FFXIV Monthly fee cheaper than FFXI ?! [+ The reduced price for playing FFXI + FFXIV]

[Hercule]

Hi,

So i noticed this on my EU Square-Enix Account,

For 1 character:

-FFXI : 12,95€ / Month

-FFXIV : 9,99€ / Month

So, the new game is cheaper than the old?
At least I hope SE will continue to work on FFXI new content like their do for FFXIV then...

And what about the "Special price" for people that playing FFXI and FFXIV?
I dont see any "Spécial price" on my Square-Enix account.

[Vold]

They need money. Rough economic times and all. $500 dollar lunches don't grow on trees. You understand.

[Eri]

Hi,

So i noticed this on my EU Square-Enix Account,

For 1 character:

-FFXI : 12,95€ / Month

-FFXIV : 9,99€ / Month

The better Game is more expensive? :P

Seriously though i dont get it.

Outside of THAT i didn't see special fees for ppl playing both...
wasn't that promised thu?

I won't bother with 14 anyway for now.

[Hercule]

The better Game is more expensive? :P

Seriously though i dont get it.

Outside of THAT i didn't see special fees for ppl playing both...
wasn't that promised thu?

I won't bother with 14 anyway for now.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/ffxiv/

Players with both an active FINAL FANTASY XI service account and an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account will be able to discount their FINAL FANTASY XI monthly service fees from $12.95 to $7.00 for up to three months.

(Notice that SE added the "For up to three months" recently, or i missed something, ill find proof of this.)
By the way about price i love to see 1$ = 1€, EU peoples are always fucked

I always paid the 12,95€ (+1€ Per mule) but ok was only for 3 months not a big deal but FFXIV cheaper than FFXI is hard to understand usualy an old MMORPG come cheaper or even free to play when a new one coming out, so i can understand FFXI price can be the same as FFXIV but more expensive?!

[Hercule]

They need money. Rough economic times and all. $500 dollar lunches don't grow on trees. You understand.

for us either

[cloverlief]

Actually FFXIV is about the same price as the reduce (discounted) price as ffxi. So after the discount 14 will be more expensive.
12.95 includes 1 character on ffxi
9.99 does not include any characters and well since 1 character is required it goes up.
3.00 The cost of a character
9.99 +3.00 = 12.99 so technically at the discounted price ffxiv is more expensive by a tad, after the discount it will be a couple bucks more.
For now that includes your 2 retainers.
In the future though retainers will be $1 each (will the 1st one be free?).
After the discount ffxiv with 2 retainers if 1st is free will be 11.99 +3 +1=15.99 or about 3.05 more.
There is no savings going with ffxiv in any of these cases.

[Runespider]

They are being kinda disrespectful with the prices for FFXIV, whats the point sayign the game costs 9.99 when you can't play without paying the extra for the character (and more for the retained/ah crap systems)lol It's like a car hire firm having an advert saying cheapest chr hire prices ever! then a little * at the bottom with extra £50 for each tyre.

They got in trouble the first time disrespecting their prospective playerbase and now they are doing it again.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

And what about the "Special price" for people that playing FFXI and FFXIV?
I dont see any "Spécial price" on my Square-Enix account.

They discontinued that. The only thing you get is the fact that you're spending more money, and discoutn will not offset the fact that you are already spending more money in an attempt to save money.

[Olor]

Let's just leave this at #facepalm

[Alhanelem]

The $9.99 rate is only for between now and the revamped version of the game being released around the end of 2012. When FFXIV 2.0 comes out (with the redone server and graphics engines and revamped areas that aren't copypasta'd anymore), the price will (most likely) return to $12.99/mo plus any additional character/retainer costs.

They discontinued that.

No, they didn't, but it's only a temporary discount. They will check your account once in the middle of each month from now to april (4 checks), and if both subscriptions are active, the FFXI sub price will be discounted for the next month, up to 3 times total.