$35, really SE?

[TwistedTea]

Devs give free 4 person mount as a car
Community : cool, thanks, awesome

Devs add a $36 4 person mount months later
Community : REEEE, P2W, Cancel my sub brb.

I love the car.

This new mount does feel like it would fit in with the lore and should have been an in-game achievement mount considering the Rising event.

I think some people would care less, if it was something like the Peacock mount.

But whatever, Mogstation gonna mogstation as long as people are willing to pay out.

[Driavna]

I doubt any mmo will offer a free expac on launch day

Depends on the business model.

Also, I will not consider BDO a good example. I will say GW2 or ESO will be a better comparison here.

Like it or not FFXIV already has similar services to many B2P/F2P games, in some cases even a worst implementation. For example, in GW2 you pay it once to expand your inventory while in FFXIV we need to rent it each month.

[ForteNightshade]

I mean, they could've been reasonable with the price at least.

I could basically go and buy Nier: Automata with the same amount of money.

What if someone doesn't care about Nier: Automata? This argument always lacks perspective. I'll cite my best friend. She only plays Kingdoms Hearts, Pokemon and Final Fantasy games. You can swear up and down to her how amazing Witcher 3, Mass Effect or Nier are. She isn't going to care because they simply don't interest her. I bought her the Ruby Carbuncle for her Birthday, and she used that mount practically every time she logged in. That mount had more value to her than Nier: Automata ever would.

People have different interests and value things differently. What you consider ridiculous and overpriced, they may not. And there isn't anything wrong with that.

[TheMightyMollusk]

and every single one of us starting our journey in that carriage

Except for players who started in Limsa Lominsa. They came in on a boat.

[Yencat]

Except for players who started in Limsa Lominsa. They came in on a boat.

Next cash shop mount confirmed?

[Neri]

Except for players who started in Limsa Lominsa. They came in on a boat.

Incoming battleship-class mount which could carry a whole full alliance.

[Rosekitten]

Honest just rather sad this wasn't a reward from a long quest chain or the lead into the next xpack or even heck I dunno.. updating veteran rewards or even a RaF.
I get it, the rig took probably a lot of work.. but considering they pretty much had the model for years and I can't wait to see vids on how wonky the animations for the connections to the cart turn out to be... hard pass for me.. =/
I get they want and need money for the server but I feel like the releases on the shop are costing more and more.. while they could easily sweet talk people into buying more with some lowered prices.

edit:
Or another option, finish the GC ranks and make it a reward from there? Dunno. Not canceling my sub over it. But sadly even with a sale it's not a mount I'll be adding to my collection. Maybe if they had the option like it detected your company chocobo and used that model or even changed the colors from the yellow to that of your GC.

[Roda]

Honest just rather sad this wasn't a reward from a long quest chain or the lead into the next xpack or even heck I dunno.. updating veteran rewards or even a RaF.
I get it, the rig took probably a lot of work.. but considering they pretty much had the model for years and I can't wait to see vids on how wonky the animations for the connections to the cart turn out to be... hard pass for me.. =/
I get they want and need money for the server but I feel like the releases on the shop are costing more and more.. while they could easily sweet talk people into buying more with some lowered prices

I was hoping for ishgardian restoration, or hell maybe one designed with the GCs in mind and put them in the rewards list for that.

And if they are really using this cash shop money for the game's servers, then why can't they freaking move the NA servers to a more central location like every other mmo and not have us route through that awful NTT node that crashes every time someone THINKS about going on the internet?

[Rosekitten]

I was hoping for ishgardian restoration, or hell maybe one designed with the GCs in mind and put them in the rewards list for that.

And if they are really using this cash shop money for the game's servers, then why can't they freaking move the NA servers to a more central location like every other mmo and not have us route through that awful NTT node that crashes every time someone THINKS about going on the internet?

Yeah I had just edited my post for the GC ranks after I thought. Ishgard would have been a fine idea too for one of those crazy 500k points plus rewards haha.
but.. this is what we got instead. =/ *shrug* Just found a vid on the animation and I'm not overly thrilled, it's not bad but it's a bit more stiff than I'd like for the price tag.

[Neri]

hmmm, this one seems to take longer to receive than usual. Still haven't receive it yet.