Yes, chocobos will be there. It may be further introduced toward a later time, but there will be something. Of course, chocobos are something for you to ride on, but any more than that? Yes, we are planning to introduce that later. Chocobos as mounts will be there.
The skill system is very unique. How quickly can players switch between the disciplines?
Aside from during a battle, you can switch any time you want. It is instant. There is no timer. However, if you just keep switching back and forth, you are low on everything. So if you want to be good at something to start with, you probably want to stick with one thing.
The skill bar on the UI only has so many slots, is that all a player can have at once, or are there multiple bars?
We have points that you will be using to set your abilities. They are slotted so that depending on your abilities, you will be consuming more points, so they will run out. In terms of number of abilities, it is 30 abilities at most.
We have had so many wonderful and memorable stories from the Final Fantasy series, including Maple Story Mesos. Will that be continued in Maple Story? Will the player continued to be involved heavily?
Not only that we will be introducing more gradual storylines, more involved, so yes plus more.