Why is the Cruise Chaser mount from the Mogstation?

[ForteNightshade]

1) Inflation: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inf.../2010?amount=1 The subscription should actually cost between $18.75 and $20 based on trends from 2010-2021. You're essentially getting $4 free in content every month when compared to 2010.
2) This is a business. The mount is much-desired. The cash shop has been around the better part of a decade. There's nothing new going on here to legitimize this level of QQ from the community.
3) If it isn't about the money, then it isn't about anything. Buy it, or quit wailing about it.

Just to further highlight your point. The CEO of Capcom once publicly said he feels video games should retail at $150 or more. Which is insane, but consider the retail price of games hasn't risen in over two decades until just recently with the PS5/Xbox Series X. And only by $10. This is a paltry amount when you factor in the staggering increase in cost to gaming development from the early 2000s to today. For reference sake, FFXIV 1.0 cost SE nearly half a billion dollars. FFXV cost even more.. DLC and Micro-transactions exist as the compromise between huge price spikes on retail and subscription fees. Instead of forcing everyone to pay substantially more than they do, they chose an optional solution.

Obviously, some companies have taken advantage of this by creating problems and selling you the solution. FFXIV hasn't done this. All the Cash Shop does is offer cosmetics and some convenience. And when Square Enix tries to overstep, you get the mess that was Marvel Avenges. Which, by the way, cost them hundreds of millions. I don't think they want to try anything like that in FFXIV.

[TeraRamis]

Possession means nothing when the methods of acquisition are as simple as running a credit card.

Guess we're back to square one, then: leaving the game that wallops you when it gets drunk.

[Pelletier]

Just to further highlight your point. The CEO of Capcom once publicly said he feels video games should retail at $150 or more. Which is insane, but consider the retail price of games hasn't risen in over two decades until just recently with the PS5/Xbox Series X. And only by $10. This is a paltry amount when you factor in the staggering increase in cost to gaming development from the early 2000s to today. For reference sake, FFXIV 1.0 cost SE nearly half a billion dollars. FFXV cost even more.. DLC and Micro-transactions exist as the compromise between huge price spikes on retail and subscription fees. Instead of forcing everyone to pay substantially more than they do, they chose an optional solution.

Obviously, some companies have taken advantage of this by creating problems and selling you the solution. FFXIV hasn't done this. All the Cash Shop does is offer cosmetics and some convenience. And when Square Enix tries to overstep, you get the mess that was Marvel Avenges. Which, by the way, cost them hundreds of millions. I don't think they want to try anything like that in FFXIV.

I think we all know SE is not the worst, far from it.

[Sicno]

Apparently people can't have different experiences.


You said cruise chaser was one of the more impactful. I disagree.

You aren't really refuting my point. Lol.

Are you really gonna compare a trash mob gauntlet to the plethora of mechanics Cruise Chaser introduced? Probably the most relevant being the "numbers", being used even to this day (Diamond ex). The introduction of the "Active Time Events" (even if it this one was a joke). You talked about "anxiety" when the Dreadnought spawned. How about the anxiety of not destroying the plaform you're standing on, and seeing it get darker and darker as you're getting close to the end of the fight? And the whole thing about skipping the Lapis phase (not like this was intended/good design, but it did make things more interesting). And the music. Are you really gonna compare Turn 4, of all things, to that?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Are you really gonna compare a trash mob gauntlet to the plethora of mechanics Cruise Chaser introduced? Probably the most relevant being the "numbers", being used even to this day (Diamond ex). The introduction of the "Active Time Events" (even if it this one was a joke). You talked about "anxiety" when the Dreadnought spawned. How about the anxiety of not destroying the plaform you're standing on, and seeing it get darker and darker as you're getting close to the end of the fight? And the whole thing about skipping the Lapis phase (not like this was intended/good design, but it did make things more interesting). and the music. Are you really gonna compare Turn 4, of all things, to that?

Personally? Yes. They were also used in t8. And t10.

It was a favorite enemy in my static.

I love how you just discount that thought.

[Pelletier]

Are you really gonna compare a trash mob gauntlet to the plethora of mechanics Cruise Chaser introduced? Probably the most relevant being the "numbers", being used even to this day (Diamond ex). The introduction of the "Active Time Events" (even if it this one was a joke). You talked about "anxiety" when the Dreadnought spawned. How about the anxiety of not destroying the plaform you're standing on, and seeing it get darker and darker as you're getting close to the end of the fight? And the whole thing about skipping the Lapis phase (not like this was intended/good design, but it did make things more interesting). And the music. Are you really gonna compare Turn 4, of all things, to that?

Personally? Yes. They were also used in t8. And t10.

It was a favorite enemy in my static.

I love how you just discount that thought.

You both don't have to fight each other over which raid model has been done dirtier, the fact is that both are very cool models, both have an special meaning to each player like you both and both have been done dirty, one with time-limited top100 shit and the other by making it buyable instead of accomplishable with skill/dedication.

[Velnora]

Guess we're back to square one, then: leaving the game that wallops you when it gets drunk.

Evidently some, such as yourself, choose to take it.

[Velnora]

Just to further highlight your point. The CEO of Capcom once publicly said he feels video games should retail at $150 or more. Which is insane, but consider the retail price of games hasn't risen in over two decades until just recently with the PS5/Xbox Series X. And only by $10. This is a paltry amount when you factor in the staggering increase in cost to gaming development from the early 2000s to today. For reference sake, FFXIV 1.0 cost SE nearly half a billion dollars. FFXV cost even more.. DLC and Micro-transactions exist as the compromise between huge price spikes on retail and subscription fees. Instead of forcing everyone to pay substantially more than they do, they chose an optional solution.

Obviously, some companies have taken advantage of this by creating problems and selling you the solution. FFXIV hasn't done this. All the Cash Shop does is offer cosmetics and some convenience. And when Square Enix tries to overstep, you get the mess that was Marvel Avenges. Which, by the way, cost them hundreds of millions. I don't think they want to try anything like that in FFXIV.

Buy the rumor, sell the news.

[Balmung_Griffin]

You know what makes me sad?
They've killed Veteran Rewards (which was super cool) under the valid point that most old stuff would be unattainable for a new player, implemented an achievement point exchange that solved that problem and then proceeded to never put ANYTHING there again.

For new players: Veteran Rewards were an appreciation gesture where the dev team gifted some items (Minions, furniture, mounts) based on your total subscription time.

[Adamantini]

Money. That is your answer.

They're testing how far they can go with items from mogstation. And the community don't care, so this will become more and more frequent.

I don't care if they sell old events items, or out of character items (like NPC clothes, or a big fat moogle mount), but this mount could easly earned from a raid or achievement reward.

I'm beggining to be alert of mogstation since the shadowbringers launch. For example: they're selling half itens for viera and hrothgar at full price (they have to pay for hairs and helms, that they can't use, to obtain a specific gear they want. And SE does not care to resolve that).