Quote Originally Posted by Bluestar2kx View Post
Sites have been saying FFXI should/will go F2P as sub numbers have dropped since F2P became a thing.
Personally, I hope it never turns into a cash shop, I'd rather pay a higher subscription rate then deal with that stuff, if it turns into farmville pay/play model, I'm gone. Hell with that crap.
Sure it brings in people, because anyone can play, but it brings in the worst people and it's the worst for the people (you'd pay far more then if SE upped the sub price to 16$ base with 1 character +2$ per mule), and I don't think it would do any favors for FFXI's community. Plus if you think the nerfs they do now are bad, wait until those people start up a ruckus....
Ugh. I know. I hate Freemium. I play Simpsons Tapped Out on my mobile and it was awful. I thought to myself "this is kind of a fun game, sort of Simpsons flavored Simcity. I would pay a decent price, say $30-$50, to have a version of this where I could build everything". But it's nearly impossible to do that with just the free version. You need to buy donuts to get a lot of things. I did eventually find a hacked copy that let me cook up about 80,000 donuts and millions of in game currency, so I enjoy it as is.