Originally Posted by
leomike35
@ Darkshine. Well thanks for fleshing out your outrage however you still are on about this incomplete stuff. Perhaps that is what you might want to explain. Also thank you on that "youngling part" I dont know how old you are but you might be just a smidge older than I as I am 36. Nice to see older folks still passionate about gaming in general, now that I like to see.
Anyway, points are valid and the only thing I am fanatic about are good rpgs. You might lack vision and the courage to pay for something that will be awesome because I think we all agree that 2.0 is gonna rock so we can start there letting that be the thing we both agree on.
Allow me to expand on why I choose to pay to give you where I am coming from. I look at the sub fee as a way of putting money down on something that I think will pay off later. Not unlike an investor that will plop down cash for someone elses vision. Now while the returns will not be cash per se, it will be in the years of entertainment to follow. Playing a game for free whether it is good or crap was at the end of the day all of our call. We all continued to play and complain and now that it will come time to "choose" now all of a sudden others want to jump ship or pay a reduced fee because they believe the game is half complete. Now lets examine the 50% complete statement many are using to support their argument. Yoshi P said that content wise the game is 50% complete. He didnt say which version now did he? For all we know things can be further along than they admit. Is it likely? Probably not but it is one of many possibilities. The fact is neither of us can know for sure because last time I looked I was a fireman not working for SE.
I respect your decision to not pay due to you feeling that the game is not done it doesnt take a genius or a wise old man to figure that out. However, can you offer the same respect to someone who is not paying for an incomplete game, but are putting a down payment on something to be finished later.
When comnpanies announce that they are making a certain game and its something I might be interested in I go to my local game store and I put down some money if not all of it to reserve my copy. Or preorder so to speak. Well my monthly sub fee is two fold.
1) To support the only mmo that I plan on playing in the future.
2) To pay for something that I actually use finished or not it eventually will be done to most gamer's standards and I just dont mind paying.
Sorry for the long post but sometimes you have to give a bit of info on why we say what we say so that people can atleast understand instead of just assuming they know exactly where the poster is coming from.
Take it easy and lets cheer SE in whatever way we can for a successful FFXIV 2.0 shall we?