Twintania, displeased with how you obtain it...

[Gallus]

Ok, first of all, let me say I'm having a blast with heavensward, maps are gorgeous, flying is beautiful, dungeons are simple but very appealing. Everything is neat.

However...there's a small matter I'm not very "happy" about. When I saw the Twintania mount announced, as silly as this may sound, it was one of the things I was most looking forward to in HW (FFXIV was my first mmo, and twintania was probably my first "real boss", spent a lot of raid time trying to take that thing down...and it holds a special place in my heart Lol). So far I have accepted and said myself "deal with it" with every single "wall" SE has implemented in order to receive certain rewards (terrible drop rates, insane amounts of grinding or even real money through the cash shop with stuff such as sleipnir), but this time this thing is completely out of my hand. Nobody in my real life environment owns PS4 or is a PC gamer that I feel could ever even consider giving this game a chance, so it seems I'm completely walled this time.

"Please look forward to it"...looks like not this time t_t.

[DragonFlyy]

One way to do it is to buy multiple copies of the game yourself and "friend" yourself. Not ideal, but it's what I did for WoW to get the recuit a friend mounts since all my friends and family already played.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3ab4ai/twintania_mount_is_recruit_a_friend_exclusive/

Check in there someone already suggested that. Wait for ARR to go on sale and buy what you need.

[Teryaani]

I was surprised by it too. I was expecting it to either be a T5 drop or a gold saucer purchase. It would have been kinder to the general player base to have just put it in the cash shop like they did for Slepnir. We're going to throw game time onto our daughter's and my brother's accounts to get it, but that'll still leave how to get the other mount they added. Looks like my in-laws are getting FFXIV for their birthdays.

[Kyomagi]

honestly, i expected to be an eshop thing. i ended up buying two copies of the game and gave them away with my RAF, which both were used. cost me $20.

[Evergrey]

I got my Draught Chocobo (90 day sub) in like 3-4 days by posting invite codes here on the New Player forum. So you can still get the Twintania even if you don't have friends (not like that, you know what I mean). And remember, for each newly invited person (up to 5) you get 5 feathers, and you only need 15 (if I remember correctly) for twintania mount.

[Teryaani]

and you only need 15 (if I remember correctly) for twintania mount.

I hope you remember correctly because that's what I remember hearing too! =D

I think it's 8 more for the red draught chocobo.

[Shougun]

I got my Draught Chocobo (90 day sub) in like 3-4 days by posting invite codes here on the New Player forum. So you can still get the Twintania even if you don't have friends (not like that, you know what I mean). And remember, for each newly invited person (up to 5) you get 5 feathers, and you only need 15 (if I remember correctly) for twintania mount.

O_o that works? Where did you post this magical trickery? Friends either play already or are not interested (pre-friend campaign), so unless I want to make fake friends @_@ this sounds the best of the least viable options lol.

Edit: Huh, I suppose sometimes it helps to read.

on the New Player forum.

/shy

[Gallus]

One way to do it is to buy multiple copies of the game yourself and "friend" yourself. Not ideal, but it's what I did for WoW to get the recuit a friend mounts since all my friends and family already played.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...end_exclusive/

Check in there someone already suggested that. Wait for ARR to go on sale and buy what you need.

I'd rather not do that...apparently, it's against the ToS too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ruit_yourself/

I get 3 copies of ARR, I pay 3 months of subscription, I go through all the hassle of that plus the money, and I end up not receiving nothing and I cut my veins, so I'm definitely not giving this a try for my health's sake.

[Teryaani]

I'd rather not do that...apparently, it's against the ToS too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ruit_yourself/

I get 3 copies of ARR, I pay 3 months of subscription, I go through all the hassle of that plus the money, and I end up not receiving nothing and I cut my veins, so I'm definitely not giving this a try for my health's sake.

Don't tie them to you. Your family members don't play FFXIV because they hate games that aren't solitaire? That's just because they just haven't tried it is all! Plus Triple Triad is like solitaire! I mean, there are cards involved right?

I don't disagree that it's a pretty freaking extreme thing to have to do to get a mount. I'm just happy I know enough gamers that I can gift these onto.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I'd rather not do that...apparently, it's against the ToS too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ruit_yourself/

I get 3 copies of ARR, I pay 3 months of subscription, I go through all the hassle of that plus the money, and I end up not receiving nothing and I cut my veins, so I'm definitely not giving this a try for my health's sake.

In that post:

The issue is that you said the second account belongs to you, and that you created it so a friend could try the game.
This is account sharing, which is against the ToS.
There shouldn't be any issue owning two accounts for yourself and only yourself to use.