8 person Luner whale mount coming

[van_arn]

Can we have these ugly but cool things in actual in-game events? You know, since we are playing a game. Instead of having hats we can't wear, fused events, housing items, streamers no one uses and CUL knives. I think it's better than having people decide whether
they want to pay about 50 euros (which is my guess) on it or miss it while we keep getting shafted on events that are supposed to be special. Thanks.

Hi, the actual event is free. This whale will be about as useful as the limited-event car in a few months, which isn't very useful at all.

As far as funding events like this, I'm more than happy to have a limited-run event like this as opposed to them charging everyone a digital ticket to view the streams. I'd rather everyone have access to the stream than have everyone with that... thing.

[Vyrerus]

I might shell out for it, with it being an FFIV reference and all. Which I guess means, no actual Lunar Whale to take us to the Moon. Tower of Babil it is!

[Vahlnir]

Hi, the actual event is free. This whale will be about as useful as the limited-event car in a few months, which isn't very useful at all.

Eh, usefulness is subjective. I still use my car every so often, though I find myself cruising around on my SDS Fenrir more than anything. It's hard to look at most other mounts that I have or don't have and think "man, I'd love to ride around on that" when I have a motorcycle as awesome as that one. lol An object's worth or appeal, pixeled or otherwise, is also subjective. Personally, I'm looking forward to this lunar whale. I think it looks great. I'd say more but I would probably sound like a broken record.

[Hysterior]

Love that a "Whale" mount is available for purchase and is likely to be the most expensive mount for purchase... no shame haha

[Ranhansha]

Hi, the actual event is free. This whale will be about as useful as the limited-event car in a few months, which isn't very useful at all.

As far as funding events like this, I'm more than happy to have a limited-run event like this as opposed to them charging everyone a digital ticket to view the streams. I'd rather everyone have access to the stream than have everyone with that... thing.

That is not the dilemma I proposed. However, I'd like to see them charging people for an event that's similar to the last announcement because they need funding for that. Wonder why they decided to sell the mount separately...

[Berkilak]

Can we have these ugly but cool things in actual in-game events? You know, since we are playing a game. Instead of having hats we can't wear, fused events, housing items, streamers no one uses and CUL knives. I think it's better than having people decide whether
they want to pay about 50 euros (which is my guess) on it or miss it while we keep getting shafted on events that are supposed to be special. Thanks.

It remains to be seen how integral a Lunar Whale is to the narrative or tone of Endbringer. I'm assuming it'll be like the car wherein... it's not relevant at all. It's a FFIV reference because we're going to the Moon. And if people want to show a little voluntary financial support, all the more power to them.

It's not like they don't give us crazy cool things to get in-game.

[linayar]

From what I can see from the trailer, you can't even see the people on the mount and they just end up as invisible names.

Yep, it's neat in that you can take screenshots and pretend that you have friends riding with you.

Look, these are pictures of my friends and I exploring the world together on my ride!

[Naoki34]

Available for purchase when the digital fan festival arrives. 8 person mount, so one person will be able to transport their whole party.

A useless mount outside of Stormblood's Eureka where the mount is only accessible later.

I don't understand the interest of adding this, except for the show-off. It goes much faster than everyone uses his mount, already it's slow with the FFXV mount.

[Packetdancer]

Which I guess means, no actual Lunar Whale to take us to the Moon. Tower of Babil it is!

My FC was joking around prior to the announcement showcase about what the next expansion could be to make it another 'SB' acronym. I quipped it could be "Spacebound" or "Spaceborne", and we'd take an ancient Allagan starship (since we know those existed) and work with magitek experts we'd recruit out of the ruins of Garlemald to restore it so we could get to the moon.

And then we got the announcement.

I mean, I was joking at the time... but now I kind of want to see if we get to restore/retrofit an ancient Allagan spaceship in order to get there.

[Shougun]

Eh, usefulness is subjective. I still use my car every so often, though I find myself cruising around on my SDS Fenrir more than anything. It's hard to look at most other mounts that I have or don't have and think "man, I'd love to ride around on that" when I have a motorcycle as awesome as that one. lol An object's worth or appeal, pixeled or otherwise, is also subjective. Personally, I'm looking forward to this lunar whale. I think it looks great. I'd say more but I would probably sound like a broken record.

Not sure about the mog shop impacting this but your comment on not feeling "I'd love to ride around on that" is why I wish mounts had more flavor. Kind of wish you saw a new mount and was like "Wooooaah! I'd love to try driving that!". Like if you look to GW2's mounts, each one is quite different in feel and features.

Kind of wish there was a movement type (impact) to each mount and some more both actual and goof abilities more often, with perhaps the option to turn on "atherial movement" which has your character infuse the mount with a default move type (taking away any unique characteristics if you didn't want the unique move style). So a mount may pick up speed as if it accelerates, or have a rocket boost, or goof abilities are the ones we already see 'sometimes'. The unique movement could technically be a little better than atherial movement but is just like "I don't want to tokyo drift on my manta ray" so you turn it into the default type. Maybe for the whale it has a drop ship feature so you could launch out players like in pods to the ground from at height (assuming you're over pathable ground).

I know it might be a bit silly but, I guess I don't really love that the mounts don't have that much character to them.. but it doesn't ruin the game, just feels a bit empty that they are all the same.