Why is the Cruise Chaser mount from the Mogstation?

[Icycrits]

I've played this game for more than 6 years and I've never complained about anything placed in mog station. In fact I even support them and shout JUST TAKE MY MONEY.

But Cruise Chaser is special to me and I dare say to many other players too. To put it into mog station is simply doing CC a giant disservice. CC deserves better than this.

I don't really care if its achievement mount, a quest mount, MGP, fishing, savage, whatever in game. As long as its something that can be worked towards in game. CC... deserves at least that.

This. This. This.

I don't have much to add, but I came here just to voice my opinion just as I have been all over Reddit and Twitter. I am no stranger to the mogstation, assorted cosmetic costumes that have nothing to do with the game, or costumes from other FF games I'm okay with because they are just that: optional cosmetics. But when you take something like Cruise Chaser and make it a mount, it's a slap to the face to all of your loyal playerbase. This really hurts the integrity of the game. It didn't even have to be a hardcore mount like Cerberus or Demi-Ozma, I don't understand where this false dichotomy of "it's better than Feast," it could have literally come from a low effort Moogle Tomestone event and it would've been better than this.

As cool as this mount is, and as much as I love CC and his theme, I cannot in good conscious support this direction for my favorite game. Besides, now all I can think of when I hear "Forward and Back" is the direction someone swipes their credit card. For shame SE, not even Blizzard would overstep this hard and put one of their most beloved bosses on the cash shop. For shame.

[Icycrits]

I do not support such behavior and i do not buy any mounts from cash shops. Yoshi-P whines about the lack of developer ressources and why they will not introduce new races etc. But when it comes to design new cash shop mounts the developer ressources are suddenly available. That sounds not very plausible to me.

Funny how Viera have been waiting for two years for the devs to free up the resources to give us a single new hairstyle for this half completed race, yet they somehow found the resources for this very complex two seater mount with a model swap, awesome animations, and the best soundtrack in the game. I guess you could argue, all of these assets for the mount already existed and just needed to be applied to a character model, but the same could be said about the dozens of hairstyles already in-game, some of which we have spent real money purchasing that we cannot use on Viera to this day.

How many mounts do apologists think we should have to buy before SE gives Yoshi P the proper budget he needs to get these basic features added? This is beyond greedy and gross.

[Kozh]

How many mounts do apologists think we should have to buy before SE gives Yoshi P the proper budget he needs to get these basic features added? This is beyond greedy and gross.

Never, this game has too many white knights. Anyone who dare critized ffxiv, or God forbid the devs team, are seen as the bad guys.

[TeraRamis]

Honestly starting to want to buy the thing just to offset someone who isn't. Yes, I'm that petty.

[Joint]

I will not pay to hear forward and back any longer.. NOOO nope not happening .... lol NIGHTMARES

[Zeeds]

People defending the Cruise Chaser in the shop, because the money go for the dev team, yet, i havent seen an effort for the Latin/Spanish players, like at least, translate the game for us, but nothing.

The price for me in colombia, is almost the same price, i pay for Tales of Arise, and for one mount, that could be obtained in game.

Its Sad.

[Yencat]

I stopped getting worked up and arguing over store mounts after the Chocobo Carriage, but all the people saying you didn't mind store mounts before or supported it and even cheered it on until now... What did you expect? What did you think was going to happen? That they'd never put something you think is special or something you really wanted on there?

If anything that's exactly the reason Cruise Chaser is on there, because even in this thread some of the angry people are grudgingly admitting they'll still buy it because they want it so much. It doesn't even matter anymore if you yourself think this is over the line or if you buy it or not because even if you don't other people will.

[strawberrycake]

Its not like a mount from a Candy bar, its not like a mount from a twitch event. The reason why its on the mog station is because a Mount like Cruise Chaser would most likely come from higher end content, Savage to Ultimate lvl content.

But this is what we have to deal with given that FF has also destroyed the initial concept older MMOs had. You can't have everything, or as the community likes to call it, "GateKeeping". IF people wanted this to be earned then you'd have to hear literally everyone who "Can't"/ Won't/Not good enough to do savage/Ultimate lvl content complain about it not being an easy mount. If it was put into the Gold Saucer then you'd hear people ask why its not part of a raid or higher end content given how much of a hard fight Cruise Chaser WAS in its hay day.

Long story short, kill two birds with one stone, buy it if you want it, ignore it if you don't.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Bojaza,ocean fishing,ishgard restoration and the Panademic. There is your answer to the content issue. Content lost so one pice can be improved and new content added. Anything else became a victim of the panademic

None of that makes up for the loss in content we had, and a lot of it was before the pandemic even existed so please don’t use that as an excuse.

[SturmChurro]

It's not like they haven't been investing in the game regardless; It's not as if they just ran away with the money they make off subs and the mogstation or whatever. Yeah, content was a bit sparse in comparison, even prior to Covid, but now, towards the end of ShB, it's pretty clear they have been putting more into the game - such as that new datacenter (which costs money). I only question their priorities in terms of types of content, but they do seem to be trying to provide as much as they can considering, even with manpower issues.