It's so Awesome to See All the Cool Stuff Are Now in Cashshop.

[Ivtrix]

Lmaooo

[AvalonBright]

I know this may be a little too hard for you to comprehend, but not everyone who isn't OK with the current state of the cash shop is "financially challenged". People like myself can afford to buy the cosmetics, we just don't want to because we don't want to support what seems to be incredibly anti-consumer behaviour on the part of SE. It's no secret that in-game rewards for events have been meh at best for a long time. All the cool stuff gets added to the cash shop. Not to mention the price tags, which are absolutely ridiculous. I'm sorry, but selling a single mount for nearly the same amount of money as an entire EXPANSION is not OK. When cosmetic items cost more money than an entire new game, something is very wrong. They're just fishing for whales and leaving everyone else in the dust.

This. Not to mention it's just a boring mount. I still don't regret the Lunar Whale purchase. It's unique, it stands out, and the 8-man size is amusing. Would have been better if EW ACTUALLY HAD EXPLORATORY ZONES STILL, but I digress. The bike is just...another bike. It doesn't stand out at all, nothing's special about it, and even the 2-seater animation is stupid. But almost $40 USD for a 2-seater mount alone? They're out of their minds.

[Lufir]

Lmaooo

Lol. Is that real? So the passenger doesn't hop into the sidecar?

[XgungraveX]

got both mount and emote, no regrets.

[Karious]

I'm disappointed. I'd kill for more stuff to actually earn in game instead of pulling out my wallet.

[PercibelTheren]

This. Not to mention it's just a boring mount. I still don't regret the Lunar Whale purchase. It's unique, it stands out, and the 8-man size is amusing. Would have been better if EW ACTUALLY HAD EXPLORATORY ZONES STILL, but I digress. The bike is just...another bike. It doesn't stand out at all, nothing's special about it, and even the 2-seater animation is stupid. But almost $40 USD for a 2-seater mount alone? They're out of their minds.

I don't own the Lunar Whale personally but I understand the appeal of it. It fills a very specific niche of a 8-person mount. We have a player who owns it in our FC and it makes our weekly map runs very convenient. One person can be driving us around while the rest of the party jokes around in VC and posts memes in Discord or something. I have been tempted to get it myself because I'm the person responsible for organizing map runs, but I always stop short of buying it because I think the whale is kinda ugly. Still, I think it's a fine item. You are paying for the additional convenience. A 2-seater bike for that price, though? Not a chance.

[Atelier-Bagur]

The issue with this year is that there is so much less in game in the form of meaningful rewards or lasting content. Blue Mage doesn't have a new savage mount (where did the Shadowkeeper mount end up going?) Relic grind in Shadowbringers gave players multiple zones to play through along with a Cerberus mount for challenge seekers. This expansion? Nothing. PvP series has been giving less and less rewards each cycle. People are still complaining about terrible rewards from criterion.

Most people don't care about cash shops if the game is supplementing with nice things. I'm not interested if someone didn't enjoy Bozja, doesn't play Blue Mage content, or any other excuse. The fact is there is less and less in game and more and more in the mogstation.

Shb relic gave multiple zones? You mean just the 2 that all relegate to the same thing that's just Fate farming? A lot of the steps in the relic were also just queuing a specific piece of content over and over again which was mindless and dumb.

Also how is PvP series rewards giving less? It's still the same number of milestone rewards. Just because they went with a mount reward over a glam set this season (which I'm disappointed ngl) doesn't mean it's less.

The actual variant content itself is amazing but yes also still majorly disappointed by the lack of meaningful rewards for Criterion

[Axxion]

Are you sure? I never saw it on the Chinese mogstation, and not seeing it right now too, unlike the Magician Emote, and various other cosmetics that are unavaiable for the JP/EU/NA version.
The video on Bilibili does states that the copilot animation showned may be different from the 'official' release. They definitely used a mod to showcase how it may looks like, but it was not accurate

If it was truly released on the Chinese CS first, why would it be that broken? Right picture from @bea_amanecer


I'm not defending this mount though, it's a shame they released it on the CS, but I find it kinda unfair to trash on it when the video was misleading....!

all good, i assumed it was usually get to them first.

[Ivtrix]

Lol. Is that real? So the passenger doesn't hop into the sidecar?

Yes that is real

[MikkoAkure]

For such an expensive mount, I would’ve expected something more special, like the player 2 position being inside the side car carrying Alpha and little Omega dangling off the back while it’s flying.