Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
I begin to see what the complaint is..

SE should be a charity and operate at a loss. unfortunately, few businesses in the world can do this and stay afloat, employees want to be paid, bills have to be paid.

as for "thin air", I would not call development costs exactly free. If you feel this way do you or have you ever bought music? bought a book?
According to this site, wich reads out the Lodestone (and mounts are visible to the public), the Chocobo Carriage was sold 27917 times already. At a 36 dollar price tag, that's a million dollar they have already made with this carriage alone. If that is not making money out of thin air...

https://www.lalachievements.com/en/rarity/mount/global/

But whatever, I love my carriage and it was the first item ever I bought on day one xD