You are not entitled to the Twintania mount.
If you want it, do what is required to get it.
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You want to buy the Twintania mount?
Here you go.
Step 1: Buy 3 FFXIV ARR games. (19.99 or wait for a sale of the game, GMG has a -23% off code going on right now which makes it $15.40)
Step 2: Register said games but dont subscribe (or put in ANY CC info)
Step 3: Send yourself 3 RAF codes.
Step 4: Register codes
Step 5: Activate the accounts (you get 1 month free before being charged)
Step 6: Check your ingame mail for feathers.
There you go. You just paid the $60 for the mount you said you'd be willing to pay or less depending on sales/codes/etc.
or you can actually recruit people to join the game...
[QUOTE=CoolMithra
Sure they can take advantage. They don't HAVE to use friends. They can get strangers to sign up and try the game on many forums. Like half of my FC has done this. People begging to buy the mount are just being lazy. This practice could easily lead into a pay to win system if SE decided to start allowing things to simply be bought on the store. What starts as a mount can and would lead to people begging for content gear next. This also diminishes the purpose of recruit-a-friend. No one would use the system if they could just drop 15-25$ on the mount and get it without waiting. Hardcore should always get the advantage - this is why when casual raids come out, they are never on par with true endgame content difficulty or ilvl drops.