Quote Originally Posted by Sesera View Post
But just because right now ff14 is rewarding player for doing high level content with badass and/or unique looking mounts while selling casual and unique looking mount doesn't mean they won't reward you with a reskin chocobo or whatever and sell unique and badass mounts on Mogstation in the future.

Yes, this might happen. But complaining about something that hasnt happened yet seems a bit backwards. Its funny cause the quality of WoW has also decayed with these very same business practices. If they start putting the best mounts into the Mogstation, then yeah we can complain, but I dont see that happening any time soon because 1) FFXIVs player base is objectively smaller than WoWs which gives them a lot less wiggle room for stupid shenanigans, and 2) They still have YoshiP at the helm. Love or hate YoshiP, he seems to genuinely atleast care about the game and its success. We dont have that in WoW. It has become ultra corporate. And while I rag on about basic B business practices and econ 101, there is such a thing as to extreme. If you start focusing to hard on the bottom line and become ultra corporate about the product, you will drive away enthusiasm and overall kill your product.

If we start seeing all teh best mounts by a large margin on Mogstation, and only trash rewards from Savage or EX, then I think we should get up in a tizzy. But seeing as SE has been remaining fairly consistent in their handling of mogstation thus far, It feels like the game is more likely to die before we get to WoW levels of cashshop. And to be frank, maybe that was WoW's biggest problem - they kept the thing going too long and got themselves to this point. Maybe the smarter idea was to end it sooner and focus on developing a new IP. Then again, Blizzard has been behaving terribly overall with virtually all it's IPs, so maybe its not just a WoW thing.