The whale mount is up on Mogstation

[Theodric]

It's very interesting. A lot of the people who complain about Mog Station mounts not being available in-game do not appear to be mount collectors to any significant degree if one takes a peek at their character's lodestone profile.

[ElazulHP]

A whale for whales! The meme writes itself xD

[ChewieFlakes]

I KNOW RIGHT?! How dare a company in China develop a mount for FF14 and implement it on their servers months ago and then, ON TOP OF THAT, SE has the freaking nerve to license it and make it available to the rest of the playerbase! Especially when they KNEW that they were going to be DDoSed weeks or even months after putting this in motion! The gall of them! You should just unsub right now, that'll show them.

Yeah keep shilling for horrible service and a company that is hell bent on wringing each and every dollar out of you. It's 2018, you don't need precognition to know DDOS is a thing. Even without DDOSing the game's servers are far below average and despite being increasingly nickel and dimed for microtransactions none of those proceeds have gone back into the game. Despite 5 years after 2.0 it still feels like we're playing an mmo from the mid 2000's.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Pretty much why I knew from the get-go it'd be mogstation. I don't think they've ever released any of the Koren/Chinese developed stuff as in-game rewards, but I might be wrong. It's a simple case of parity between versions. The other regions had to pay for it on cash shop, so naturally we will too.

Which, to be fair, makes sense. Not to mention, Eastern Countries are much more accepting of things like this. In fact, not having a decked out Cash Shop is pretty much a death sentence in Korean.

[Nariel]

It's very interesting. A lot of the people who complain about Mog Station mounts not being available in-game do not appear to be mount collectors to any significant degree if one takes a peek at their character's lodestone profile.

True, I don't because I can't.

I can't put 30 bucks in a cash shop mount, I can't bring myself to play PvP nor I have enough gold chocobo feather... So why should I bother start a collection I can't complete. But then again, I'd love to get a reward incencitive enought for me to go fishing or motivate my unsubscibing FC to put together a submarine and get some nice mount out of our spiderweb and dust covered FC house.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yeah keep shilling for horrible service and a company that is hell bent on wringing each and every dollar out of you. It's 2018, you don't need precognition to know DDOS is a thing. Even without DDOSing the game's servers are far below average and despite being increasingly nickel and dimed for microtransactions none of those proceeds have gone back into the game. Despite 5 years after 2.0 it still feels like we're playing an mmo from the mid 2000's.

It's not shilling, it's correcting misinformation. The recent disconnects have literally nothing to do with the servers. We could have WoW's servers and they would still go down. I'll agree the servers are trash, but that wasn't your argument. You specifically blamed the recent outages on the servers which simply isn't the case.

As for nickel and diming. How? How are they doing this? If I elect not to purchase it, which is likely the case since I don't really care enough about it to spend $40 (Canadian), I'm not losing out on anything. And technically the Mogstation is the only aspect of revenue that does go back into FFXIV. It paid for the Chaos datacenter. It's our sub that gets deferred to other projects. At the end of the day, it's just another mount in a sea of them. If you don't want to spend money on it for whatever reason, do what I've opted to do and not buy it.

[Hazmick]

I think the whale is really cute ^_^

[Jandor]

And technically the Mogstation is the only aspect of revenue that does go back into FFXIV. It paid for the Chaos datacenter. It's our sub that gets deferred to other projects.

Would it make any practical difference to the end product if it was the sub being spent on Chaos datacentre and the mogstation funding FFXV DLC? Not that I can see.

Statements from SE about cash shop proceedings being spent directly on FFXIV are just a trick to help people justify extra purchases.

[Theodric]

The Mog Station is actually pretty reasonable when you look at the sort of tactics and products deployed by rival MMO's and other multiplayer games. At the end of the day, the offerings are largely limited to luxury products and are marketed as such. There's also no shortage of people willing to throw money at a game that they enjoy - shaming those individuals is foolish given that they are free to do whatever they like with their cash. It also reeks of jealousy.

[Dustytome]

It's very interesting. A lot of the people who complain about Mog Station mounts not being available in-game do not appear to be mount collectors to any significant degree if one takes a peek at their character's lodestone profile.

You don't need to be a mount collector to want certain mounts. I don't really care for most of the primal mounts myself, but I'd actually use a lot of the cash shop ones. I might even give in and buy them if they were a decent price for something that just a new model that's already on my computer and just has a digit in a database changed so my character can use it.