Carbuncle mounts have arrived!

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There is still a difference between a short quest and an horrible grind. Make it something that might take a bit of a dedictation (something like one relic step or the whole weapon) and you will have people that might like to buy it but also people that are willing to grind for it without it being horrible or taking years to finish.

Also you could simply give us one color ingame and the other in the cash shop. Those that dont care about collection all mounts will be happy for that one one mount and the others that want a whole collection or just a different color can buy it. This way they will still earn money but give people the chance to own it ingame. Just like they did in the past with the birds and the magitek mounts.

To be fair, most of the relic steps are a horrible grind. We've had FATEs will abysmally low drop rates, Books that required doing specific content, light farming which essentially resulted in spamming Garuda or A1S for several hours and etc. Bear in mind, I'm not advocating this be the alternative. I'm merely saying if they ever did make cash shop exclusives obtainable in-game, it will almost certainly be locked behind an arduous grind. They want our money and aren't going to make an alternative method of getting these $24 mounts easy, otherwise most people aren't going to buy them. The majority of cash shop mounts are either re-skins or old event rewards. Only three are truly exclusive. Releasing one for "free" and only putting palette swaps on the Mogstation won't net them a fraction of what they have likely made now. At the end of the day, that is their concern.

If I were to offer my own alternative. I'd say use the achievement certificate system. Such and such points allows you to purchase certain things from the Mogstation. Granted, I have little doubt the amount required would be... high, but it's still an option.