Carbuncle mounts have arrived!

[Tatsuyakai]

I'm honestly pretty disgusted with S-E over this, there have been people asking for these mounts since 1.0 and instead of giving people a chance to earn them they decide to nickel and dime people, had it been any other mount i'd have been more accepting but this is pretty sickening to me.

I'll be honest, it has made me doubt if i want to resub once my sub is up(if they'd stoop this low i expect them to do more in the future) but i guess we'll see.

[Theodric]

I'm disappointed. Not because they're available on the Mog Station but because I was hoping that they would be available in exchange for achievement certificates. It was implemented as a system and yet there is nothing new associated with it - so for anyone who already acquired the veteran rewards there's literally nothing for them to spend achievement certificates on.

[Alleo]

I'm disappointed. Not because they're available on the Mog Station but because I was hoping that they would be available in exchange for achievement certificates. It was implemented as a system and yet there is nothing new associated with it - so for anyone who already acquired the veteran rewards there's literally nothing for them to spend achievement certificates on.

I would have loved if they used the achievement certificates as a way to buy cash shop stuff instead of making them the necessary currency for old veteran reward items. This way people who dont want to do achievements can buy them and the rest can play the game and get them through that.

They're still making mounts available in-game. I'll start worrying when that is no longer the case. It's a common business tactic in the present day for MMO's to have optional items for sale regardless of the presence of a subscription fee. Is it ideal? Not necessarily - but then many people, if given the opportunity, would rather have everything for free. That Square Enix has multiple ways to acquire more money should not be a surprise to anybody.

And strangely most of the wanted mounts are stuck behind cash shop and most of them even look better. Look at the details of the mog mount or the carbuncles and then back to something like the flying couch. I am not saying that we dont get mounts but a lot of them are re-colors of one (like the primal mounts) existing mount. I mean I was positively surprised that we got that bear mount for christmas but I wished that we would have gotten at least one version of the carbuncles ingame and the other in the cash shop. I mean at least in the past we got the bird ingame and later with better music in the cash shop. Or the magitek mounts that are mostly just re-colors in the cash shop so unlike you want all mounts or just like the color better you dont need to buy it, because you already own a version of it. With Sleipnir, the mogry one and the carbuncles you cant get it ingame at all.

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Honestly in the end I am just tired of them saying that the cash shop finances itself and yet they feel the need to use such huge prices. Yoshida once said that putting the event stuff there was not for money making but for giving people the chance to own the items. But the prices are way too high, especially for the housing items. I mean they sell retainers, fantasia and the weddings through the cash shop. Those alone should earn the cash shop more than enough money to pay for it for years. Why not make those items way cheaper?

[Neuflune]

Honestly in the end I am just tired of them saying that the cash shop finances itself and yet they feel the need to use such huge prices. Yoshida once said that putting the event stuff there was not for money making but for giving people the chance to own the items. But the prices are way too high, especially for the housing items. I mean they sell retainers, fantasia and the weddings through the cash shop. Those alone should earn the cash shop more than enough money to pay for it for years. Why not make those items way cheaper?

I have all event items because I never missed a single seasonal event since 2013. But I agree with this. I'd support it if you guys made a petition to ask for lower seasonal event cash price, or exchange them for achievement points, or even gil.

[Indefiinable]

Does anyone else think the sizing for Au Ra and
Miquote is off. I have a Lala male, Au Ra female and Roe male characters and the mount looks awesome on both the lala and roe but my Au fem looks like she is riding the lala mount and that if she just straightened her legs she could just pick the mount up and walk him around. Like an adult riding a child’s bike. It bugs me as the other two look perfectly normal

[HyoMinPark]

Does anyone else think the sizing for Au Ra and
Miquote is off. I have a Lala male, Au Ra female and Roe male characters and the mount looks awesome on both the lala and roe but my Au fem looks like she is riding the lala mount and that if she just straightened her legs she could just pick the mount up and walk him around. Like an adult riding a child’s bike. It bugs me as the other two look perfectly normal

Sizing doesn't really bother me on my Miqo. Though she's the shortest she can be. I kinda like the sizing of the mount for her--it's like a giant Carbuncle teddy bear she can snuggle with. :3

[jameseoakes]

So when is this game going free to play?

[Theodric]

So when is this game going free to play?

Why would it?

[jameseoakes]

Why would it?

Well we've just had the worst patch the game has ever seen and now they make stuff purely for the cash shop while slashing the in game glamour items. These things cost more than my sub it's getting crazy

[Theodric]

Well we've just had the worst patch the game has ever seen and now they make stuff purely for the cash shop while slashing the in game glamour items. These things cost more than my sub it's getting crazy

What makes it the worst patch yet? That's completely subjective in itself.

Each and every time something new is added to the Mog Station we end up seeing this board flooded with people crying foul and making it seem like the game is in dire straights. I do think things are rather quiet at the moment though I am hoping that 4.2 will breathe new life into the game. If it doesn't, then the developers will be forced to reconsider some of their stances and cease playing things safe. Which may be great for the game. As it stands, though, even though we're in a dry period I see still people logging on consistently.

I'm personally taking the time to catch up on other games. Which is something Yoshi-P suggested, I believe.