Why must we wait 6 months to buy the Extreme mounts with Totems?

It's absolutely ridiculous.

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Agreed… a lucky roll gets them immediately but if you grind out 100 clears you have to wait. It’s not like they’re not already in the game! I put in the work, now give me my wings!

Is rather pointless, because we all know they will make them buyable with 99 totems due to the formula, so many of us stop at 99 anyway.

A flawed assumption that people will populate the instances if you can't just buy the mounts and stop running the content, but as Jeeqbit said, most people stop at 99 totems and still stop running the content, so.

Someone in another thread equated to getting 99 totems as "instant gratification" and I still think that's very silly. The people who get 99 totems are keepnig the content alive and occupying more Party Finders than the people who get their wings and stop running it altogether. I think the players who stayed the longest and reached the cap should be rewarded for their efforts in helping other people get their mounts.

I may be a rare case, but to me it is not about HAVING the mount but GETTING it. So, once I have the mount, it is no more interesting.
As long as I have it in my mind "I have a chance to get the mount!" and the battle is a good design since 7.0 release, I truly enjoy it....
In case of Zoraal-Ja, I was happy I got the mount after 15x, I disliked the fight, somehow it was too hard for my slow brain... However,
Right now I am doing Queen and have 80 tokens, soon I have enough to get 99x to exchange in a year. But it is okay to me. I love doing it.
In meanwhile I am more motivated to get the crafting materials, weapon boxes, just to see my "RNG!!" game I play with my friend.
Sometimes it feels "Oh, I will be able to exchange it!" And then realise it is half a year later, by the time I am able to exchange, I forgot.
This is what drove me to no longer feel the need to "HAVE" it, more so, I drive my desire by "am I lucky today!? Let's give it a try!" feeling.

Just make us able to buy them once we got enough totems for it, everything else is silly.

And Yoshi P and Company should be able to grasp that too :o

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Originally Posted by SeriousPan

Someone in another thread equated to getting 99 totems as "instant gratification" and I still think that's very silly. The people who get 99 totems are keepnig the content alive and occupying more Party Finders than the people who get their wings and stop running it altogether. I think the players who stayed the longest and reached the cap should be rewarded for their efforts in helping other people get their mounts.

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I agree. Also calling running an EX trial 99 times "instant gratification" is absolutely nonsensical. On the contrary, that's endurance.

Because we dont deserve em. Face it, we either grind our souls out a 1000 times if needed or wait.

To me every mount i had to buy feels tainted... its just not the same.

It's beyond stupid that they thought this was acceptable.

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Originally Posted by glitteringcosmos

A flawed assumption that people will populate the instances if you can't just buy the mounts and stop running the content, but as Jeeqbit said, most people stop at 99 totems and still stop running the content, so.

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And some people like myself don't run the content when it's fresh at all because by the time the mount can finally be bought it's already irrelevant and it's better to just wait for drop rate buffs or unsync to farm it.

The mounts should never have been made purchasable with totems to start with.

Can we stop pretending that a lot of systems in this game weren't designed to waste your time just to make sure you stay subbed? Square Enix isn't going to change the formula neither will they change their "Kill/Gather 1000 things in Y / Z" achievements.
This game doesn't respect your time.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Is rather pointless, because we all know they will make them buyable with 99 totems due to the formula, so many of us stop at 99 anyway.

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But a lot of people won't. So it isn't pointless when those are the people they're targeting since they know everyone else will wait anyway. The idea is they want the good players to keep farming beyond 99 totems, thus helping the less experienced players. If it was available from the start, everyone would just farm 99/50 kills and never touch the fight again.

Put simply, they're playing into FOMO without it actually being FOMO

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Originally Posted by Yukimin

Can we stop pretending that a lot of systems in this game weren't designed to waste your time just to make sure you stay subbed? Square Enix isn't going to change the formula neither will they change their "Kill/Gather 1000 things in Y / Z" achievements.
This game doesn't respect your time.

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It's funny to me how a lot more people are starting to notice this now the patch cycles have become longer when it's always been the case. The whole "take breaks!" and "XIV respects your time!" was always PR nonsense.

To drag out your sub time or convince you to resub in six months if you quit. Same as all the other arbitrarily dragged out stuff in this game.

they should make it buyable at release

and after six months the cost should go down to 50 totems

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Originally Posted by Collin_Sky

It's absolutely ridiculous.

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its actually 8 to 9 months - 2 patch cycles

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

its actually 8 to 9 months - 2 patch cycles

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Oh just like pregnancy, exciting.

Jokes aside, I personally wouldn't mind the mounts cost more totems if it meant I can just buy it immediately if their concern is that the content will die quickly?