What would it take to make you unsub from xiv

[Eisi]

It's a reskin of mounts that already existed, complete with player poses. There's exactly zero new work to put in to put a player on it. They just chose not to. It's a design choice, not a "moneysaver".

Good point, I was wrong about this.

Still if they wanted to make us transform into a Phoenix they should have included a transformation animation, which they chose not to create because it would have cost them. To then forgo the option of just including the player models again and make it an actual mount shows bad judgement, as they thought the transformation without transforming was somehow cool. Terrible sense of aesthetics.