Mounts 
I love Mounts
They are a great thing. Mounts did not originate in WoW. Mounts have been in every rpg game since the nintendo 64 days, and even before that in the most common games such as zelda. To say “dont add mounts, this is not wow, stop trying to make it wow,” is a completely ignorant statement that has no logic/fact. Once again all you WoW nubs out there who are currently playing aion, wow did not invent mounts. Most people who reply with this silly statement are currently still paying their wow subscriptions. But to get back on point, Mounts are a must in any successful game.
Originally, I agreed that mounts where not needed due to wings. And when I say originally I mean in 2008, when I was digging up info for aion. When I jumped on the chineese beta, I found out quite quickly that mounts are a must, as all other games. You have a minute on your wings, up to lvl 30, where, if you have them, can equip a new pair that everyone received, via upgrade, which is no longer available, / pre-order. So for anyone who does not have lvl 30 wings, nor 40 wings, me, it is quite hard to even “fly,” as it was hyped up to be.
Now of course, I understand that they cannot let us perma fly but I’m just stating the facts. But, to go even further, and limit the fly capabilities to nearly nothing is just gone to far. For instance, I take off from eltnen, I cannot fly anywhere. If I want to go search for rifts its very difficult because of the massive ammounts of land you must WALK over, with an occasional use of the pathetic glide button. Other then that, you cannot fly anywhere. This goes for all of the cities. With that, I still walk around the desert in eltnen looking for rift locations slowly but surely, however annoying it is. Yes, for all the trolls who will spam “teleporter noob!”
Once you arrive at your teleporter location, which only goes in 2 areas, one going north one going south, the rest of the map is still all foot work, and as I said an occasional 10 second glide if your on high-ground, and do not hit a little hill during glide. If you actually think about how our wings work, it is very easy to confirm the decision to add mounts. It is just obvious common sense. There is only 2 ways to solve this problem. A: Increase flight path area. B: Make glide, glide as it does in the videos. And, my option C: add mounts like every other successful video game created on the plantet.
AION mounts
