SE, you've been running login campaigns long enough to know what people are willing to pay for. Go free-to-play or pay-to-play. All or nothing; don't half-ass it.
SE, you've been running login campaigns long enough to know what people are willing to pay for. Go free-to-play or pay-to-play. All or nothing; don't half-ass it.
I understand SE has made the decision to offer an optional feature to the small community of English players would make them want to complain and moan. I doubt this is an issue to Japanese players whatsoever.
Would be nice if SE don't stop writing more stories for XI though.
I'll just leave this here. :3
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...B7%8F%E5%90%88
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Well, what I meant is (I guess comparing to this link you posted)... People always come back to complain...
Guy) I just want to complain...
SameGuy) Hi, it's me again. I want to complain again...
SameGuyAgain) Hi, why? yes it's me again! I want to complain harder because my opinions matter!
I think you posted 3 times on this thread already.![]()
I forgot some points I originally wanted to make:
If they want to charge for that storage, okay. It is optional. I don't think it's worth quitting over. It does let me know that no more free storage is coming. I don't think FFXI players are going to jump on it enmass. 2-4 more dollars a month for this game is a high amount to ask of from a group of players that included some who were still using the PS2 up until this year. Lastly, it's not even fair game to bring up the 'entitled-complain' card that some are doing. It's wardrobes/160 slots locked behind a pay wall. There is no defense for that LOL.
FFXIV is a game you can get away with a cash shop even after a sub fee because many of those kids were brought up on "free" MMOs and was a reason they were attracted to XIV after it was redesigned to attract them. I admit I was somewhat okay with paying 25 dollars for Odin's horse without any of the hassle of earning it. I don't really mind that kind of a cash shop when it involves SE. 25 dollars or some ridiculous extreme difficulty fight with KC drop rates? Yeah I'll spend the 25 dollars and am glad they went that route...
But here? I really would not complain about a vanity cash shop. Especially now that we have lockstyle. But to put access to 160 more storage and wardrobe to boot behind a 2-4 dollar wall...that's just a knee below the belt right there. It was bad enough with how the storage system worked and that they wanted money for retainers in FFXIV(don't even get me started about how mules as we know them here were blocked from working in XIV) I feel like they gave the go ahead for this because we really are top of the food chain now and that "those english speaking folk are definitely ok with paying for nice things!" I'm still flabbergasted that the Japanese lost access to FFXI PS2 and just could not find the funds for the last 14 years to buy a low end PC to continue playing. Just absolutely mind boggling. It's like quitting nicotine cold turkey in my book...
We asked for years, "how many people could really still be playing on PS2s???" and I think after the consoles went offline and the rather massive dip in population afterwards answers that old question quite well. It was a crap load of people still playing on consoles and there's no reason to not assume most were Japanese...
Last edited by Vold; 07-03-2016 at 04:27 AM.
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Precisely my point though, 2016 population on most servers vs prime had ~10x more ppl then vs now - you would have had competition in the prime and on a fully combined server you absolutely would have competition.
Back on topic though... With the advent of paid services I wonder how long until SE will fully sell out XI.
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Last edited by Jile; 07-02-2016 at 04:44 PM.
This topic still going o.O? Christ people get a grip feels like we are on twitter/tubmlr so much panic panic over something so tiny and optional. And no you wont see REM stuff on there how stupid you think the Dev team is?
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