Regarding: Centurio Tiger mount

[Magic-Mal]

Why not? Sounds like quite the achievement to me.

Same reason why only having 1% of the population being able to beat raids wasn't cool with the Devs. So they did the smart thing and made it easier. Look how successful it was.

[Vexander]

I'm certainly not against SE rewarding long term hunt players, or any long-term players at all. However, the rewards should not be something that a large chunk of the playerbase is going to want, and which will ostracize new players. If the reward is so highly desired and has criteria to obtain that would require literally over a year of focusing playing, then it should be account-wide at the least, and mounts are not.

If they'd made the Centurio Mount a copy of the new primal mounts, or the old primal mounts, that'd have been fine. But people have wanted a tiger mount since the model first made its appearance. Either they should add another tiger mount and make it obtainable (maybe a white tiger) through a raid or gold saucer or even just the Mog Station, or they should reduce the requirements for the existing achievement by a massive amount. 100 S ranks and A ranks is already a lot for brand new characters/players, but certainly more realistic.

[Stormfur]

I think it should be purchasable with Centurio seals. This way we can work on it independently AND with a group if we desire. Tying it to hunts is just encouraging people to go out, kill an S rank as quick as they can and vanish - as in "haha, I got mine! Sorry suckers!"

[SokiYagami]

I'm probably going to be burnt for suggesting this, but how about adding it as a secondary source of reward for getting all 3 SB tank mounts? That's 900 tank runs, so it's going to:

1. Take some time and effort
2. Helps out with queue time
3. Wide verity of options to grind for mount
4. Tiger also fits with the beast theme for tanks mounts

..or just lower the requirement to 2K A ranks and 1K S ranks as suggested by couple other players. I'm going to take my leave before those exclusive snowflakes come after me with their pitchforks.

...what if this is a *cough* F2P *cough* marketing tactic to make it nearly impossible to obtain via the average working players so people will flock to a re-color version on kupo store in the future?

[Texa]

Around two-dozen people already have it so I don't think SE will step back on the requirements. The can up the spawn rate for S ranks though, which would help keep old zones active too. But whether they actually will or not remains to be seen.

[Keridwyn]

Firstly, I'm all for things that you have to work and strive to obtain. I don't mind there being achievements and rewards that will be difficult for me personally because they're either A) not my thing or B) slightly out of my skill range. I don't mind grinding to get something I want. However, there is a point where expectations become unreasonable.

From the math in this thread and others people are pointing out that you need about two years of ideal conditions to get your hands on this mount. Considering all the factors involved (such as early pulling, nobody answering the relay when one does spawn, nobody attempting to spawn them, nobody announcing a spawn) plus the fact that not everyone can be online for every window and every pull...you're looking at closer to four years. That's not exclusivity, that's someone failing to do the actual math on their own achievement.

There are solutions though. As some folks have pointed out cutting the requirements in half still makes the achievement tough but doable if you really buckle down. Certainly something you can achieve without worrying if the game is even going to be around long enough. Or, if you really want to still keep it up there, you could always sell items that force hunts to spawn for centrino seals. Let people grind away and save up, make the items expensive enough to require some effort but not insanely prohibitive.

Either way, this hasn't put me off hunts. I know with every expansion released there will be more S Ranks, more A Ranks, more windows and opportunities. Some days I'll get in with a group and get some good grinding in for a couple of hours. Some days I'll get nothing. I don't anticipate ever personally obtaining the mount as things stand now and I'm okay with that. A little sad but not nearly enough to say that the achievement shouldn't exist at all or that it should be something anyone can put zero effort into. It just shouldn't be something that people feel they can't do because they started playing 'too late' into the game's life cycle.

[KageTokage]

About nine months of gameplay later, I've hit 500 S ranks mark (I only started going after S ranks hardcore about five months in, too).

At this rate, I might be able to get it before the next expansion, since I'm present for probably close to 90% of the S rank kills on the server due to me and only a handful of others bothering to spawn the things.

It still seems a little absurd, in any case.

[Coatl]

holy crap I saw this in the trailer and then completely forgot about it. Can someone make a reddit post?

[SuperZay]

I was for lowering requirements at first, but as I approach 1500 S ranks I'd prefer the mount to remain rare and standout from a crowd of Ixions and Kamuys. Nothning worse than to be like everyone else and to have all that everyone has.

[Feldt]

I will add my 3 cents. I cannot sub every month to the game, I've been hunting since hunts came out and i think that was in 2014 if i recall correctly. Since then I have been on 99% hunts when i was subbed. My current stats are A: 232 slain & S: 76 slain. This ridiculous requirement while taking into consideration the amount of time i can sub (which will not change - it cannot change) will take me MINIMUM 10+ years to complete, to "farm/get" that mount. The game will be dead sooner than I will be able to reach that achievement mark looking at how it took me 3! ! years to kill 76 S, not to mention those A as well which need hefty number as well. From my point of view, I'm never gonna be able to get that mount no matter how much I want it until something will be done about it.