Quote Originally Posted by LillithCale View Post
Inventory Expansion could not be done at Heavensward because of the PS3. It's been said many many times the PS3 was a huge huge factor in expanding the inventories. Stormblood will be dropping the PS3 which will allow the FFXIV team to upgrade their infastructure as needed in order to expand inventories.

I'm guessing, and apologies if I am wrong, that the mount you are talking about is the Moogle Mount. Now, I do not disagree that the price is OUTRAGEOUS. However, it has been stated that the reasons for the price tag is because it is a flying, two seater mount that is account wide.
Doesn't the PS3 work around inventory limitations by splitting the inventory into separate pages? In the case that even then it was limited, fair enough, but I don't see a reason to not give us an extra retainer while they sold a few extra. It's clear they knew we wanted more inventory space, but they opted to sell it in the form of retainers instead. I'm glad we're finally getting the expansion though, I do hope it's a substantial increase but I figure we'll learn more during the JP or EU Fanfests.

As for the mount, yep, it's the moogle mount. Have staff members ever stated the reason the price increase was due to it being a two seater mount? I don't see flying warranting an increase in price as that's also going to be applied to Sleipnir, and the price reasoning could because it's an entirely new model. Either way, a two seater mount isn't more than a slight bump into animation work but the price is significantly higher, as you said, it's "outrageous" to charge half the price of an AAA game for a mount. As for future two seater mounts, I'd like the option to purchase a single seater version if that's the excuse they'll roll with, I already have two 2 seater chocobo mounts and they're used maybe once every 2-3 months. :s

Oh well, as long as they don't slap on +30% EXP gain on future NPC clothing and use that as an excuse to charge more... It's clear they don't plan on changing their payment model anytime soon, better to ask for them to be more reasonable when it comes to future items, at least there's a chance they'll listen.