Behemoth Mount - How do I reach 270 days subscribed?Follow

First of all, the Behemoth Mount is awesome. It the Veteran's Reward Rank 5 for 270 day of Subscription.



I want it. Specifically, I want it now. But will I be able to get it? I have currently 60 days of sub-time paid for. The new billing cycle hits on Monday the 16th. If I change my sub right now to 180 days, that puts me at 240 and I'm short for the Behemoth Mount.

People are saying you cannot change your billing period until current cycle is done. For those who paid for 180 days up front, they have to wait until those day are up to activate the further 90 days (or 180 more days) to put them over 270. That's even worse. Are these dedicated players going to have to wait even longer?

So nobody will get the Behemoth Mount on the 16th?

Wait, if you did NOT receive 30 free days, then you could get it by having paid for 90 so far and then subscribing for 180? Does anyone currently show 90 days paid for on Mog Station?

How about Game Cards? If I go buy 270 days worth of game time on cards, and apply them all, would that work? Can you apply multiple cards like that? Will they count?

SE, your promotion totally worked! I want to give you money! Please explain what I need to do to get the mount on the 16th.

Edited, Dec 13th 2013 9:09pm by Gnu

Ok, that sounds good. You were able to put in more the one at a time then?

If you can confirm this I'm going up to get them right this moment. :)

What my buddy is saying is the cards juts allow you to get Crysta. Can you subscribe further than 180 days with Crysta?

EDIT: I bought some crysta and the answer to this is NO. Crysta only buys 30 days at a time.

This situation is silly. SE, I want to give you money! Offer a 270 day option please.

Edited, Dec 13th 2013 9:43pm by Gnu

I coulda told you that about Crysta, I had a bunch left over from 1.0 and had to wait 30 day increments to get stuff

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F2P means there going to be spending more time making content for the cash shop instead of making a quality game. please see any F2P game for evidence.

no thanks on this suggestion, I would rather pay a sub fee and get a quality game.

How so? It's clear they have put aside the time already to make mounts, minions and stuff like that. If they'd sold fantasia they would have made a killing. Just because you charge for something doesn't mean it automatically means they are taking away from developing other content. The game is currently subscription based and they do that already. It would be no different if the game had launched F2P so I don't see your point.

I only mention it because it's the most popular reason people ask about the recurring billing. They want loot. They don't ask about any of the other reasons you would want it(convenience, discount, ect.). Seems pretty clear that regardless of the payment model, people would still want these bonuses and would be willing to pay.

Also worth noting that the content they develop is already somewhat static. They have a plan and they stick to it regardless of how many people subscribe. Content isn't directly tied to profit. You didn't see the list of features coming in 2.1 triple when SE announced their subscription numbers or the projected earnings for the quarter. Nothing would have been any different if it were F2P.

No offense, but Osode was about the ugliest piece of gear you could obtain in XI. I was pretty pleased that I only had to spend my WS animation looking at it

I tried, but it insisted on billing me in 30 day increments for Crysta :( Knowing me and SE, I likely didn't see some hidden option.

My friends did this as well. He started at ARR release.

So it's the NA players 1.0 players that got 1 free month that have no way to get to 270 days just yet.

I am questioning the lock-out that prevents people from adding additional time if they want to. It seems like it just the limited functionality of Mog Station that is causing this, rather than some decision by SE to keep people from paying additional money.




Edited, Dec 16th 2013 11:11am by Gnu

Purchasing future playtime time with Crysta does not work. You can only purchase (the current) 30 days at a time with Crysta.

After you initially set your billing cycle it should automatically be set to recurring. If your account has enough crysta for whatever period you set, it will be deducted and your subscription gets refreshed. If you don't have enough(say you set payments up for 3 months at a time), your subscription gets cancelled even if you have enough for one month.

I was able to reach 270 days, even though I played in 1.0 since launch (non legacy) and received a free month. The free period did seem to end prematurely from what I recall, but I thought I must have just read the details on it wrong. I was in all the US Alpha and Beta tests and Early Access (has to purchase a preorder code), if that makes any difference.


Edited, Dec 16th 2013 5:46pm by OnyxFFXI

When I saw that I was about to be billed I logged into mog station and saw there where 270 subscription day rewards so I changed from 90 days to 180 before I got billed this morning. I now have rank 5 veteran rewards. You would have had to change your sub like two days ago. I'm 1.0 legacy if that helps

Edited, Dec 16th 2013 8:49pm by nonameoflevi

Edited, Dec 16th 2013 8:50pm by nonameoflevi