FFXI/FFXIV subscription discount

[Olor]

tl;dr, Camate, please tell your bosses to tell their bosses that some college kid on the internet says that they should really stop trying to push FFXIV onto FFXI players and, you know, push it onto people who aren't already paying them every month instead.

I second that motion.

On the bright side I had quit XI years before... and it was XIV flopping which brought me back.

[Vivik]

Are they? Because I thought the whole reason this thread existed is because we don't know if they're going to do it or not.

I think maybe you need to go back and read the OP. Maybe click on the link and look at the dates.

[Alhanelem]

I totally didn't notice that it now says 2012 and not 2011.

In this case, it's good for me, because the new team has been taking the game in a good direction, so it's an incentive for me to see where it's going to go from here. It's a good point though, that they really shouldn't have been trying to market it to FFXI players in the first place.

[wish12oz]

What happens if you have 4 FFXI accounts and 2 FFXIV accounts signed up to the same SE ID?
All 4 FFXI accounts are cheap for 6 months? all 4 cheap for 3 months? 2 cheap for 3 months? 2 cheap for 6 months? 1 cheap for 6 months? 1 cheap for 3 months?

Anyone know?

[Alhanelem]

Not for absolute sure, but I'm pretty sure it's a 1:1 ratio for accounts recieving the discount. As for how long, it's simply if those accounts are active when they do the check.

[Ilax]

There's no way in hell I would pay SE to play FF14 given how they have treated us as paying customers of FF11 right now. And there's absolutely no reasons for me to believe that they would change their mind set, which is:

1. We're right and you as paying customers dont know any better so just stfu and play the game the way 'we' (as in SE) intended it to be. Even though we now finally have an official customer facing public forum to collect customers' feedback, those only gets read by the rep and nothing meaningful from the feedback will ever be considered by the 'producers' in further game adjustments because we know what we're doing better than the customers who actually play the damn game.

2. We (SE) biased against certain regional players. When caught, we just stick our head into the sand and pretend the complainting doesnt' exits. When ask for a clarification, silence is our answer to the paying customers.

3. Your subscription fee will and can be used for development of a completely different game while we will gut the development team down to the core numbers only so the game would have some sort of fake progressions consisting of "new development of reskinned zones" and more "time sink events that 99.99% of the time only drops logs and ores or other meaningless items to the players".

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Amen

[xbobx]

This is assuming that in January when the subscription plan for FF14 comes into play that there isn't a mass exodus forcing SE to just shut it down like they should have done a year ago.

Sometimes it is better to cut and run. They are using their pride as a shovel to dig a deeper hole.

[Alhanelem]

This is assuming that in January when the subscription plan for FF14 comes into play that there isn't a mass exodus forcing SE to just shut it down like they should have done a year ago.

Sometimes it is better to cut and run. They are using their pride as a shovel to dig a deeper hole.

Sometimes it's better to keep going anyway, such that you might polish your skills and learn to make a game that actually is good. If they simply waited another year to release it (it was one of the silliest things i'd ever seen to release the game at almost the same time as FFXIII even if it was totally ready for release) we most likely wouldn't be ridiculing them the way we are now. Then again, maybe not, because regardless of the quality or lack thereof of FFXIV, the probability is high that if you're posting on this forum, you hate it just for it existing, whether it's good or not.

They still have a chance- All Points Bulletin, a game that had its plug pulled suddenly within 90 days of its release, has recently been re-launched by a new team and seems to be going well (though one of the primary reasons was the original developers lacked the financial capital to support the game long enough for it to have any chance of making a profit, rather than it just being bad)

[Dsherman]

What happens if you have 4 FFXI accounts and 2 FFXIV accounts signed up to the same SE ID?
All 4 FFXI accounts are cheap for 6 months? all 4 cheap for 3 months? 2 cheap for 3 months? 2 cheap for 6 months? 1 cheap for 6 months? 1 cheap for 3 months?

If you have 4 FFXI accounts, and 2 FFXIV accounts all on the same SE ID, 2 of the 4 FFXI accounts will get the discount and the other 2 will not. It's a 1 for 1 pairing of service accounts.

The FFXI accounts to receive the discount will be the first 2 due to be billed after the check is run. If the FFXI accounts are all due to be charged the same day, the 2 receiving the discount will be chosen at random.

Once you have received 3 discounts per pairing, the discounts will end.

Also, the whole promotion ends by May 12. No discounts will occur after that date even if you haven't yet received 3 discounts on a pairing.

So for your list of possible answers, it would be 2 cheap for 3 months.

[Xellith]

Just don't play till 2.0. Save even MORE!