Thoughts on a shared subscription?

[Alhanelem]

No, this would be a terrible idea. For multiple reasons.

FFXI and FFXIV have totally separate development teams, they both require money to keep staff employed. How are they supposed to split this money exactly?

No. This isn't a terrible idea, and it's a very simple one. The idea is that SE will make more money, not less, from people with an interest in both games but are unwilling to pay for multiple full price subscription MMOs at the same time. You give them a bit of a break if they subscribe to both.

This is no different from, say, insurance companies offering a discount for getting different insurance products from them at the same time. They make more money if every customer uses only their services instead of one service from them and another from someone else. Further, going back to FF, subbing to both games means they're even less likely to be subbing to a competitor's game.

Think about this more carefully. If you're a big company and you're trying to find an easy way to get more money from your customers. If you have two things and most customers only buy one thing or the other, does it really not make sense to you that they would offer a discount on buying both? Yes, they make a little less money on the sale, but it's still more money than if they only sold the one product instead of both.


The goal here is to attract some users who play FFXIV, have heard of FFXI and are curious about it but are on the fence because of the cost.

This is like walking into a store and asking them to give you 50% off the 2nd box of chips because it's made by the same company, if you want both pay for both.

Uh, this happens all the time. Have you ever heard of coupons or multiple pricing before? Save a dollar when you buy two with this coupon! Sale price, three for $10, all [insert brand here] products!