Quote Originally Posted by Iakothm View Post
This is the worst idea EVER. Making ffxi free to play would destroy it 100%. Cash Shops are horrible and make people who have money irl the dominating factor over players who can't afford to spend thousands of dollars.
Those who have money, use it to pay in exchange for time gained and service rendered. Those who don't have money, use their time to gain what funds they are lacking or selling mercenary service. It works in real life too by the way. Apparently this works fine for a lot of games. The 10% of hardcore will pay for the rest of the 90% casual players. Let's face it, the hardcore benefits the most from the contents anyway. The methods we have right now, the 90% casual is paying for the 10% so they can enjoy the content first while the majority pretty much still be happily doing what they have been doing, which is not much of anything in the game.