Why is the Cruise Chaser mount from the Mogstation?

[Toonie]

1. Money
2. Bad idea to add it in existing content, would just annoy people either way having to farm/reclear content they've run dry already.

I thought it was gonna be an mgp thing for make it rain but when it wasnt there, was obviously gonna be mogstation.

Sad fact is unless they were planning something special with rival wings, i dont see anywhere else to put it where it would make sense.

[DPZ2]

Not as profitable as mobile games for sure. But in every single earning reports from SE the last few years a lot of credit is given to XIV for their financial success.
https://mmos.com/news/square-enix-an...ecord-revenues.

The article quoted actually provides some rather interesting reading. The rest of this post isn't really about anything the poster said.

Here's a breakdown:

• Revenues for the company's MMO division came in at 13.6B Yen ($120M), up from 8.8B Yen ($80M) last quarter.
  
• Revenues from mobile games also increased quarter over quarter from 20.3B yen to 23.7B yen
  
• Publication revenues also soared quarter over quarter from 3.8B Yen to 5.1B yen
  
• Traditional retail game sales came in at only 10.8B Yen since no major titles were released in the quarter.

So, to be clear, the MMO division ranked second out of the four areas listed in the article, and only because of sales of a new expansion (note the 9B Yen from the previous quarter, which, after everyone has purchased the game, would drop back.)

The MMO division does not drive Square Enix's revenues. It is, in fact, worth 14B Yen in revenue for a company that made more than 50B Yen in revenue/

So - you can you tell me why, exactly, they should pay more attention to FFXIV than to the rest of the company's products?

[ReynTime]

The article quoted actually provides some rather interesting reading. The rest of this post isn't really about anything the poster said.

Here's a breakdown:

• Revenues for the company's MMO division came in at 13.6B Yen ($120M), up from 8.8B Yen ($80M) last quarter.
  
• Revenues from mobile games also increased quarter over quarter from 20.3B yen to 23.7B yen
  
• Publication revenues also soared quarter over quarter from 3.8B Yen to 5.1B yen
  
• Traditional retail game sales came in at only 10.8B Yen since no major titles were released in the quarter.

So, to be clear, the MMO division ranked second out of the four areas listed in the article, and only because of sales of a new expansion (note the 9B Yen from the previous quarter, which, after everyone has purchased the game, would drop back.)

The MMO division does not drive Square Enix's revenues. It is, in fact, worth 14B Yen in revenue for a company that made more than 50B Yen in revenue/

So - you can you tell me why, exactly, they should pay more attention to FFXIV than to the rest of the company's products?

Oh my god...

The mobile sector is a drastically LOWER investment for high return. It doesn't affect their resources on consoles and PC games nowhere near anywhere you think because it doesn't need that much.

[DPZ2]

This is a major disappointment but not something we haven't seen before. Indeed, Sleipnir, the mount rode by Odin, was added in the mog station a few years back. This is not new. But the difference is that CC is really popular, because it stems from Alexander raids in the HW expansion.

I can readily estimate that at least half of the people playing this game today have never entered Alexander, nor do they know where the new mount apparently came from.

Social media is a vast echo chamber, so it's probably not as popular as you might think.

[Lauront]

How else will they finance new tech to support players influx for endwalker

Through the monthly sub fee, one would think.

[DPZ2]

Either it exists or it doesn't but you wanted it so swipe those credit cards for the exclusive $30 cruise chaser that got removed from the game that could have been rewarded from so much other content

The Cruise Chaser was never an in-game mount. If not for the Mogstation, it would never see the light of day. Period.

[Ruru_Nayu]

The Cruise Chaser was never an in-game mount. If not for the Mogstation, it would never see the light of day. Period.

Nah i feel like people complained too much about pvp mounts to the point where the devs said "eh whatever just put it in the store"

[DPZ2]

Through the monthly sub fee, one would think.

And does the monthly sub fee come from "Try it for free" accounts? Will you really accept longer queue times logging in because of all the 'free' accounts, since the infrastructure that supports it all isn't going to be upgraded to catch up because it depends solely on that monthly sub fee?

[KizuyaKatogami]

The Cruise Chaser was never an in-game mount. If not for the Mogstation, it would never see the light of day. Period.

They literally could’ve put it as a make it rain available mount. What are you on?

[Malakii]

The Cruise Chaser was never an in-game mount. If not for the Mogstation, it would never see the light of day. Period.

I think you missed the point but either way your statement is ignorant. What I was saying is, either the mogstation exsist or it doesn't you can't be for the mogstation then when they put a mount on the mogstation you think it belongs in the game be against it. A mount being on the mount station doesnt prove that is would have never exsisted. It only proves that their was interest in the mount enough for them to do it. Which if we had no mogstation would be used in other marketing schemes to get players to join etc. That is more logical than it not exsisting at all.