The event is now live. :O

[WeebPolice]

It's unfathomable how lazy this is for a 10th anniversary event.

People will probably white knight it super hard anyway, given that the rising is an event quite literally explicitly designed to exploit peoples parasocial feelings towards the developers.

The mount doesn't even have a transform animation. It's lazier than most normal mounts; They just flip a flag that turns your character invisible after you do your stupid generic whistling animation to summon it. Yikes.

True, it's been very disappointing so far. Hard evidence of SE cutting corners.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I find it funny that people think hiding your character on the Rising Phoenix is "laziness" or "cutting corners" for some reason. It's a reskin of an existing mount. All of the character poses for riding it already exist. They just decided for whatever reason to have players "become" the Phoenix instead of riding it. It's arguably a weird choice, but there's no corner cutting involved.

Personally I think they should've let us carry another player while turned into the Phoenix, making it effectively a two-seater, but no such luck.

[Elissar]

Personally I think they should've let us carry another player while turned into the Phoenix, making it effectively a two-seater, but no such luck.

Yeah but to carry another player you need to know another player...ultimate+ tier challenge.

[MsQi]

I find it funny that people think hiding your character on the Rising Phoenix is "laziness" or "cutting corners" for some reason. It's a reskin of an existing mount. All of the character poses for riding it already exist. They just decided for whatever reason to have players "become" the Phoenix instead of riding it. It's arguably a weird choice, but there's no corner cutting involved.

Personally I think they should've let us carry another player while turned into the Phoenix, making it effectively a two-seater, but no such luck.

Becoming a two seater mount would also fit with the theme of the storyline.

[LittleImp]

The cynic in me loves to imagine them sitting down as a team in their corporate writers room cooking up this gross parasocial bait.

What's lazy about it? I actually want to know. It can't be about not making animations for our characters to be atop the mount, because those already exist.

It's lazy because it's a bad reused asset mount. It takes substantially less effort and manhours to create something like this, than it does a mount with a unique model and custom animations. They're on two layers of reuse, given that this enemy archetype is already available as a mount lol.

Now to be fair, the art team is probably hard at work creating new custom models and animations for whatever the next 30usd mogstation mount is, so didn't have much time to work on this one.

I guess being a reskin, but so are more than half of the mounts in most MMOs, so that doesn't really stick out to me either.

Yeah, a huge portion of the in-game obtainable mounts are low effort enemy model reskins. Woohoo.

[WeebPolice]

The cynic in me loves to imagine them sitting down as a team in their corporate writers room cooking up this gross parasocial bait.

And it works, too, which is the funny thing. FF fans will be like: "wow, this really resonates with me!!!1111"

[MsQi]

The cynic in me ...

Cyniception

[Iscah]

I guess being a reskin, but so are more than half of the mounts in most MMOs, so that doesn't really stick out to me either.

It's a weird situation calling it a reskin, because technically the Phoenix is the original use of the model; it's just not the first instance of the model to get turned into a mount.

[NekoMataMata]

I despise how they didn't add CC to the pvp list. I mean I don't know, maybe if you want people to play FL that badly you could make some changes that actually improve it, instead of trying to harm CC's queues while buffing FL's with the event.

[Nebelheim]

I despise how they didn't add CC to the pvp list. I mean I don't know, maybe if you want people to play FL that badly you could make some changes that actually improve it, instead of trying to harm CC's queues while buffing FL's with the event.

I would also prefer to do cc over frontlines for moogle tomes.