FFXI/FFXIV subscription discount

[Airget]

So it seems the following is SE's plan to give a "discount" for those who want to play both games

http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/top...xiv/index.html

o_O Hurray so I can do this 3 times and that's it lol. Not much a discount to encourage people who might have interest in both. So ya, let's see if I have the math right

On january if you only have one character that's 12.99
Then on March/April/May it'll be 7 dolalrs each.

So For XI instead of paying 51.96 it'll be 33.99

Now if you pickup the 90 day pack for XIV that would be 5.99(17.97) then add in 3 dollars for each 30 day char slot for 26.97.

So basically if you are interested in trying out XIV for 3 months while keeping XI active the difference will be 9 dollars. 60.96 would be the total compared to the 51.96 you are paying now.

While honestly SE should have done all this number crunching if they wanted to entice people to play but to put it in perspective you can think of it as playing XIV for 3 dollars a month if you are curious to see the changes within the three months.

While I think it would be wiser to come up with a more stable discount it's better then nothing and I figured I"d throw it out there since it is a good deal honestly if you wanna dink around in another realm for a bit lol. Never know maybe the changes they make in the next three months might be interesting.

[Alhanelem]

it's currently unknown exactly what will happen, but I hope they don't think just because people tested their game for so long that they can go back on the combo discount they originally promised.

[Vivik]

it's currently unknown exactly what will happen, but I hope they don't think just because people tested their game for so long that they can go back on the combo discount they originally promised.

The combo discount originally offered was never going to be permanent in the first place. It was always only going to be for the three month period. The actual discount plan itself has not changed at all. It was always going to be 7 dollars for ffxi while both subs were active for three months.

Now I know you're the type of person who needs proof for everything so I'm sure if you Google a bit you can find the old discount article.

Edit: did not find the SE article but this should be good enough. Link

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Wow, XI players get a "discount" for a game they've been financially supporting for well over a year now to begin with. How generous.

In other news, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Luvbunny]

Wow, XI players get a "discount" for a game they've been financially supporting for well over a year now to begin with. How generous.

In other news, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Pretty much - they should at least give current FF11 players a chance to add FF14 for a mere one dollar. It is so cheap that most people will probably end up doing it just to see what's the fuss about - and if the updates are any good. And get the current FF11 players hooked and ready for transition when Version 2.0 is launched end of next year. By then, the game has become an investment in time and will be hard to just stop play. Not to mention seeing what is coming to FF11 vs FF14, which is a huge difference in tone, attitude, and vision.

Check Yoshi's regular letters on what he planned for FF14 and you will see what I am talking about. The man even made youtube videos detailing all of it. This guy gives it all when it comes to communicating and making sure that the players are well taken care of.

[Greatguardian]

The fact that the discount is only temporary speaks volumes to their intentions with this.

It's not about enticing players to play both games. It's just about pulling subscribers from one game to the other as opposed to trying to attract a new fan base.

[Kincard]

The fact that the discount is only temporary speaks volumes to their intentions with this.

It's not about enticing players to play both games. It's just about pulling subscribers from one game to the other as opposed to trying to attract a new fan base.

I'm more partial to it just being plain incompetence myself, since proposing a plan to spend millions of dollars making a new game to keep the same subscribers you already had is either going full retard or incredibly generous.

Clearly it's the latter!

[Olor]

The fact that the discount is only temporary speaks volumes to their intentions with this.

It's not about enticing players to play both games. It's just about pulling subscribers from one game to the other as opposed to trying to attract a new fan base.

Well it will fail hard if that is their intention. I will probably do this though, because I do like to check out patches and I've essentially said over and over again that if they offered the combo I would give it a whirl. Depends on how much the game sucks once they remove 75% of all the skills from every class...

[Greatguardian]

Well it will fail hard if that is their intention. I will probably do this though, because I do like to check out patches and I've essentially said over and over again that if they offered the combo I would give it a whirl. Depends on how much the game sucks once they remove 75% of all the skills from every class...

It's pretty much the underlying problem with all SE overseas marketing tactics.

They don't advertise for their god damn MMOs. They just expect their existing fanbase to keep buying their shit over and over and over again. This is a big part of why the fresh blood for FFXI dried up so quickly. Practically no one knew that this game existed outside of existing SE/FF fans. At this point, aside from the occasional rare exception, the only "New" players are just old players who are trying the game out again. There is no new blood, no influx into the market, nothing - and SE does not even try to change this.

Hell, some of the only people who knew about FFXIV before it became a huge, media-spanning flop, were FFXI players and FF fans (eg, existing market base again). Until XIV flopped hardcore, it was fairly clear to all parties involved that SE's plan was to just slowly phase players over from XI over to XIV. This makes absolutely no sense to me. Why do they insist on rearranging their market rather than expanding it? They're not actually gaining any subscribers by having people swap MMOs.

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.

[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.