You say 'troll' but then there's plenty of players out there who want something like this to happen.
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Sure why not? Charge USD200 per HW primal mount. You want instant mount? Pay a premium for it then.
Otherwise, suck it up and farm it like the rest of us.
Edit: Oh and probably make some sort of visual difference from dropped/farmed mounts so we know who the rich lazy buggers are =p
I really don't understand why so many people get upset at requests like this. I see no problems at all in at least adding the ARR primal mounts to the cash shop. They already have the Odin mount in there. Is adding a few more really that much of a stretch? And more income will always help the game.
Only because it's really easy to farm ARR primals now. Just go in with an undersized party. You don't even need all 8, and the drop rate is way better than HW primals.
Also, suggestions to cash shop anything that can be gotten in-game is almost always going to net you a negative response from the community. This proposal might be more receptive if said primal mounts were unobtainable by any means in-game anymore.
To any past, present and future cash shop requests:
NO
I'll give SE 30 dollars if theres a cash shop option to increase these kinds of threads.
ARR ponies are super easy to get now. Some primals you can go in with as little as 3 people and farm them (my FC and I have done both Ruda and Titan Ex with 2 tanks and a healer, and even just three tanks). I see tons of pony farms still to this day in PF. While I don't have issues with the Cash Shop selling glamour items or past event items that aren't obtainable in-game anymore, I take issue with this. Since I worked for my primal mounts (and some still took me forever to get just because of drop rates, even unsynced). The Odin mount can't be used as an example as it is not obtainable in any way in game. And never was, to my knowledge.
And while the drop rates for HW birds are still abysmal (in my experience...40+ runs of SophEx...only 2 lanner whistles...), the first three offer the totems trade-in. And eventually Seph, Nid, and Soph will be added to those. And who knows. For 4.0, they may even reduce the totems from 99 down to 50. ARR mounts never had the totem trade-in, and I believe their drop rates used to be just as bad. So people have more options already for the HW primal mounts.
Take literally everything out of the cash shop and make us earn them in game.