Thank you Matsui

[Pixela]

[Alhanelem]

I thought the skeleton in the chair was you

[Tarmarkvar]

Your post just made me realize something obvious.

They are moving all our developers we pay for onto ff14, making us pay the same overpriced subscription for ff11 and giving us zero content from here on out. So we are paying their wages to work on ff14.

The subscription cost has been the same for 20 years. Because of inflation, it is actually cheaper.

[Rinuko]

It's sad to see we're losing Matsui-P trust in the May update.
Will we see some form of replacement?

[Pixela]

I don't get that at all, I watched a video interview with both of them and Fujito said he would not remove the trust from the game and now almost right away he does?

[DoctooOkay]

Wasn't the Matsui-P trust always meant to be seasonal? The original implementation of it was from Dec. 2020 - May 2021: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...99/detail.html

[Rinuko]

Wasn't the Matsui-P trust always meant to be seasonal? The original implementation of it was from Dec. 2020 - May 2021: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...99/detail.html

You're probably not incorrect. I think people had hoped for a permanent implementation now that Matsui has stepped down and meant a lot to the game and its development last decade.

[Pixela]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgGUiIwtIGQ

It's difficult to understand from the translations but doesn't it say in this video he wanted to keep Matsui-P?

Someone asks question 2 about it, 28:52

[Alhanelem]

Wasn't the Matsui-P trust always meant to be seasonal? The original implementation of it was from Dec. 2020 - May 2021: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...99/detail.html

It was. But for me he just made a lot of stuff possible that wasn't. On summoner I can do chains with him and maigc burst them every time, for me it was a massive solo DPS boost.

The bottom line is trusts that are just seasonal or associated with events should not be a thing, they should be permanent.

[Sfchakan]

They are going into maintenance mode to reduce costs to keep it running as long as possible. Inflation and other issues have been serious problems over the past 3 years and have basically negated the gains made.

However if you're going to do that you need to point it out in a better way and not make a story about the developers careers, you want your players to want to financially support you to keep the game alive and not be annoyed by nonsense.

In their Japanese only census information released last year alongside the anniversary festivities, they revealed that they were operating at about 30% profit over expenses. For a game without a lot of large development costs on the horizon, that's a pretty safe margin. Unless subscriptions decline severely, I don't think it's that much of a concern at the moment.

And, to be honest, with the amount of people multiboxing and megaboxing in this game these days, I don't see their subscription numbers dwindling too bad anytime soon.