I've seen a lot of positive and negative feed back in regards to the Chocobo Mount for the refer a friend program, and I've seen a lot of people run out to buy duplicate copies of the game just to get the mount with the intention of leaving the new account they just made to gather dust. There is a subreddit full of people trying to sell their recruit code and there are people who just plain don't have any more friends to invite. I'm in such a boat, anyone who had interest in the game is already playing and likewise, I myself was referred to this game and I've played for longer than 90 days as does the person who referred me. I'm not mad or seething with anger, but I am a little annoyed, and so I thought I might suggest a solution that has the potential to be easy to introduce and make a lot of people happy.

What if people with existing accounts are able to put in the code for the person who recruited them and then if an additional 90 days are purchased on that account, the items would be granted to the respective parties. Does it move more copies of the game? It doesn't, but it does have the potential to get a lot more people to renew for another 90 day subscription, which is still money in the bank.

I know people can't have everything in this game, and we certainly can't catch them all, but this is a situation where I felt a lot of the equal opportunity to obtain the mount was taken from a lot people because we've already referred our friends so this is just my humble suggestion to give others a chance at it.