Thank you Matsui

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I thought the skeleton in the chair was you

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Your post just made me realize something obvious.

They are moving all our developers we pay for onto ff14, making us pay the same overpriced subscription for ff11 and giving us zero content from here on out. So we are paying their wages to work on ff14.

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The subscription cost has been the same for 20 years. Because of inflation, it is actually cheaper.

It's sad to see we're losing Matsui-P trust in the May update.
Will we see some form of replacement?

I don't get that at all, I watched a video interview with both of them and Fujito said he would not remove the trust from the game and now almost right away he does?

Wasn't the Matsui-P trust always meant to be seasonal? The original implementation of it was from Dec. 2020 - May 2021: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...99/detail.html

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Originally Posted by DoctooOkay

Wasn't the Matsui-P trust always meant to be seasonal? The original implementation of it was from Dec. 2020 - May 2021: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...99/detail.html

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You're probably not incorrect. I think people had hoped for a permanent implementation now that Matsui has stepped down and meant a lot to the game and its development last decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgGUiIwtIGQ

It's difficult to understand from the translations but doesn't it say in this video he wanted to keep Matsui-P?

Someone asks question 2 about it, 28:52

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Originally Posted by DoctooOkay

Wasn't the Matsui-P trust always meant to be seasonal? The original implementation of it was from Dec. 2020 - May 2021: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...99/detail.html

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It was. But for me he just made a lot of stuff possible that wasn't. On summoner I can do chains with him and maigc burst them every time, for me it was a massive solo DPS boost.

The bottom line is trusts that are just seasonal or associated with events should not be a thing, they should be permanent.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

They are going into maintenance mode to reduce costs to keep it running as long as possible. Inflation and other issues have been serious problems over the past 3 years and have basically negated the gains made.

However if you're going to do that you need to point it out in a better way and not make a story about the developers careers, you want your players to want to financially support you to keep the game alive and not be annoyed by nonsense.

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In their Japanese only census information released last year alongside the anniversary festivities, they revealed that they were operating at about 30% profit over expenses. For a game without a lot of large development costs on the horizon, that's a pretty safe margin. Unless subscriptions decline severely, I don't think it's that much of a concern at the moment.

And, to be honest, with the amount of people multiboxing and megaboxing in this game these days, I don't see their subscription numbers dwindling too bad anytime soon.

I personally have a different opinion, you can already see the decay as sub numbers slowly drop. They have not helped their case at all by casually saying they are literally going to do less for the game and still take the same pay. The only thing left is for them to actually give the players the finger in some meta cutscene from the developer like they have in XIV. I think you 'll begin to see the decline more clearly once they wrap up TVR and theres not much after to look forward to.

One way people never look at it is that the sub keeps essentially becoming cheaper with inflation. A normal player might spend $13-25/month on this game. That means almost nothing in 2023 dollars compared to when the game was new.

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Originally Posted by Sfchakan

In their Japanese only census information released last year alongside the anniversary festivities, they revealed that they were operating at about 30% profit over expenses. For a game without a lot of large development costs on the horizon, that's a pretty safe margin.

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If this is true it's worse than you think. Do you know how you get the approximate actual cost of something based on its MSRP? It's not perfect but it usually comes pretty close:

Just take the MSRP and divide it by 3. 1/3 the cost to make, 1/3 profit for the maker, 1/3 profit for the seller. Obviously it doesn't work out exactly like this but it's a good rough guideline. If SE's income is only 30% over the cost of the product, a non physical product (the subscription, to the end user), that's a fairly low margin.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

I personally have a different opinion, you can already see the decay as sub numbers slowly drop. They have not helped their case at all by casually saying they are literally going to do less for the game and still take the same pay. The only thing left is for them to actually give the players the finger in some meta cutscene from the developer like they have in XIV. I think you 'll begin to see the decline more clearly once they wrap up TVR and theres not much after to look forward to.

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How do you gauge that? On all the servers I play on the logged in number of players seem to be same past 6-12 months

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How do you gauge that? On all the servers I play on the logged in number of players seem to be same past 6-12 months

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I wouldn't trust it to be more than projection.

Personally, I don't measure the decay in character numbers. They aren't reliable and are significantly inflated or AFK.