Fat Moogle Mount on Mogstation!

[Skivvy]

Funny you mention that. There is an all-you-can-eat pizzeria buffet in my town that offers desserts and coffee for an extra fee. I've never seen anyone complaining that they can't afford it and that therefore the pizzeria should not offer desserts for any other customer either.

I'm really not defending the restaurant analogy. My original reply, which you quoted, was to give a slightly more accurate example instead of the poor example that was provided by the previous poster. MMOs are not a restaurant. They are also not a theater. They are their own beast, and this company in the past has managed to make an MMO that included all items in your sub (not including expansions / promotions as those are obviously different as well).

I get that times change. Perhaps this is the new way for subscription games, but I can still have the opinion that it is completely wrong.

[Rhodkr]

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Another metaphor would be buying a book for $14.99 you finish reading that book only to reach the end and learn that there's an Epilogue available for an additional $30. You don't need the Epilogue, you have the whole main story right there, but then you get to wondering. 'What the heck is in that Epilogue that makes it worth twice the cost of the actual book?!' Some people just cave in and buy it.

Honestly, I probably would have bought the thing myself, if it wasn't for the $30 price tag. (I haven't bought a single mount yet, but that one speaks to my sense of humor and thus draws me unlike the other mounts.) It is sad though, to date, Thornemarch is the only extreme trial without a mount. Such a missed opportunity.