I feel like i cant support Squex or cbu3 anymore

[StarRosie]

Riding maps are not available at release of any expansion

This is just flat out false. Gemstone vendors were immediately available at the start of ShB and EW and so were the riding maps. They were rank 1 in ShB and Rank 2 in EW. Rank 2 is 10 fates. 10. Which is enough to get your fate challenge log entry done and get you the gemstones to buy the riding map.

Just a few examples pulled from the XIV wiki.





The only riding maps that were not available at the time of expansion release were the Stormblood area maps. Those were released at patch 4.4. But that's likely because they put work into making riding maps available for HW and ARR areas at launch of Stormblood. Which they were.



Should they have done that for the SB maps too? Yeah. But...I doubt that was some nefarious scheme to force people to buy the Fenrir.

You're expecting people in XIV to have self control, when they can't even control themselves to not attack the devs over new races?

I mean...yeah? But then again, this is seeming like a tall AF order these days.

Also saying it's not mandatory, thats like saying, oh there gambling in the game but it's not mandatory

A cosmetic mount and actual gambling functions are two VERY different things. The Fenrir is not mandatory to play the game. That's just a fact. Trying to equate it to gambling is just...kinda gross.

So what you are saying is, people progging the same old content from patches ago, wearing Glam that is probably half from the store, grinding the same dold content, and doing hunt trains which is one of the most mind numbing easy and boring content to ever exist. No wonder.so many people sit in Limsa emoting.

Which is why I said it...nothing to really do because it's mostly old, repeatable grinds that are boring or trains which are mega boring. Then you have your % that does high end.

Careful. Don't break your back moving that goalpost.