Carbuncle mounts have arrived!

[Ayer2015]

The cash shop is here to stay people, like it or not. I, and clearly many others, have and continue to purchase content from it.

[ErryK]

Oh, thought I'd have to run to the market again when I just came back but there's plenty of salt here!

Pretty disappointed with the decision to put these in mogstation. People are starved for content rn and SE goes and puts this stuff on mogstation lmao

So it being locked behind, say, a level of content such as Ultimate is okay even though a handful of people might get it? Also, who's starved? PF is full of peeps on Chaos.

Congratulations on wasting your money. I hope you found entering your credit card information real challanging. Bet you really feel accomplished right now.

I actually use PayPal One Touch so I didn't have to put my credit card info in~

Like how the mount looks, but it looks silly on races that are taller then Lalafell.

I think it actually looks the best on larger races, it's so cute.

[Hausti]

I much rather they be in the cash shop instead of being locked behind a Feast season, 3000 S Ranks, or 2000 Mentor Roulettes.

This. So much this XD

[Laerune]

I think it actually looks the best on larger races, it's so cute.

But you are going to crush the poor carbuncle, please do not mount it.

[BluexBird]

I much rather they be in the cash shop instead of being locked behind a Feast season, 3000 S Ranks, or 2000 Mentor Roulettes.

Question: if they had ALSO made it so that you could get it after 3000 S Ranks, would the fact that it is now purchaseable via the Mogstation make it P2W? xD

[HyoMinPark]

Dear SE, I hate you.

I had one last bit of hope that you would be sensitive enough to finally give us such unique mounts ingame but yet we will just get re-colors for the next primal and maybe instead of a couch we will get a desk as a mount..

They actually did give us some “unique mounts” in-game: Magitek Predator, the Rival Wings mount, the Christmas Bear... the first may be a reskin of a mob/mob-turned-mount, but the Christmas Bear is actually a brand new model—it is not the same as the WAR tank mounts.

Also that much money for such a short emote...I just cant..

I can agree that the emote is not worth $7. There are certainly some items on there that are overpriced—I can agree with that. But what I do is either decide if my want is worth the cost, or just wait until a sale rolls around.

The only emotes I can argue are worth the price are the Eastern Dance and the Play Dead emote—the former because it’s so elaborate and is persistent, and the latter because it is different across each race (and gender).

[Laerune]

Question: if they had ALSO made it so that you could get it after 3000 S Ranks, would the fact that it is now purchaseable via the Mogstation make it P2W? xD

Not P2W, since the mount is not giving the player any advantage, but it would be pay to progress (goal to obtain the mount), now if instead of the mount it was a item for crafting. An example, the item is sold via Mog Station or via long ingame grind and this item is needed to craft epic weapon, then it would be P2W.

Pay to progress is on itself is not that bad, but only if the option to get the item ingame is not locked behind a horrible grindfest. The thing is companies tend to make the grind so bad, that players are incentivized (forced) to take the easy way and pay with their wallet.

[Voross]

One mount should've been in the game while the other is in the mogstation. Could've been a new reward from airship ventures and tradeable to make them useful again. I don't really care about those mounts and I'm not gonna buy them but SE adding all these things straight to the MS while there's currently barely anything to do ingame leaves a bad taste in my mouth, should've waited until 4.2 before releasing this stuff imho.

[LeeraSorlan]

They actually did give us some “unique mounts” in-game: Magitek Predator, the Rival Wings mount, the Christmas Bear... the first may be a reskin of a mob/mob-turned-mount, but the Christmas Bear is actually a brand new model—it is not the same as the WAR tank mounts.



I can agree that the emote is not worth $7. There are certainly some items on there that are overpriced—I can agree with that. But what I do is either decide if my want is worth the cost, or just wait until a sale rolls around.

ehh bear animation is the same between the war and the event one, so can be argued a bit there, but it does come with a special, so meh..adding to this point, even the reskin was a new mount at one point, the bird, while reskinned, was a new modeled mount when the first came out, same for a dog, a horse, etc.a broom, a rocket motor thingy..a dragon...

We have gotten dozens of unique mounts, they even gave us a recolor of a mount they put on the mogstation, so it felt like we had the option of choosing (bennu vs Zu) the amount of mounts on the mogstation are actually suprisingly low, i figured theyd have went way out of hand at this point, but meh.


ithat being said....my only gripe is the reskin for the same price...i bought the carbuncle, so heh, guess im part of the problem...but i wanted them both..however..im not going to pay 24$ more for what is essentially a dye. So im a bit bummed, a mount that is far to expensive as it is, even if i bought it..feels kind of cheap imo

[BluexBird]

I feel like the legendary weapons in Guild Wars 2 are like that. I have never seen anything so grindy in any of the MMOs I've played. That's why I was surprised when I saw how relatively easy it was to get my Anima done. But again, I wouldn't consider it as P2W either. As someone said in an earlier post, for something to be P2W, a competitive element had to exist. And there is no competitive element in this game.