Thoughts on a shared subscription?

[Alhanelem]

Most XIV players will not like XI and will never like it, it is so alien and punishing an experience from XIV.
Most XI players do not like XIV and will never like it, it is so alien an experience from XI (almost all XI players have played XIV, we do not like it).

This is an assumption, not a fact, amd I've personally encountered many people curious about the game but they are deterred when I tell them "It still has a subscription."

Almost everyone that makes this argument saying "it's good business to charge less because more people will buy your product" have no idea what they are talking about most of the time

Except that's not the argument I was making. You are speaking of unilatirally changing the price of something for everyone, which works under certain circumstances up to a point until you hit the sweet spot, which is what the final price of a product usually is.

We're talking about a promotional price here- A price that requires conditions to be met, in this case, subscribing to two games. Not everyone is paying this promotional price and this is what makes it effective. You gain the customers that demand a lower price while still having the customers who were fine to begin with. If there's a shared subscription discount, now you have (for example) 1000 people paying you $20 a month instead of $12.95. Yes, you aren't getting $25.90, but you wouldn't have been getting that anyway because they would not have done both subs otherwise.

This is what you seem to be missing. Further, this particularly benefits former players of FFXI who are now playing FFXIV. They might want to play FFXI again but don't really want to pay for subs. I personally do this grudgingly, because I have the money to spare, but I still feel like I shouldn't have to.

I agree that FFXI is a niche experience, but it has its share of former players who would consider playing again if the value proposition was better, along with people playing FFXIV who are curious about what old MMOs were like.

Looking at what happens when you throw more randoms at a single server, I don't know that this is a good thing at this point to thrust thousands of new players used to p2win style MMOs into the FFXI environment. Just a recipe for more gilbuyers filling RMT and merc pockets, making more servers be garbage like Asura.

Well, they shouldn't be thrown at a single server. Which would be a bad idea even if Asura wasn't the way it is already.

Also, FFXIV is not a pay to win MMO.