Carbuncle mounts have arrived!

[Alleo]

I'm disappointed. Not because they're available on the Mog Station but because I was hoping that they would be available in exchange for achievement certificates. It was implemented as a system and yet there is nothing new associated with it - so for anyone who already acquired the veteran rewards there's literally nothing for them to spend achievement certificates on.

I would have loved if they used the achievement certificates as a way to buy cash shop stuff instead of making them the necessary currency for old veteran reward items. This way people who dont want to do achievements can buy them and the rest can play the game and get them through that.

They're still making mounts available in-game. I'll start worrying when that is no longer the case. It's a common business tactic in the present day for MMO's to have optional items for sale regardless of the presence of a subscription fee. Is it ideal? Not necessarily - but then many people, if given the opportunity, would rather have everything for free. That Square Enix has multiple ways to acquire more money should not be a surprise to anybody.

And strangely most of the wanted mounts are stuck behind cash shop and most of them even look better. Look at the details of the mog mount or the carbuncles and then back to something like the flying couch. I am not saying that we dont get mounts but a lot of them are re-colors of one (like the primal mounts) existing mount. I mean I was positively surprised that we got that bear mount for christmas but I wished that we would have gotten at least one version of the carbuncles ingame and the other in the cash shop. I mean at least in the past we got the bird ingame and later with better music in the cash shop. Or the magitek mounts that are mostly just re-colors in the cash shop so unlike you want all mounts or just like the color better you dont need to buy it, because you already own a version of it. With Sleipnir, the mogry one and the carbuncles you cant get it ingame at all.

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Honestly in the end I am just tired of them saying that the cash shop finances itself and yet they feel the need to use such huge prices. Yoshida once said that putting the event stuff there was not for money making but for giving people the chance to own the items. But the prices are way too high, especially for the housing items. I mean they sell retainers, fantasia and the weddings through the cash shop. Those alone should earn the cash shop more than enough money to pay for it for years. Why not make those items way cheaper?