobo in a tournament match against others, and have an option to pit it against just you and your friends.

Injuries on the field would be interesting, if they had obstacle courses , or objects the choco needs to know to avoid or he could get hurt, causing you the race and having to tend to your chocobo further to get him back to the races.

Obviously for gambling it'd be nice to have it like the horse races, with odds for the race to pay outs.

Food for chocobo's would be great, if you can have your rider feed the chocobo certain foods to enhance speed, durability or his traction or something.

More than a simple race would be nice, having slalom races, straight speed races, team races with your friends to build up a team to go into tournaments. Whatever the race is where you have to pass off that stick and so forth, have that for chocos. Hurdles. This way when you raise your chocobo you have to think about which type of race you want to try to make your choco for. Hurdles? Speed? Slaloms? Endurance? Making it more complex could make it more fun than, raise your chocobo, make him raise fast to win.... Whoopie, that'll only get old after doing 10 races.

I dont think the big thing should be the racing, it should be the raising and care.

I guess NPC jockeys should ride them or something, and you´ll be like the manager.

And a betting system =)

Well as someone else mentioned in a diff. thread on this topic, if a human rides them it can never be fair since lag would interfere with people, and of course some people (whoever could I mean) might speed hack, of course you'll be banned in a matter of seconds, but it should would be an amusing few seconds of winning!

I am actually curious to see how the RMT will take over choco racing for profit.