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

[Arohk]

No thanks, its already lagging enough in cities with all the flying lala bots under the maps added to the players idling there all day, no need for mounts to make that even worse

If there are too many people, just make more channels

[ZenoDiogenes]

Quick reminder that all those Cash Shop items could have been in-game rewards for the new Criterion Dungeon.

[Reap00]

Don't you guys have money? We need it to develop FF17 please understand, pay up losers!

You say pay up losers yet you sub? Think about that a minute.

[Bunnycake]

Here is a great advice for SE, if you want to sell more mounts, let us use them in Cities, right now it only works in Idleshire.
Why would i buy a store mount and cant even show off how financially stable i am to the broke scrubs around me.

https://youtu.be/PB4Nby2Ai-g
Just flex mounts in hunts.

[IkaraGreydancer]

Complaining about this stuff is dumb. SE wouldn't do this if players didn't but them. If anyone is to blame its players and since folks have the right to spend their money how they want you really have no say. But it or move on. Simple.

[DragonFlyy]

Actually kinda irritated because it was speculated that bike would come from Island Sanctuary.

So, has every new mount outside of the Axo that was datamined ended up on Mog instead of actual content? I'm really struggling to think of ones that didn't.

Side note, are we just not getting Moonfire this year since they're already discounting the glam from last years?

Per www.ffxivcollect.com Since 6.4 there have been 12 new mounts, 2 of them are on the store.

Also Moonfire usually happens around the second week of August. (last year it was Aug. 10th)

[Aword3213]

I am not mostly negative about the game, but i point out a lot of issues that need to be adressed, but even the smallest improvements takes them years to do. Hence we still don't have chat bubbles for example.
It is simply, the longer you play a game the More problems you find, and why am i playing FF14 still? I like MMOrpgs, but ther eis just nothing better to play, everything else is littered with pay2win and/or Gatcha gerbage mechanics, at least we are spared from this plague here.

That's why I said "even if" instead of "even though"

[Atelier-Bagur]

Per www.ffxivcollect.com Since 6.4 there have been 12 new mounts, 2 of them are on the store.

Also Moonfire usually happens around the second week of August. (last year it was Aug. 10th)

Uh oh, are you trying to debate the masses with actual facts and numbers?

Everyone grab your pitchforks! This person is trying to use sensual logic!

[sintea]

It’s almost like they’re surprised they put stuff into the cash shop, there is still plenty of gear, mounts and minions etc in the game which you can earn in game unlike say WoW, ESO, BDO, Blue Protocol etc etc

Bit of an off-topic for the thread itself but I find the inclusion of WoW weird in this list because it has 1053 mounts from different activities, some having been retired/unavailable'd aye but out of that only 29 are shop ones. Minions are the same, 1703, some retired/unavailable and 23ish shop ones. Lets not get into gear when for example my wow paladin currently has 644 different looks she can earn just for plate chestpieces while shop only sports 5 cosmetic sets. For all categories, recolors happen of course but for what game doesn't?

And in Dragonflight expansion they came up with a sort of 'battlepass' system that while only offering cosmetics and being on a monthly rotation, sometimes has mounts and pets previously available from the real money shop but now purchasable for currency that you can purely only get through doing different in game activities, be it PvE, PvP, fluff related to events like using fireworks in certain zones/cities etc. There is a capped amount of the currency which you can earn each month and a bonus free reward at the end of the progress bar, but the way they have balanced it has you completing the whole bar in 1-2 hours if you want to while doing the most simplest/quickest tasks, else it can be completed passively with just playing the game as you would.

[caffe_macchiato]

Bit of an off-topic for the thread itself but I find the inclusion of WoW weird in this list because it has 1053 mounts from different activities, some having been retired/unavailable'd aye but out of that only 29 are shop ones. Minions are the same, 1703, some retired/unavailable and 23ish shop ones. Lets not get into gear when for example my wow paladin currently has 644 different looks she can earn just for plate chestpieces while shop only sports 5 cosmetic sets. For all categories, recolors happen of course but for what game doesn't?

Because many (likely most) FFXIV players came as "refugees" from WoW when Blizzard was under sexual harassment allegations. So by default, if FFXIV does anything, it's better than WoW. They still have rose-tinted glasses and put all the other MMOs in the same box as "anti-FFXIV" products. Of course, they don't play the actual game, they just AFK and install illegal third-party mods while playing other games.

As the exact opposite (from FFXIV to WoW), I found the lack of shop content to be jarring. Everyone was busy playing the game. It's hard to understand why these people love FFXIV and hate WoW, and when asked, they usually go off on a tangent about American politics or bring up something from 18 years ago. It's never about FFXIV, it's about why they hate their former crack dealer.