Fat Moogle Mount on Mogstation!

[Jynx]

Mount looks to be of good quality (time spent on it), but just like the EB one, not my cup of tea in design.

You mean the retextured flying fat chocobo with bomb palanquin chains(also retextured)? or the (Allready ingame) Odin mount?

Sure they really broke their backs on those...

On the upside we know they aren't wasting too many resources on these things using existing assets and just morphing them into ungodly apperations looking at you PLD War"Lion" mount.

[hagare]

There is a big difference, to me personally, in paying for pointless fodder (aka an outfit, dye or glamour mount) vs. paying for an in-game advantage (aka paying for stats or instant leveling).

well.... WoW used to only have cosmetics before.
Take a look at it now. Insta 90 whoooo

[Welsper59]

You mean the retextured flying fat chocobo with bomb palanquin chains(also retextured)? or the (Allready ingame) Odin mount?

Sure they really broke their backs on those...

On the upside we know they aren't wasting too many resources on these things using existing assets and just morphing them into ungodly apperations looking at you PLD War"Lion" mount.

Your hate is by comparison of what? There's only a few "unique" mounts in this game, and even then, the assets already exist (like the Gobwalker) or are reused over and over (like the primal mounts). When you compare it to what's available now, it's fairly up there in quality. I'm assuming the mogs on the side do something as well. Something tells me you're just needlessly spiteful.

well.... WoW used to only have cosmetics before.
Take a look at it now. Insta 90 whoooo

There's actually an instant 100 now, in prep for Legion I guess. Not really a big deal though for that game.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I'm assuming the mogs on the side do something as well.

The mount has a mount action like Twintania/Magitek, the moogles on the side do a little dance and fly around the bench. It's quite cute, honestly.

[ErryK]

You mean the retextured flying fat chocobo with bomb palanquin chains(also retextured)? or the (Allready ingame) Odin mount?

Sure they really broke their backs on those...

Oh, I didn't know you worked at Square Enix, care to tell me what they have planned for 3.4 and 3.5, 4.0 as well if you can spare the time. Thank you!

[hagare]

There's actually an instant 100 now, in prep for Legion I guess. Not really a big deal though for that game.

see, as long as that mindset exists then the trend will continue.
Soon enough FF14 will have the same deal and you'll throw out any reasoning to justify it.
Might as well use this too when it finally happens: "Not really a big deal though for this game."

[Welsper59]

see, as long as that mindset exists then the trend will continue.
Soon enough FF14 will have the same deal and you'll throw out any reasoning to justify it.
Might as well use this too when it finally happens: "Not really a big deal though for this game."

Just to emphasize why I said it's not a big deal. I recently subbed again. I went from 90-100 in 3 or 4 hours with upgraded heirlooms (which means around 5 or so hours without). Going from 1-90 takes about that same span of time as well. So uhmm... what part of that makes the instant 100 a big deal? With a game that you can just solo quest all the way to max level.

As for this game, do you really think the leveling process is mandatory at this point? At least for people who already leveled to max on one job, that is. You don't really learn a whole lot while you level, and if you have the drive to learn, you'd do it anyway regardless of taking the slow approach or jumping ahead. Do we magically not have bad players now or something? Those guys were forced to group up too to get to the HW areas. While I don't really see a point to having the instant boost option here, I'm not so ignorant as to just automatically state it'll be the destruction of the game, which is exactly what it seems you're implying. Correct me if I'm wrong about that. We are talking about a game that lets you level up solo, aren't we? One that even in groups, lets you be carried too. Maybe if this game were very strict about its leveling process, the argument against an instant boost would have significant merit, but where we are now... it's just pointless defense.

[ErryK]

see, as long as that mindset exists then the trend will continue.
Soon enough FF14 will have the same deal and you'll throw out any reasoning to justify it.
Might as well use this too when it finally happens: "Not really a big deal though for this game."

I don't think so. We already have so much in the game that provides an EXP boost (Rested EXP, buff food, FC Actions, as well as bonuses to first-timers), so why, even though we have all these avenues for EXP, does this apparent 'mindset' warrant an EXP pot?

[Jynx]

Oh sorry I didn't know you are unable to notice the re textures.

Hell even the side moogles are existing assets none of it is new it's all re purposed artwork, well besides the actual re texturing of the model skeletons for the main mount. I'm not saying it took no work I'm just pointing out it's evident where the corners were cut on a premium $30.00 product that costs more than the game itself <_<.

[ErryK]

Oh sorry I didn't know you are unable to notice the re textures.

Hell even the side moogles are existing assets none of it is new it's all re purposed artwork, well besides the actual re texturing of the model skeletons for the main mount. I'm not saying it took no work I'm just pointing out it's evident where the corners were cut on a premium $30.00 product that costs more than the game itself <_<.

A premium product no one is being forced to buy. That is in the game for looks. That isn't pay to win.