So...about that white magitek mount

[Selli]

When I saw the white and red mounts for the first time, I really thought they were going to throw them into CM and Prae. Some people still do it everyday for the EXP and it is more popular now, but when everyone gets their battle classes to 60. Then what? It'll be unrelateable content again and not many will run it.

[Critical-Limit]

Why can't SE do what the OP said AND have it in mog shop later? Have all cosmetic things like this obtainable in game and buy able. Can even give the guy who farmed it a little extra something for doing it the hard way.

[CyrilLucifer]

Why can't SE do what the OP said AND have it in mog shop later? Have all cosmetic things like this obtainable in game and buy able. Can even give the guy who farmed it a little extra something for doing it the hard way.

I agree.

I mean, they can even make it a reward for something absurd, like running CM/Prae using Main Scenario Roulette 300 times. That would also, hopefully, get more people to run the Roulette.

[Risvertasashi]

Why can't SE do what the OP said AND have it in mog shop later? Have all cosmetic things like this obtainable in game and buy able. Can even give the guy who farmed it a little extra something for doing it the hard way.

So far, it appears SE's policy is that if it's obtainable in game, it can't be bought in the mog station, and vice versa. (Previously obtainable items are fair game).

To my knowledge, however, they've never publicly commented on this policy nor mentioned their reasoning.

[Hypnotic13371337]

When I saw the white and red mounts for the first time, I really thought they were going to throw them into CM and Prae. Some people still do it everyday for the EXP and it is more popular now, but when everyone gets their battle classes to 60. Then what? It'll be unrelateable content again and not many will run it.

if this mount was farmable through CM, i bet tons of people would return to it to farm it

[Critical-Limit]

So far, it appears SE's policy is that if it's obtainable in game, it can't be bought in the mog station, and vice versa. (Previously obtainable items are fair game).

To my knowledge, however, they've never publicly commented on this policy nor mentioned their reasoning.

I understand blocking people from buying gear. But I think people would be much happier bein able to obtain it instead of paying 5-20 dollars. And the people who want the easy way. If SE is worried giving the white mount for doing castrum will somehow stop sales? It might a little but I promise most people who can buy it probably will do it the easy way. It's a small price to pay to keep the entire base happy, and they can probably add more cosmetic things to the mog shop down the road. Getting day gold saucer dance should be MGP only for a decent cycle then bring it in mog shop to buy for people who want to dance but golden saucer isn't their thing.

cosmetics ONLY.

[Colorful]

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What about the dyes? Those have been added to the cash shop.

If they added these items in-game they'd be so absurdly difficult to get so they could entice you into buying them? 300 Prae runs? Heh, multiply that by 10. It also starts a bad trend, now they can be more free to put things in the cash shop because they're "earnable" in game, but much more difficult than they otherwise would have been.

[Risvertasashi]

What about the dyes? Those have been added to the cash shop.

That's a good point, although it's worth noting there's 2 distinct versions. Those my retainers brought back do not have the "General-purpose" prefix and so can't be sold, traded, etc etc.

However, they're effectively the same thing I guess...

[Catwho]

Funny how everyone on this forum works in IT department or as a game developer, producer or sociologist.

I wish I worked on something as fun and exciting as game development. I work on medical software. I'm procrastinating working on a data flow diagram to describe how a JSON string is going to be sent from a medicine cabinet to our inventory system. :/

[Eidolon]

I hate to say it, but SE's recent grimey actions are actually pushing me to a point where I want to unsub or let my sub lapse. It'd be the first time it'd happened since the game first came out - so it's not something I really like the idea of. Nowadays the main thing keeping me around isn't that the game's fun or engaging. It's that I love the people I hang out with - but I have them on skype.

To those saying that "Go ahead and just unsub. You wont' affect anything." take a look at SWOTR. People said the same thing when it was labed the "TORtanic"... game went F2P. Take a look at wildstar. Game went F2p. Take a look at TERa. game went f2p.

People seem to fail to realise that keeping your current subbase happy while simultaneously seeking to attract new subbers to the game are equally important endeavors. Slack in one and you might find yourself in a sinking ship.