Quote Originally Posted by LunarEmerald View Post
They should stick it in the cash shop. I'd be fine with paying $24 for it, just like sleipnir. Leave the friend recruit option in. A way people can earn it for free but those that don't have any friends to convince, can still get it.
Gamers tend to go for the path of least resistance, meaning most would just buy the mount from the store rather than go through the trouble of recruiting a friend into the game (particularly one that is going to continue subscribing). I suspect in the long run that would mean less money for SE.

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As for this thread, the real problem is everyone wants in on an item that happens to be a reward for a very specific purpose: recruiting friends to play the game.

I brought a friend in to play FFXIV with me via this campaign. 8 months later we're still playing it together every day, with no plans on that changing anytime soon. It's that simple a process.

Yes, if you're trying to work the system specifically to get "reward stuff" (by buying multiple copies/subs or throwing codes out to random strangers and hoping to score a long-term player) it's going to be annoyingly frustrating - mainly because it wasn't meant to be done that way.

I get it.. some people had all their friends join prior to this campaign's introduction and now have no one left to bring in. But whether it's game-stuff or real-life stuff, there are going to be plenty of times where we all miss out on a special offer because the timing just happened to be off. It happens, yet somehow the world keeps on spinning.

Personally, I'm just happy that SE is being nice enough to continue to reward participants of the Recruit a Friends campaign regardless of when their participation began (rather than limiting this to only new recruited friends going forward). And while I understand the notion of wanting credit for friends invited prior to the introduction of this campaign, we both know there is zero way for them to truly know who was brought in by whom without those recruitment codes. It is what it is.