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[FrankReynolds]

Can SE implement a monthly sub fee for FFXI so that we have to pay to play and you can use the funds to purchase the hardware required for FFXI to run without limitations? I know that will not be a popular suggestion but it might be the only way.

Wait, let me get this straight... Charge a monthly fee and then use a portion of that fee to support the game? Now that is a good idea!

Are you getting this Camate? Pass it along to the team. This is important. It could save the game.

Seriously though. You guys charged us $30 for a half baked expansion but the idea of adding a buck or two to the service fee (or god forbid, just using some of the current fee) in order to pay for much needed improvements is out of the question???

[Mostfowl]

Greetings,

There has been a lot of feedback asking to remove the party member limitations for various content so that it can be undertaken solo.

Below is a reply from Associate Director Yoji Fujito explaining the technical issues surrounding this as well as a potential solution.

So let me get this straight. You are concerned about lag because you do not feel your servers can withstand the amount of ppl who would participate in a piece of endgame you have rendered all but irrelevant so your solution is to only allow players to enter on certain days/times?

...because when you don't want a server to crash you make it so everyone who wants to do it is forced to log in at the same time and all do it at once instead of allowing them to enter on their own time....

...Um

...Ok

[Mostfowl]

Can SE implement a monthly sub fee for FFXI so that we have to pay to play and you can use the funds to purchase the hardware required for FFXI to run without limitations? I know that will not be a popular suggestion but it might be the only way.

SE is having enough problems keeping subscribers, raising the monthly fee would cause a huge exodus and making it pay to participate or for special access to or for anything would render it pay-to-win and surely be the final nail in the coffin

[Trumpy]

I dont care bout soloin salvage as much as I do Asaults or maybe Nyzul. Even if the requirement was 2 instead of 3 I would be happy. Then at least a dual boxer could get stuff done like Captain Rank Achieved

[FrankReynolds]

SE is having enough problems keeping subscribers, raising the monthly fee would cause a huge exodus and making it pay to participate or for special access to or for anything would render it pay-to-win and surely be the final nail in the coffin

I'm sure It was sarcasm. We already pay a monthly fee for exactly that.

[Ophannus]

What he's saying, for those that can't read is "layer zones" is a fancy way of saying instanced. If they made Salvage so that you can enter solo, instead of going in with 3 or 4 ppl in 1 instance, you have 1 person in 1 instance, 4 times. So having 100 instances with 1 person in each instance, vs 25 instances with 4 people in each is a vast difference in server powah.

[Demon6324236]

I would be fine if they set a limit to, say, 5 parties being allowed inside, hell, a reservation system might even work out for it in that case, kinda like Private PvP battles. Anything to get rid of the 3+ member limit...

[Vold]

Yes it was sarcasm.


I'm just tired of the issues that free MMOs have with their servers. If only we paid to play this game, SE could afford to improve it. Because they let us play out of their kindness of their hearts, they don't have to spend money to make minimal improvements. If we paid a monthly fee then they would be obligated to make improvements to their servers.



Anyways, I'm sick to death of dealing with companies like AT&T, ripping me a new one on their pricing and never sticking to their end of the deal to provide the service I pay for. I really do not need that crap here, too. I said it before and I'll say it again, even though it will never happen, lower my monthly fee to play this game since it's support has been severely cut. It's worth maybe 8 dollars a month right now, if not less.

[Mostfowl]

What he's saying, for those that can't read is "layer zones" is a fancy way of saying instanced. If they made Salvage so that you can enter solo, instead of going in with 3 or 4 ppl in 1 instance, you have 1 person in 1 instance, 4 times. So having 100 instances with 1 person in each instance, vs 25 instances with 4 people in each is a vast difference in server powah.

We understand what he meant. Its the solution that's off.

If you don't want hundreds of players converging on a zone and causing a crash you don't limit them to a 24 hr window. I'm not sure if it's a mistranslation, Matsui wasn't explaining himself clearly or if the poor guy is sleep deprived and just talking, but opening the zone to soloers only 1 day a week will assure server stress and a crash.

[Mostfowl]

Yes it was sarcasm.

Ok. On here you never know. This was a suggestion made by a few ppl pre-SoA and they were dead serious about it...