New Mogstation Items (Magitek mount recolours inc.)

[BreathlessTao]

It doesn't take alot of people to shell out to make the reskins profitable for SE

That's exactly the problem though, technically with something like the reskins that really require zero dev resource, one purchase already means profit. :/ Even if it is indeed a very small drop in the ocean.

[Ceasaria]

Hope they at least play different songs then the normal Magitek mounts.

On the description for the two Magitek mount, it said the song played when riding is Steel Reason, a Garlean music (when we fight against Livia, Nero or Rhitahtyn)

[Heliantheae]

All this talk about the mounts and I'm like, Starlight Tights YAY! I followed someone around Idyllshire for like five minutes trying to click on them to see what they were wearing. Followed by a trip to the Lavender Beds MB, followed by a trip to the Database, followed by a frowny face.

[Priwia]

I'm going to buy both of them : )

[MaethusXion]

And here I was waiting for someone else to mention that the two new Magiteks TOGETHER are the same price as Sleipnir. Ignore that Sleipnir goes to your entire account. Look at the entire breakdown(especially alt-oholics):

Sleipnir: 24USD for up to 40 mounts
Magitek: 12USD for ONE mount, 480USD for 40, and 960USD for 80(both white & red)

Makes Sleipnir look like one hell of a deal...

[Jynx]

That's exactly the problem though, technically with something like the reskins that really requires zero dev resource, one purchase already means profit. :/ Even if it is indeed a very small drop in the ocean.

The real point is that if they added these kind of things into the game at no extra cost as incentives to play the game. Acheivment rewards, gold Saucer rewards, commendation rewards, you can make these zero dev time items do real "Work" for you at give the players more value to the subscription. People are less likely to fall into the patch on (Pay for a month) and then dissapear for months until the next patch arrives. Getting your customers to stay subscribed steadilly "Should" be worth more than the cash shop is bringing in.

[Mishari]

I'm loosing confidence in this game and i start to think about quitting.
This whole cash shop shit is disgusting.

[Calypsx]

This could of easily been a reward for castrum/prae to encourage people to run them while also filling the duty finder for new players that still need to finish them. Hell it could even be a "run Main Scenario roulette this many times" achievement.

Why not at the very least let your playerbase actually play the game to unlock them?

[BreathlessTao]

And here I was waiting for someone else to mention that the two new Magiteks TOGETHER are the same price as Sleipnir. Ignore that Sleipnir goes to your entire account. Look at the entire breakdown(especially alt-oholics):

Sleipnir: 24USD for up to 40 mounts
Magitek: 12USD for ONE mount, 480USD for 40, and 960USD for 80(both white & red)

Makes Sleipnir look like one hell of a deal...

inb4 Thursday emergeny maintenance

• In the Mog Station optional item descriptions, certain text was incorrect.

[Colorful]

snip

I wouldn't be surprised if the dyes sold poorly, for one they're metallic and look bad on almost every piece of armour that isn't metallic and purchasing limited dyes is silly concept to me. Even in a free to play game you buy them once and you have the dye unlocked permanently, just one more way for SE to clutter our inventory.

If you have the know how you could scan the Lodestone for characters with the Sleipnir mount and get a number, but let's assume the player base is at 600k players and 5% of players own it, that's still 3 quarters of a million on something that took them 5 minutes of tinkering with development tools. They're releasing mounts because they're very profitable and for minimal amounts of work, should they be obtainable in game? Yes (as long as it isn't something absurd like 1m MGP), but will they? No, not from what I've seen. But all the new mount models (other than Sleipnir) have been released in game, SE hasn't crossed the line quite yet.

Protesting against those issues won't help unless we unsubscribe in mass, and I see that you're still subscribed. Yoshida clearly wants the resources to further his project, but the higher ups want to gouge the profits and use them for other projects or profits. As it stands, it's working. They're not investing more into FFXIV and yet, I'm still giving them my money, you're still giving them your money, every protestor here is giving them their money. It's hypocritical to say the least, I dislike the direction the cash shop is going in and yet I think about spending money on there, you dislike the server limitations and yet you're paying money for these awful servers. What does that say? That everything is fine, money talks, and you're not talking (but hey, neither am I).