It's so Awesome to See All the Cool Stuff Are Now in Cashshop.

[Axxion]

The bike is 34$ because the cost analysis team gets well paid and knows tons of people will buy the bike just like how tons of people bought the Gaia outfit or cruise chaser

The cost is outrageous

Yeah the price is crazy compare to the other ones.

As much as I'm sad that this mount is being added to the CS instead of the game, credit were its due: I don't think those are the real 2nd passenger animations, this video is 1 month old, I think they used a mod to have 2 players on a random 2 seater mount, and swap the model to this motorbike. https://youtu.be/-nuf_3W7wQE?t=120 The viera riding animation is too bad to be real, and looks identitical to the Ceremony Chocobo 2nd seater female animation

Another reason for the old video is because this was in the Chinese mogstation.

[Syln]

It's expensive like the other bike because of the speed boost it gives. Additionally it's tandem.
I only bought the glow sticks. :3

The glow stick is a perfect exemple of something that should have been an ingame seasonal event reward but ended up in the shop, even more than the spriggan when it came out during the easter event.

[Atelier-Bagur]

If we start seeing tomestones in the cash shop, I'm done.

Paid cosmetics don't bother me

[LuciferNacht]

who do you think you are lmao

Someone with enough money to not care about $34 since it's an awesome high quality item and it's always the same demographic of individuals voicing "financial" concerns. Usually accompanied by "I already have to pay the $12-15 sub feeeeeeee".

This isn't a high horse, it's just financial stability and fiscal responsibility.

For example, following along the lines of a lot of common comments: If you are struggling to pay the monthly sub (The sub is already too expensiveee), you almost definitely should not be buying things off the mogstation and if you can't afford the mogstation, coming to bitch about pricing and dress it up as anything other than FOMO seems to be the norm strategy for you peeps.

The majority of the player base don't use the OF though, so you guys represent a very vocal minority considering the success of the Mogstation. It continues to thrive and get newer nicer things regularly. FFXIV is continuously doing well in shareholder calls.

Similar discussion on all other form of social media including reddit, it's always a vocal minority that pops up in backlash and then dies down considering you'll all keep pouring money into other aspects of the Mogstation like the hypocrits so many of you are.

Btw went and checked out your lodestone, sooo many expensive Mogstation mounts! Interesting. <3

Continue screaming into the void! I won't be here to see it, but I'll def come back to the forums next time an awesome mount comes out that I want to tell SE thanks for adding to the store. Maybe we can continue then!

[LuciferNacht]

If we start seeing tomestones in the cash shop, I'm done.

Paid cosmetics don't bother me

Completely agreed, I would draw the line there at pay to win mechanics. I'm already a bit iffy on the extra storage having a cost but can't really make the argument for myself how that may be pay to win.

I'd full boycott and pay to win mechanics introduced in this game.

[Syln]

If we start seeing tomestones in the cash shop, I'm done.

Paid cosmetics don't bother me

I wonder how they would call their "token" ... Tataru's dime maybe ?

[Heavenchild]

The glow stick is a perfect exemple of something that should have been an ingame seasonal event reward but ended up in the shop, even more than the spriggan when it came out during the easter event.

I guess we will get something else with these years summer event.
Maybe shortly after the fanfest in early August.

This additional glowsticks were ment for the fanfest. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to defend SE generally. There is a lot of things going wrong imo.
But I also think that a lot of people here are a little bit to angry about just everything. :3

[Nizzi]

ffxiv players be like "mcdonalds is the highest quality dining around, see the sign? billions served. checkmate, minorities"

[Avoidy]

The price tag is obscene and this could've been an in game item to incentivize logging in and playing the game. I think that goes without saying.

All that aside, this mount's not impressive looking imo. Certainly not enough to warrant that price. They need to make a 2seater motorcycle like this:
If they actually made a motorcycle where your passenger clings to the rider, they could basically charge whatever the hell they wanted. All those people who treat this game like Second Life would eat it up. Just saying, know your audience. Nobody wants to ride passenger on a damn tire lol

But yeah, this is just your monthly reminder that Square Enix is just Electronic Arts (EA) but Japanese. We're playing a cash cow game that gets 3 major updates a year at best. And even if you don't buy the mount to protest it, there're thousands who are buying it just to have it, so nothing will change the trajectory this game is headed in. Happy anniversary! lmao

[Catwho]

Eh, this is exactly how they did it in previous years - people going to Fanfest got these items with their overpriced 2 day ticket. Everyone else gets a crack at them as cash shop items.

Is it at least account wide, for that much money?