Free to play plans?

[Kincard]

The XIV community is pretty awful but it's not much different than XI's early days, before people realized that being a server-renowned moron would have consequences. That has gone down a bit for XI because of the ease of catching up but that's never going away in XIV as long as the DF exists.

Also worth noting the free-to-play period is a week, not a month. That barely gives them any sort of useful data for if they wanted to go F2P (how many players would we have after a month of F2P, how does that translate over to $$$ and does that make it worth it etc). I'm not saying XI will never go FTP but I think it's unlikely and what they're doing right now certainly doesn't give them any sort of useful information.

I find it worth noting for TOR though, that if you actually paid attention to how the game did they made a lot more money off the game once it went FTP, the fact that a bunch of vocal disgruntled people decided to spam hate about the game and its FTP system isn't indicative of how well its doing (And TOR is notably one of those games that got infamously targeted by groups on the internet because they think they're a bunch of rebels "sticking it to the man")

[Anjou]

This is silly.

I played FFXIV for a while and the community there is worse than any I've seen anywhere, that's p2p.

You want to know what's -really- silly?

F2P FFXI. Hardly anyone likes the idea.

[Castanica]

You want to know what's -really- silly?

F2P FFXI. Hardly anyone likes the idea.

Servers are dead, very much like these forums.

Something drastic needs to happen, Square knows this which is why I'm on the server and typing here without paying anything. Unless you can suggest another reason for 2 weeks f2p? They never did it before yet here it is, if there was no value in it why would they be doing it?

More players that used to play have left than are left here arguing for p2p. These forums used to be pretty busy, now you're lucky to get 4-5 posts a day.