Why is the Cruise Chaser mount from the Mogstation?

[DBriggs304]

I didn't like those either, but it's easy to forget about them. The Magitek are just reskins. Carbuncle mount is an acquired taste as far as I'm concerned. Sleipnir is the only real travesty, and he was in a world boss Fate long before Urth's Fount released in 2.5. A raid bud of mine actually gifted me one back in Xmas 2015, so I sometimes forget he's cash shop related, even though I shouldn't.

I don't like or buy most things that go into the cash shop, but even neglecting the past, we shouldn't neglect this. It should be an eye opening example for people, crystal clear. The dev team is involved with the cash shop.

More like the entire game is involved with the cash shop. MMO's do not survive on subscriptions anymore. They all have cash shops that sustain them.

[Curisu]

Just comment here to show that I dont like seeing the CC mount in the Store....
It could have been a great ingame reward.

[Payadopa]

angrily takes out my wallet

You win this round, mogstation.

And this is exactly why it'll get worse and worse. But then again, gamers are not very smart.

[Larirawiel]

More like the entire game is involved with the cash shop. MMO's do not survive on subscriptions anymore. They all have cash shops that sustain them.

Sorry but i do not believe that cash shops are necessary to keep a subcription based MMO alive. I have read an article long time ago. This was an interview with a MMO dev and he said that 50k subscribers are enough to run an MMO. OK, let it be 100k today because of money inflation etc. I guess FF14 has far more subscribers than that.



I wouldn't have any problems with cash shop mounts at all. The point is, i really hate it when someone says something and then does the exactly opposite. When Yoshi-P says that there are not enough developer ressources to do certain things (that players want) then i believe it. But if there are suddenly enough ressources to create shop mounts then i guess the first statement was maybe a lie. But even it was not a lie, it was not honesty.


Cheers

[Recon1o6]

This is a major disappointment. Cash shop has no business in a subscription based game anyway, but something like this is just ridiculous. Here I thought the toast mount was a low blow given there was a literal perfect quest for it.

ff14 literally prints money. It doesn't need to paywall things.

[Garnix]

At least it isn't another Feast mount I'll never see

You mean the mounts that should actually be added to the store after a few years?

[White_Wolf_X]

Sorry but i do not believe that cash shops are necessary to keep a subcription based MMO alive. I have read an article long time ago. This was an interview with a MMO dev and he said that 50k subscribers are enough to run an MMO. OK, let it be 100k today because of money inflation etc. I guess FF14 has far more subscribers than that.



I wouldn't have any problems with cash shop mounts at all. The point is, i really hate it when someone says something and then does the exactly opposite. When Yoshi-P says that there are not enough developer ressources to do certain things (that players want) then i believe it. But if there are suddenly enough ressources to create shop mounts then i guess the first statement was maybe a lie. But even it was not a lie, it was not honesty.


Cheers

If you don't make anymore new content .. sure i guess.

[LuxusImReisfeld]

I also don't agree that this should be a Cash Shop mount.
Wouldn't even have minded to spent months to farm this mount ingame, since it looks so special.
Just buying it tho, makes it a lame mount and I won't be buying it.

[swiss_Momo]

Could've been better, like for 20k wolfmarks or for achievement points
Could've been worse, like wasted as ranked feast reward

[Krotoan]

I wouldn't have any problems with cash shop mounts at all. The point is, i really hate it when someone says something and then does the exactly opposite. When Yoshi-P says that there are not enough developer ressources to do certain things (that players want) then i believe it. But if there are suddenly enough ressources to create shop mounts then i guess the first statement was maybe a lie. But even it was not a lie, it was not honesty.


Cheers

So.. The cash shop for FFXIV directly funds the game as in money that gets spent there gets directly re-invested in FFXIV instead of going to SE's general profits. Or so they say. Our data center migration and other upgrades were allegedly funded by cash shop profits.


The cash shop modeling/animating/art team is also supposedly separate from the regular dev team. So while they may be using a premade resource, it's likely the shoulder riding animations and new texture (or recolor) was done by them and not the regular dev team.



So while them using a mob that's already in the game and selling it isn't what a lot of people would like.. it's not new and it's still well within the expectations they've set.


The standing agreement is Yoshi P gets to do pretty much what he wants with the game, but the cash shop "baroness" is a higher authority than he is and he cannot affect her teams decisions.


SE gets to siphon the FFXIV sub profits into whatever they want but cash shop money goes directly back into FFXIV.

Could be worse but this agreement has stood since the cash shop went up and we HAVE benefited from it.