New winter glam for mogstation and not xmas event

[Duskane]

You will take your trashmob mount with a smile, ungrateful brat.

If you want anything festive, cough up 18 bucks, or Tataru will break your kneecaps. (despite most of the event sets going for 5 )

the deer is a great mount though...

[MistakeNot]

Apparently the outfit is based on a peoples living in the extreme northern parts of Sweden? That's really cool if so.

More like "loosely inspired by", but yeah, it does have some similarities to traditional Sami clothing.

[Iscah]

Huh I wonder if theyre trying to be analogous to Roegadyn culture then since the North is where Aerslaent is in Etheirys. I sure hope we get to travel there some day

Noooo, don't say that and set my brain buzzing whether it should be cultural gear for my Roegadyn!

Nope, she's Lominsan. She doesn't need Aerslant gear. Don't do this to me, brain!

[BaconBits]

Lmao.

/10char

[RobynDaBank]

More like "loosely inspired by", but yeah, it does have some similarities to traditional Sami clothing.

Thanks, didn't know the details. Just saw an off-handed text from my Swedish friend mentioning it but didn't know where to look.

[RemiRose]

But-But muh great award-winning community support.......

[MikkoAkure]

Noooo, don't say that and set my brain buzzing whether it should be cultural gear for my Roegadyn!

Nope, she's Lominsan. She doesn't need Aerslant gear. Don't do this to me, brain!

I always got the impression that Aerslaent was Norse. The sea people famous for the vikings. This outfit is inspired by the Sami who are genetically, culturally, and linguistically distinct and herd reindeer further north. Lominsan culture is practically an extension of Roegadyn culture since they started the city and are the most culturally dominant race there. Limsa’s flag even has Norse aspects to it.


As for why we didn’t get this outfit in the holiday event, Mogstation team is a separate team and do their own thing. This same thread popped up when the spriggan mount came out around Easter years ago.

That said, it is a bit suspicious that a Sami Mogstation outfit comes out at the same time as a reindeer mount and I think that holiday/seasonal adjacent special Mogstation items like this one should be cheaper or have a different way of unlocking them in the game than the typically short holiday events that is more time intensive but rewarding and entices people to come into the game.

Then again, the glam for the variant dungeons doesn’t exactly feel like it’s making everyone trip over themselves rushing to do it and SE is running a business and some suit decided that this makes money and is what they’re going to do.

[Deveryn]

Y'all are sad.

[Johners]

>Be sub MMO
>Have seasonal events that end up in cash store
>Get to seasonal even and just pump half the rewards into the cash store
>TFW no chance to earn in game

Just a dumb outfit, who even needs it anyway COPIUM

In all seriousness though, it's super funny to me that XIV piles yet more cash store items into the game with no mechanism to earn via in-game activities while that other MMO we all hate has just announced a new feature that'll allow you to earn cash store items and removed items entirely via actual gameplay (https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ne...e-trading-post). I know that XIV is the uninspired cash cow that Square Enix would otherwise die without, it's a little insulting that it's this brazen but I guess enough people keep paying for it so they won't change.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Instead of giving us exactly one chance to get it in-game then going to the cash shop, they are just putting it directly into the cash shop instead. What do we even pay a sub for, exactly?

Maintenance fees & to cover dev salaries. Even then that's debatable on the dev salaries part, given based on the credits, this game has potential close to several hundred people working on it, many of whom have very high salaried jobs.

From my own experience working in online game development environments, they aren't making that much, if any profit off the sub fees. For a game of this massive scope, especially after years of inflation since its release, $15 sub likely ain't cutting it, even before factoring in the people who use entry or legacy players who get a discount. They'd likely have to bump the sub up to like $50/month if they want to keep the same profit margins the mogstation brings in...which you can imagine would go over so well with the playerbase.

This ain't any different that most of the other 'subscription' services you pay for out there - most of them rely on other methods to make the money they need, like data selling, ads, kickbacks, etc, since the subscription price people are willing to pay by far and large and the actual price the subscription would need to be in order to be actually profitable for a company are vastly different.

Mogstation is a necessary evil to keep sub prices down, as it effectively allows others to cover the tab that other players would be refusing/can't pay. Do I personally like it? no. But it's the simple uncaring reality, whether any of us like it or not - Square ain't gonna run FF14 for barely any profit margins, they are a company. Complaining about it is tossing breath to the wind, since the alternative to the mogstation would kill the game overnight.

Even beyond that, there's also the fact that the mogstation team has been stated time & again to operate with a high amount of autonomy from the FF14 dev team on what they want to do, they aren't the same thing. If the mogstation team wants to make a snow glamour for the mogstation for the holiday season, it doesn't stop Yoshi-P & the devs from making one in-game. But given they only tend to give one 'big' reward per event, it was likely either a glam or the reindeer, so they went with the reindeer given they likely knew the mogstation's winter project. When they've historically only given one 'major' (glamour/mount) reward each event this past year, to say we were robbed of a glamour is extremely disingenuous, when it was always just going to be the reindeer only regardless of whatever the mogstation did.