Gil sinks

[Liam_Harper]

Think they are pressed for resources on developing assets like glam items ever since they pushed Viera and Hrothgar. The fact the judge armor doesn't include a split cape for races with tails is a pretty obvious component of this, as they are relying on just getting a single model out and having it sort of mold to fit most of the races.

Definitely pressed for resources. BLU only got a single carnival fight and no mount for the raid achievement, DNC/GNB got no Primal weapons in the last 4 sets and they're scrapping the Allied Beast Tribe questline for this expansion. This is after scrapping Hildebrand, a dungeon per patch, Deep dungeons, Ultimate, several seasonal events, condensing individual class quests and so on. Temporarily cutting some content to allocate resources to enjoyable priority content is understandable, but they've been trimming more and more and more lately...

Also, for those who already have the money to blow on a golden mount "gil sink" chances are they have the ways and means locked in to just make more money so even if the mounts do take a chunk out of their bank account they'll just make it back and, again, complain they have too much gil.

Actually not really. Gil is much harder to make in massive sums nowadays. Back in early Stormblood there were plenty of times you could sell basic white DoH/L lv70 gear at 1-300k and endgame gear over 1 million apiece. Some players amassed anything up to the multi-billion mark and even some casual players pulled together 100 million+. A lot of those players are still sitting on that old gil, but if they were to spend it all at once, would probably never see it again. I'm definitely in that boat myself.