Fat Moogle Mount on Mogstation!

[Zigabar]

This caught my attention... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Keep this kinda talk in the Quicksands where it belongs!

Too bad we're not on Balmung ;o

Every server has its Goldshire. You just have to look...

and then quietly laugh to yourself.

And then run for the hills!

Edit :: I've reached my daily!! So my last post today will be below. I hope Skivvy sees this! (I really wanted to answer it :< )

For those who are OK with our current cash shop - is it just that you've never experienced any alternative? As mentioned earlier, my first MMO was XI and I didn't know what cash shops were until I branched out to F2P games (yeaaaars down the road). I suppose if this is your first MMO, or you've only played newer games, you would know no better. This obviously won't be the case for everyone. Just a shower thought.

I've played all types of MMO's. P2P, B2P, F2P, P2W, Private Servers, with and without cash shops, etc. With FFXIV I have no problem with Mogstation as long as it stays vanity/non Pay to Win. Time's change and I've accepted that. I have a line I hope SE does not cross, and from what we've seen, they're still pretty far away from it.

[Nuna]

Trading the future of the game for a vanity item to brag about. Because they belive, the money the spend on the vanity item is somehow invested back into the game.

The only way this game will ever develop further is when subscriptions drop and people stop feeding SE money. As they are now, they have absolutely no incentive to keep developing the game, the player base is steady, the cash shop works wonder to get the company extra money and the subscription probably is funding other projects/meeting investers expectatives while the dev team is basically doing "what they can with what they have".

EXCEPT they just added 3 new mounts in the game, obtainable ONLY BY PLAYING THE GAME. This ONE cash shop mount doesn't say much.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Its not a mount or several mounts for that matter.

Is the very existence of the cash shop itself. People paying whatever they belive a mount is worth isn`t an issue. That there is a mount outside the game you can pay for is the issue.

Well, it exists, and will continue to exist, so the blaming of people who use it really needs to stop.

[Sakuraluna]

Yes the mentor one is 2 seater. If you invite friends to play they just have to pay for the sub, nothing extra. You get the mount as a reward for bringing more people into the game.

If the friend sticks around for at least that long or pays for that length of time up front. Many players either don't know anyone who would be interested in an mmo or are already playing with everyone they know who would be interested. That's why we have a sticky thread around here specifically for swapping friend recruit codes, and even then that's still going to be a gamble depending on how long a stranger stays subscribed. Many have gone as far as to buy a second copy of the game + sub time when it was first implemented just to get the mount.

Anyhow, I tend to agree with this person on the subject;

paying is paying, there's no "just" there's only "how much".

Wow this thread moves fast. XD

[Noshpan]

I must be the only person who finds this mount to be ugly. I'm not going to buy it (in fact, the only thing that I've purchased from the Mog Station was a name change and a fantasia potion).

But it's okay. I'm not going to deride anyone who likes the mount and have got it, or are going to get it. Enjoy your mount. Be happy with it. That's all that matters.

[Chalbee]

Trading the future of the game for a vanity item to brag about. Because they belive, the money the spend on the vanity item is somehow invested back into the game.

THE CASH SHOP POISONED OUR WATER SUPPLY, BURNED OUR CROPS, AND DELIVERED A PLAGUE UNTO OUR HOUSES!!!

[JustPlainLucas]

I refuse to spend money on mounts (or anything cosmetic for that matter) when I already subscribe to the game. Free to pay, maybe if I got a bonus on my paycheck, but man... every time I see someone flying around with a paid mount, I'm like, "You know, we used to win stuff like that from actually playing the game...".

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Well, it exists, and will continue to exist, so the blaming of people who use it really needs to stop.

No, it has to be encouraged so people stops this problem. Only reason this cash shop exist its cause it was asked for in the first place.

Not to mention, it reduces the value of the paid subscription, you are getting less, even if its just a mount, content for your monthly fee than before. Not to mention this will continue, and with each "success" this cash shop has, less are we getting into the game itself.

THE CASH SHOP POISONED OUR WATER SUPPLY, BURNED OUR CROPS, AND DELIVERED A PLAGUE UNTO OUR HOUSES!!!

No, is just ruining the game.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Be prepared to re-live this ridiculous thread a second time when they release the red Fenrir.

[Remus]

Be prepared to re-live this ridiculous thread a second time when they release the red Fenrir.

Clearly they were suppose to release at the same time but SE wanted to see if the moogle would sell at $30 first if it sells then the fenrir will go for $30 or it doesn't sell and they go back to a fair price :P