The whale mount is up on Mogstation

[Tyrn]

Couldn't have made this an actual in-game reward via the useless submarines or the achievement point vendor. Nope. Gotta get that cash money on top of the base purchase, expansion purchases, subscription, retainer subscriptions and phone app subscription and yet the game's servers still can't go a day without something going wrong. After all there's no reason to have something that rewards people for playing the game when you can just reward people for finding their credit card again and again.

[Stormfur]

$30 and it doesn't even have a unique song? Lol.

They should play this when you mount it.

[DevonEllwood]

I think this was the one originally designed for the Chinese shop, so I don't mind it being in the Mog Station. It's a little underwhaleming so I'll wait for it to go on sale.

[Jandor]

I kind of wish it was a reward from the last survey of submersibles, like the Bennu was for airships.

I was pretty sure that's where it would be from when it was first datamined. Disappointing but not surprising that it's cash shop.

[Duskane]

its a nice mount
much nicer then all the other mounts on mogstation which most are just recolors and the fat moogle.
account wide,2 seater (could have been more.)
reminds me of Link awakening.
i wonder how many more comments are gonna be about how this should be a in-game thing and not cash shop.

[Deceptus]

All my achievement certificates collecting dust.

No way to get it in game.

30 freaking bucks (2 months of sub time)

A whale for the whales indeed. Stop your Greed Square Enix. . . Stop your Greed.

[Rymm]

So they put a $30 mount on the Mogstation and yet their archaic servers can't even keep the game online for over a month and every event this year has been garbage with mediocre rewards? How the hell are their priorities so messed up.

I KNOW RIGHT?! How dare a company in China develop a mount for FF14 and implement it on their servers months ago and then, ON TOP OF THAT, SE has the freaking nerve to license it and make it available to the rest of the playerbase! Especially when they KNEW that they were going to be DDoSed weeks or even months after putting this in motion! The gall of them! You should just unsub right now, that'll show them.

[Jandor]

I KNOW RIGHT?! How dare a company in China develop a mount for FF14 and implement it on their servers months ago and then, ON TOP OF THAT, SE has the freaking nerve to license it and make it available to the rest of the playerbase! Especially when they KNEW that they were going to be DDoSed weeks or even months after putting this in motion! The gall of them! You should just unsub right now, that'll show them.

IIRC the Chinese and Korean publishers pay SE to make extra stuff for their cash shop.

A company in China didn't make it, SE made it, the Chinese company paid them to make it for them.

[SenorPatty]

Can I at least beach this whale on the shores of Costa del Sol and RP an Eorzean activist looking into the suspicious deaths of beached whales, only to find myself mired deep into a conspiracy created by the Monetarists, who promptly try to have me silenced only to be given a bridal rescue by none other than Hildibrand?




What, I gotta milk my money's worth outta that whale.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

IIRC the Chinese and Korean publishers pay SE to make extra stuff for their cash shop. They get paid to make it, then get us to pay them again.

Pretty much why I knew from the get-go it'd be mogstation. I don't think they've ever released any of the Koren/Chinese developed stuff as in-game rewards, but I might be wrong. It's a simple case of parity between versions. The other regions had to pay for it on cash shop, so naturally we will too.