Free to play plans?

[Preed]

Does FFXI need to be Free to Play? No.
Does it need to get itself out there and advertise more to get more new players? Yes.
Could it have a purely-cosmetic RTM store? Possible.
If they made a service that changed your Race/Face/Gender, they would be swimming in money (and it wouldn't be broken or anything because race is so superfluous now-a-days, what with all the equipment that evens everything out).

[svengalis]

With a new expansion on the rise I doubt they have any plans for the free to play model.

[Caketime]

Aww, lovebirds. You two are so cute.

[detlef]

Aww, lovebirds. You two are so cute.

If you have nothing to contribute, why post? If you think it's completely off-topic or offensive then report it and see if SE agrees with you.

[Caketime]

If you have nothing to contribute, why post? If you think it's completely off-topic or offensive then report it and see if SE agrees with you.

Answering a shitpost with a shitpost does not a good post make. There's no real way to contribute anything more to the thread now, it's been dominated by a huge retard argument, and to be honest there wasn't much point to contribute in the first place. F2P isn't a model SE will embrace overnight, and going by the huge amount of whining right here around us at the very idea, one could say this entire thread is one giant shitpost made solely to create a "debate" wherein two or more posters add to their post counts for no reason other than to toss out some cheap insults or post images containing tacos, or something equally lame.

Way to contibute, by the way. Golf clap for you.

[Xerius]

If a game isn't created from the ground-up being built around being free to play then the results of going free to play are almost always detrimental. Micro-transactions/PLEX systems could uproot the entire in-game economy virtually over night. If it doesn't do that it'll tend to hurt the developers more because RMTs tend to run rampant in free to play games. When creating an account is free anyone can make an infinite number of accounts. Plus, true F2P games tend to get fewer content updates than P2P and end up just going into micro-transaction store updates since that's where the producers make their money. Lastly, if Star Wars: The Old Republic has any lesson to teach it's that just because a game is free to play doesn't mean more people will play the game or that the game will be better. FFXI has some root problems that make it difficult for newer players to access such as the age of the game, no advertising for the game and the fact that a large number of the players are 5+ years old and have very little interest in helping newer players. </rant>

[Alerith]

If you're upset about the quality of the game and updates, and your conclusion is to make the game free to play, then you clearly aren't concerned about the game compared to your wallet. You just want a handout on one of the games you play.

If you were genuinely concerned about the game, you should be complaining about, and asking for, better and higher quality updates, not what payment model the game runs off of.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Just happened upon this:

http://dl.square-enix.co.jp/ff11us/v...IAL_MANUAL.pdf

It has instructions for all the things that a free trial account can't do. Hell, it doesn't even mention any of the limitations.

Of course, this is far from the first time that S-E's official documentation has failed to reflect reality or be properly compiled.

This is not how to welcome new players.

[Toadie-Odie]

Server maintanence could potentially go down the drain too if the pay-out doesn't turn out to be at least as high as what they are getting right now. I really don't want to see routine server outages.

[xbobx]

Server maintanence could potentially go down the drain too if the pay-out doesn't turn out to be at least as high as what they are getting right now. I really don't want to see routine server outages.

they would only do it if their research points at getting more money on a ftp model. You have ftp and a premium plan. Like swtor you limit areas like dynamis etc.

but either way, SE will do it if it will make more money, they won't do it if they will lose. All arguments don't matter. All that matters is what will make them more profit.
And if you think they care what you think, they don't.