Premium mounts...Achievement Certificate...Grand Company Ranks...

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Many of the mog station mounts were obtainable in the game once through seasonal events. They didn't have to ever provide them to us again, because they were for the people participating in the temporary event similar to how it is with PvP. But if you're willing to pay, SE is willing to give you them after the seasonal event is over.

I want to say that the CE mounts and the EB mount are both effectively mog station mounts and should be counted.

Achievement points are in place of veteran rewards. They don't want it to feel too steep for a new player to reach all these rewards, so if a veteran player with lots of extra achievement points has too many, then that's just because they play too much isn't it?

With each Grand Company rank, they want to make it feel you are doing what that rank would involve. Now you are managing a squadron, so next would be managing multiple squadrons or eventually the entire army. At a certain point, it is going to involve a lot of work and SE has to ask if there is enough player interest in it to justify it. I don't think there ever was, so it seemed like a bit of a side project they did in Heavensward and early Stormblood.

There is content for Free Companies specifically, which is airships and submarines respectively. I never participate in these things because of that, so it results in excluding most players from it. It was the same when they made them required to get to Diadem in Heavensward. If you couldn't get there with your FC, you were being excluded from the content.

You say we should have a mount for clearing all 3 deep dungeons, but what about when a 4th one releases? They would have to keep adjusting it somehow. It doesn't future proof anything if they do that. Same for ultimates.

SE also does not intend for Ultimates to be something that the majority of players do. They once put on the lodestone that they don't expect most players will even set foot in it, but that it is designed to be streamed and done by streamers, so they encourage everyone to watch it on streams. So if they put mounts or significant rewards for it beyond just glamour or a materia slot, it would make people feel like they have to do it.