Well, this article is about a year old - would be interesting to know if their opinion has changed since posting this 
Mounts. He told you right there in post 
If their stance hasn’t changed then why would they say anything beyond what they already have?
I was thinking more along the lines of an updated statement on this to address the multitude of players who have also raised concerns about the amount of walking involved in this game. Surely, they may not deem the world large enough for mounts, but if the world is large enough to have fast-traveling be a thing - why not just introduce mounts? I’m not an incredibly experienced MMO player, so maybe there’s something to that equation I still don’t get, but this is my train of thought at least.
The world has been shrunk significantly by the ease of fast travel, mounts would serve to shrink it further. Additionally, there’s more to it like how they decide to handle flagged players and mounts for example.
I don’t think the people complaining about walking are a good enough justification for making the map even smaller. My opinion, of course, and others disagree.
Mounts are WAY down the list of things I think they need to prioritize.
I do not know why you think mounts will never be a thing. Info about mounts was found in a new-ish datamine.
Here is a link to a youtube video that talks about many things including mounts:
New World CONTENT LEAK, new zone, MOUNTS INCOMING???
Of course since it is a datamine there is no telling when/if the things in the video will actually show up.
But this is the most interesting thing ( from about 9 minutes in the video )

Yes it will, they said it clearly. Stop saying shit.
no they said that mounts would not be in new world
all ya’ll are just mad, that’s why you flagged my reply. You aren’t getting mounts
New World well known interview.
From Scot Lane (Game Director himself, kid) :
“Scot Lane: I think right now our world isn’t of the size that warrants mounts. When we do get there with the live game, that’s gonna happen at some point, we’ll add mounts when we feel players will benefit from them and we can do them in a really cool way that works for us.”
So stop saying shit for first. Then YES, we WILL get mount and that’s it, “don’t be mad” kid.
Stop crying and left the game. Another toxic out of the game, perfect.
I’m just gonna let your thread get pushed down cause it’s irrelevant
The only irrelevant things here are your answers.
You’re just mad about being wrong. u_u’
Oh and it’s not my thread and with your answer you’re doing the opposite than letting get pushed down. :]
I would like to have mounts but this team is no where near where they would be to implement then in a seemless fashion
I am hoping we get 6 months of content fixing before we see a dlc would include mounts and whatnot
Scott Lane was smart enough to know that his dev team was nowhere near ready to implement donkeys let alone mounts the too small comment is rhetoric and malarkey all you gotta do is run around the world to see that.
The keywords In The statement is put them in the way they want them.
In that scenario it is better to wait .
Mounts?
Yes, mounts will come.
And they will come sooner than later because they can make a lot of money with mounts from the cash shop.
I never said mounts are the priority.
The game was released way too early, anyone who played to this game know it.
Fixes before content is the number one rule, obviously.
It doesn’t mean we can’t talk about such things.^^
I wish trading post was a thing
Most under rated comment of the day lol