Sleipnir on SALE!!

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Originally Posted by Xieveral

The dye sale seems kind of pointlesss since the general-purpose ones exist. Why even offer them now?

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Because either you don't want to pay for overinflated prices of the dyes on the market board or your retainer's RNG isn't good enough to bring the dyes back to you or enough of them.

How dare S-E tempt me by offering a sale on my brand when I am at my weakest.

http://i.imgur.com/CPbAPbX.png

One cannot tell from this image but there is massive fuming going on. MASSIVE

Now that more people are going to have this: petition to add a mount emote. I say either 1) option to unsheathe a weapon while riding the mount, or 2) Sleipnir rearing back.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Because either you don't want to pay for overinflated prices of the dyes on the market board or your retainer's RNG isn't good enough to bring the dyes back to you or enough of them.

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so it's better to pay over priced real money for a dyes (really$1 for just one?) then paying with ingame gill for them? besides its obviously a server based price range, mine for example most dyes don't really go that high.

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...85695b07620553

Slepnir Mount is now on sale in the Mogstation. Price has gone from;

16.80 Euro to 9.99 Euro ($25.60 AUD to $15.20 AUD) or
$24.00 USD to $13.99 USD

which is around 40% off. A number of other dye packs are also on sale.

I wonder if this might be a trend and that other bought mounts might go on sale in the future after the rush for them has died down.

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Wooooo! Now if only the game wasn't dead-boring and/or dead due to horribad patches, that might actually interest me!

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Originally Posted by Roegadyn_Bear

Indeed.

I get that opinions on the cash shop vary by the individual, but I find it amusing that some people believe that some of the things exclusive to the cash shop would have been put in the game otherwise.

Time to go grab the marshmallows as people bicker over what it should be worth and how the cash shop should be destroyed because their subscription dollars should be the only way Square-Enix rakes in a profit.

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I got into this precise argument elsewhere. The Primal ponies are all basic palette swaps, whereas Sleipnir is a unique design. The only reason they made him was to promote the Cash Shop. Without it, it's far more likely Sleipnir just wouldn't exist as a mount. I certainly won't say I love the Cash Shop, however it's not doing any harm. Nothing has been cut from the game nor have they even utilized it much. If you dislike it, fine. Just accept not everyone does. We don't need you to jump into every thread it gets brought up and whine about how unfair the prices are.

*You being used as a generalization.

bad mount, Odin's horse has 8 legs not 4-.-

If you purchase items from the cash shop you're part if the problem.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

I got into this precise argument elsewhere. The Primal ponies are all basic palette swaps, whereas Sleipnir is a unique design. The only reason they made him was to promote the Cash Shop. Without it, it's far more likely Sleipnir just wouldn't exist as a mount. I certainly won't say I love the Cash Shop, however it's not doing any harm. Nothing has been cut from the game nor have they even utilized it much. If you dislike it, fine. Just accept not everyone does. We don't need you to jump into every thread it gets brought up and whine about how unfair the prices are.

*You being used as a generalization.

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They didn't make him for the cash shop, it was already in the game.

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Originally Posted by Darkthrone

If you purchase items from the cash shop you're part if the problem.

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Then color me proud!

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Originally Posted by Moqi

They didn't make him for the cash shop, it was already in the game.

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Proof? Your assumptions don't count.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Proof? Your assumptions don't count.

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I what they're getting at is that the modeled/rigged/animated asset for Sleipnir was already created for the game as Odin was riding it in the black shroud at launch which was long before it was added as a standalone mount to the cash shop.

This means that other than flagging it as a player mount it was already created and existed on it's own and that somewhere down the development pipeline they willingly made the decision on whether or not to release it by itself and how they would go about doing it, in fact they didn't even have to go through extra work to adjust it for player characters because Odin already takes on the appearance of the player who kills him meaning Sleipnir was modeled / scaled for all races to ride him.

They chose the cash shop as the means to release it as opposed to other methods they could have taken (like the Odin trial).

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Originally Posted by Ryel

I what they're getting at is that the modeled/rigged/animated asset for Sleipnir was already created for the game as Odin was riding it in the black shroud at launch which was long before it was added as a standalone mount to the cash shop.

This means that other than flagging it as a player mount it was already created and existed on it's own and that somewhere down the development pipeline they willingly made the decision on whether or not to release it by itself and how they would go about doing it, in fact they didn't even have to go through extra work to adjust it for player characters because Odin already takes on the appearance of the player who kills him meaning Sleipnir was modeled / scaled for all races to ride him.

They chose the cash shop as the means to release it as opposed to other methods they could have taken (like the Odin trial).

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Those adjustments require far more work than you're giving credit to. It's not simply scaling down Sleipnir and voila, mount. Odin's animations lack the same nuance player characters do, not to mention they have to account for the multitude of inputs we can make.

Unlikely. A far more probable scenario is they only considered Sleipnir as a mount to promote the Cash Shop, and that it never would have come up otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Those adjustments require far more work than you're giving credit to. It's not simply scaling down Sleipnir and voila, mount. Odin's animations lack the same nuance player characters do, not to mention they have to account for the multitude of inputs we can make.

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This.. isn't necessarily true actually.

Assuming the model for Sleipnir was already created / rigged for animation and had existing animations (it did) it really isn't that hard to convert it into a player mount (from an animation, not coding perspective) given the tools (the ones already existing in house) it probably would take all of an afternoon really, if that.

I mentioned scaling etc because that work was already done for Odin, meaning the framework existed for player characters already including using player character replicas for Odin's model for the player that landed the killing blow.

Odin's range of animation isn't relevant to Sleipnir's in any way whatsoever, all that matters is Sleipnir's range of animation which is really no different between a players and Odin's when concerning the default walk animation and running animations, the animations unique to the Odin FATE / trial obviously aren't being used by the players so they're simply omitted.

Additionally a player riding Sleipnir isn't using any particularly extreme animations when compared to other horse type mounts (like the unicorn that existed prior) as it just consists of folded arms while walking and a bent over posture when running, which is once again maybe a few hours worth of effort concerning the animations that have been reused and recycled for other mounts.

So no, I'm not downplaying it considering I've had to do similar animations myself.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Unlikely. A far more probable scenario is they only considered Sleipnir as a mount to promote the Cash Shop, and that it never would have come up otherwise.

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This is more likely, i would be willing to bet they only considered releasing it as a mount to promote the cash shop, however this doesn't mean that they made it specifically for the cash shop as the majority of the work involved was already done and the asset was pretty much just sitting there.

It's like "Hey look, easy money!"

It'd be like saying the Magitek recolors were made for the cash shop when they're obvious palette swaps of an existing mount.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Those adjustments require far more work than you're giving credit to.

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Yeah, I've seen how copy and paste is regarded as incredibly hard work that pushed the devs to the brink of exhaustion, who needed a 2 months delay and a vacation to come up with... Atmas, again.

Draft Chocobo > All other mounts. You'll not tempt me with your still wildly overpriced mount SE!

Psss! im never falling for that!..a mount that can't fly for $14?! yeah no thank you, go trick someone else SE ...I mean it is ridiculous how th..
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I just bought it...

so people that paid 15 to buy it got it on one character but people that getting it with 9.99 getting it account wide also? Dont you think this should granted to everyone that bought it at least ?

It is a shame that they do this sales crap. Making me even more upset that I spent that much on a mount, never again...never again.

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Originally Posted by Wlt

so people that paid 15 to buy it got it on one character but people that getting it with 9.99 getting it account wide also? Dont you think this should granted to everyone that bought it at least ?

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As far as I'm aware it's always been account wide.

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Originally Posted by Sakuraluna

As far as I'm aware it's always been account wide.

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Nope when it first came out it was single character only.