Really? They put Shadowkeeper on the Mog Station?

[Darkpaw]

This is kinda funny to read. Sure maybe it shouldn’t be on mogstation, but it is and it won’t change. Nor will they stop selling mounts there.

But here’s the thing. Say this thread is successful, they remove this mount from mogstation and put in in the game only.. or the next mount gets solely put into the game.

If it’s a savage mount there’ll be 20 threads whining about that.

If it’s a blu raid mount there’s another 20 threads.

If it’s a multimillion mgp mount, at least 10 threads.

PvP locking away a cool mount? 30+ threads about how pvp is trash and they shouldn’t lock cool rewards behind “mid content”

If it’s an Ultimate mount 50+ threads complaining about it, and some of you that are here will be in every one of those threads.

Yall just like to throw a fit. Doesnt matter where it “should be” the company put it where they want it and they’ll make money, whether it’s right or not doesnt matter because even if they changed it you all would throw a fit about something else.

Not defending them sure it’s a business practice that feels pretty crappy.. and in some ways is, but it’s a business practice used the world over in every industry imaginable.

But if they try to cater to all yall and your needs, this game would die in a week and the company days after.

[Rowde]

Mr. President, a second mount has hit the FFXIV forums.

underrated

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

When they made Cruise Chaser a store mount I immediately thought that this will continue.

Hearing that Shadowkeeper is the new store mount, I scoffed.

[Themarvin]

It is not relevant and it is as little relevant as putting a Axloth mount as the final reward for the final tier of savage for EW.

If want it, just get it, if want the savage one, just get it... if am determined you can get ANYTHING in FFXIV, with of course some limitations such as previous tiers of rewards, that will not be listed again.

[IkaraGreydancer]

I like how the mogstation gets more content than endwalker

It's almost like they're run by 2 different teams or something. It's almost like one requires far more work than the other. I don't usually do this but you and all 8 that like this are dumb. Like legit. I honestly hope you're trolling...is what I said at first til I saw your post about the "billion dollar company defense". Mogstation items are not content...
I ask this, does a big company simply being big mean we are to hate everything they do and push back at all times? Are we not suppose to fund things they do at all simply due to size? Does the size somehow negate the fact that there are indeed humans behind said company? If so then you should drop your sub because you're funding "evil big corpo".

[ForteNightshade]

Aww the poor small indie company

They aren't entirely wrong though. As Daeriion summarized here, micro transactions make a sizable portion of the actual profits for a lot of games nowadays. Without them, our base sub fees would be significantly higher. We know this because other companies, Capcom specifically, have openly stated they believe the base price of games should be closer to $200. Outrageous, yeah? Well, prices haven't really caught up with inflation at all because of micro transactions—and to a lesser extent, DLC. The reality is the handful of whales and your occasional indulger make it so none of us have to pay a higher subscription. The trade off being some things will be locked behind a paywall.

It sucks but that's just the nature of the gaming industry and how expensive games have become to develop. Personally, I'll grudgingly accept micro transactions even if they are getting a little... excessive lately over increased fees because I can opt out of the former.

[kaynide]

I am continually surprised by the amount of cash people will spend for things which only exist within a game or app. Gear, mounts, extra gold, etc... players just eat it up, and in the end, they are left just holding nothing but binary code.

Doesn’t this apply to like, almost anything? It’s not like I get to keep that pizza forever, or have access to that hotel in Hawaii forever. Not to mention games/movies as a whole.

Not meaning to be argumentative, just that there are things x, y or z that bring people some level of happiness. And those things require some amount of time/effort/currency to enjoy them.

People can debate the amounts and whether it’s fair or not, but ultimately it just boils down to whether that x y or z is worth their t/e/c.

[keichirou]

One part I don't get is you saying seasonal items aren't free. How aren't they exactly? They don't cost money. And you sub pay for you to have access to the servers. The rest is just there for you to choose to obtain or not. But let's just say we ARE paying for everything we get in ffxiv with our subs, what difference does it make it were paying for it in game than if we buy off MS? By your logic we're still buying it one way or another. That's were that logic takes a dip south.

is like this
If you dont pay the sub you cannot play the game..if you cannot play the game you cannot earn those items
you dont pay to have access to servers only , you pay to play the game and its entirety.
is like a single player, you pay for the actual game

[IkaraGreydancer]

is like this
If you dont pay the sub you cannot play the game..if you cannot play the game you cannot earn those items
you dont pay to have access to servers only , you pay to play the game and its entirety.
is like a single player, you pay for the actual game

So by your logic folks mad at the mogstation are mad for no reason. If everything is paid for the only difference is where it's sold. The mount wouldn't be free if it was simply in game because it'd still cost money (and time which the mogstation avoids on the later)

[DevonEllwood]

I don't understand why people thought it would be for blue mage. People found out about the mount through sites like Garlondtools and there was nothing for blue mage listed. No spells, no achievements, nothing. So why would the mount be there and not the achievement it would be associated with? The blue mage update comes out later.

People thought it would be simply because of the raid boss for the next set of blue mage fights? What does a morbol have to do with Alexander or coils of Bahamut? I really feel everyone who believed that the mount was for blue mage were setting themselves up for disappointment.

Also that thing has the dumbest flight animation