Regarding: Centurio Tiger mount

[Vidu]

/quote @ Vidu

I didnt specifically say "no one is talking about it." I said "I've heard in-game complaints but havent actively seen posts about it" which, in my defense, I don't lurk the forums. I havent JUST started playing this game - my sub has been going for over a year now and I'm not even half way into those achievements. Hell, I'm not even 1/4. While I dont disagree long-term hunters should get rewards, and by no means should it be an "easy mount" but gating it behind hundreds of days and hours of straight playing this game is ridiculous.

I dont mean to attack you in any way by what I'll be saying next (and I also agree that the tiers below the ones that are required now are probably enough of a gate already - I'm surprised myself that they did something like this after they decided there wont be any more vet-rewards because people couldnt catch up...) but I feel one of the real problems here is that they gated a mount behind that people want - not that theres a mount or something gated behind it. People would probably care less if it were a title or a pet (or a less cool mount).
And again: There are obviously longterm comitted hunters out there who got there tiger "already" (aka: after years of active hunting) - is it only okay to reward those people with something you dont actually want?
I totally get the con here - if a lot of people want something, make it easy for a lot of people to obtain. Does make sense.
But at the same time it doesnt really sit right with me to take the stance of "Yes, give them rewards... but only something I dont care about"

(Still agreeing on "it could be the lower tiers required for this" - but I hope I got my point across at the same time xD And well... at the end of the day it makes sense businesswise to give people something they want but ooooonly if they're comitting for a long time...)

[alimdia]

There was a thread a bit ago about this, the tl;dr is: some people agree it's too much, some people think mounts should be rare for the sake of having rare things and want more nigh-unobtainable rewards added.

The likelihood SE will change this achievement is close to zero, as seen by Astrope (2000 mentor roulettes) and Honest Gillionaire (10,000,000 gil from levequests)

@Vidu, if they lower the requirements to the 4th achievement instead of the 5th they would still reward long-term comitted hunters without making it a NEET-only achievement.

[Clawbriar]

Like I said the last time this came up -- some mounts, titles and glamours exist for bragging rights. People who will want to spend time getting this mount will; it's why people to this day still farm for Nightmare even though it's in furthermore obsolete content.

Besides, you just know there'll be a recolour of this easily obtainable at some point.

[Unease_Lemming]

no seemingly special qualities (special music, double seater, etc)

This is the thing, right there. I think that's on purpose.

There is nothing much special about this mount. It exists for the most part as a trophy type item for the people that did put in the enormous amount of time and effort into obtaining it.
You're not missing out on much if you never obtain it, they're not locking anyone out of a unique model, music, animation even

I feel the developers have learned from the "mistake" of Astrope, which was extremely desirable due to its fairly unique nature as a double seater mount, and also required an extreme amount of effort.

[Esp]

Wow, I didn't even know this was in-game o.O

Plus, with the way hunts are, it's just easier to stay up for Ixion than try for this..

[Warlyx]

hoping this mount comes from another source later on , not touching hunts ever again , despise the whole system .... /sigh

[Theodric]

I think it's fine for some achievements to be near impossible for the average player to complete. I also think it is fine for certain achievement rewards to be rather exclusive and rare.

With that said...the problem here is that the tiger mount was added specifically due to players requesting it to be added. Yet much like with the Hellhound mount - which was also specifically requested - most people who asked for it will never see it because it is locked behind lofty achievements.

[Khalithar]

It should be around 200, same as the pvp and tank mounts. Hell the mentor one should have been 200 as well.

[AlisonDilaurentis]

Not all achievements should be easy. It's a hardcore hunt achievement and people have it. They worked for it you can too if you really want it.

[Lexia]

Hunts are really not that fun if you on a server were people want to pull as soon as they get to the mob so it half dead if not completely dead by the time you can get there. Which makes this achievement twice as hard then what it already is.