The whale mount is up on Mogstation

[Deceptus]

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'd have to make that info public which most don't. No need to be a condescending jerk.

[Lauront]

You'd have to make that info public which most don't. No need to be a condescending jerk.

There's also no need to whine about this every time SE sells something new, but people do. This is optional content at an extra cost. Very few of the designs have ever struck me as markedly better than anything you can obtain in-game, and what does is usually NPC clothing that most MMOs would never provide you with, anyway. There is nothing condescending in pointing out that some of the people complaining are simply doing so for the sake of it.

Alright, but what rival MMOs are you talking about? And to be more specific : what rival MMOs with a monthly subscription?
If I look at the other MMOs with a sub, I'm not quite sure we can describe FFXIV as reasonable.

WoW is a glaring example.

In the end, it's like any other consumer product - don't like the price, move on. To an extent, feedback assists in fine-tuning their product offering, but what's "reasonable" with respect to consumer decisions is very subjective to that consumer. And besides, most of these things are steeply discounted if you just wait a while. So I really cannot see the issue.