No, I would not pay for this.
(I would pay $1 for more retainers, however).
If given the option to pay, would you?
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05-10-2011, 07:48 AMRentahamster
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05-10-2011, 07:54 AMMack
No, just because I hope SE doesn't get the wrong idea and starts charging us tomorrow because I wouldn't...there is nothing to pay for yet.
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05-10-2011, 09:06 AMJinko
Not a chance in hell, ever week the game feels more and more bland, we desperately need content and its about time Yoshi-p started giving us info and not letters which lead to more questions.
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05-10-2011, 09:11 AMJoeking
Probably not. Runescape is better than this, and thats pretty bad.
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05-10-2011, 09:37 AMJynx
Would I pay? Depends on if this stipulation came with promises of a faster dev cycle overall. Sense it never would...No I would not pay for this game as of yet.
Eventually it will either be up to par, or drop of the market. I'm hoping for the later so we can enjoy the game more than we allready are. I enjoy the game, just not enough to pay for it yet. -
05-10-2011, 09:41 AMDavorok
No!!!!!!!!
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05-10-2011, 10:11 AMdarkstarpoet1
to me this idea is like going and buying a car that is just a frame. it has no wheels/transmission/engine/seats or any windows, but they say it will get fixed eventually. they give you no timeline on when they will fix the car nor even when they will put tires on it, but ask you to pay full price for it. sure you can go and sit in the seat, but you cannot do anything else with it.
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05-10-2011, 10:22 AMviionHow is A no loss? Have you not read this thread? Most people posting will not pay, thus if you ask for money they will leave and bam you have lost yourself a significant playerbase and why exactly will they come back? They will just ignore the time spend in other games they have gone to?Quote:
Originally Posted by rainfish
For me, I'm sticking around until TERA EU release, then i will leave and see how it is in the future but i'll most likely never get stuck into XIV again unless TERA does something drastically bad that makes me dislike the game. But im not going to put all my time into TERA just to leave it, and others will be the same on any other game. They will have moved on.
If SE said "Okay we're going to start charging in June" I would not pay, and I'd check it out in a few years to see how it got on, but i doubt even then it'd be up to par on what current games are doing.
XIV is now like ps3, it will always be behind, it will always have the lower side of things and even though it might hit a nice peak, it'll come crashing down by some stupid event (xi = abyssea, ps3 = psn hack) which will reduce the numbers by great. -
05-10-2011, 10:39 AMPeregrine
I would not pay for this if asked to. I would have paid back in October if they needed it, to support the overhauling of the game, but it's either got to shape up or someone has to put it out of its misery. No one should pay for this until they would gladly pay. If they can't take it from what it is now, to a game everyone would be happy to pay 14 bucks a month for without charging, just put it out of its misery.
This is supposed to be a Final Fantasy, a game that is by default expected to be better than 90% of its competition. It's not even an average MMO yet. Saddest part is that even if the battle engine, stat overhaul, job system, materia and dungeons are all back to back to back to back to back smash successes...
It's an average MMO at that point. A safe, 7/10. I would reluctantly start paying if all of those features come off successfully (they probably won't), but if the game didn't start improving to 8 and 9/10 quality...I'd stop paying after my 3 months of crysta ran out.
Game's a 5/10, and honestly I'm not even going to pay for a 7/10 game. That's not a Final Fantasy MMO. The level at which they are performing, and the level at which I expect a Final Fantasy MMO to be at...are probably two degrees separated right now. But that's better than three degrees of separation that it used to be at.
They have a ton of work left to do. More work than they've done thus far. They aren't half way to getting most people to pay for this. Yes, that is discouraging for everyone involved. Devs and players don't want to hear that, but it's the truth.
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05-10-2011, 01:55 PMTonyMontana
No I would not.
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05-11-2011, 07:43 AMNabiri
If given the option to donate something to this game each month I would. SE has earned my respect over many years. Especially with how they're handling this game after a rough start, and all the great communication going on thanks to the community reps, dev team and Yoshida-san. I enjoy the game, look forward to, and am excited about the changes to come.
Though I don't believe SE would even give us the option to donate to them right now, as they have their promises to keep and image to uphold. If they allowed us to I wouldn't think negatively of them. There is no shame in asking for help (though I don't know that they need it.)
I'm not really an MMORPG player... I'm a SE MMORPG player, and so if I didn't have FFXIV I wouldn't go play another game. I like FF best and I stick to it. I would gladly donate if if would help them make this game more enjoyable for everyone.
I've noticed a lot of people being disrespectful to others regarding their opinions on this thread. Mainly some people who would not pay insulting those who would. Though it does go both ways. There is no need to argue amongst ourselves. Some would pay some would not. No opinion is wrong or right. Those who would not pay, I understand your reasons and respect your opinions. I only hope that respect would be mutual. /bow -
05-18-2011, 06:16 AMShikyoPerfect statment!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinko
like the info from the battle system team we are all waiting for will be nothing but little tib bits of broken info that wont really explain anything at all and then u will be told to wait for the next piece of vague info and that u should be excited....
Btw imo the ppl that would not pay more then likely out weigh thoes that would, SE would see that and shut it down lol. I mean come on not very many play now and subtract the ones that only play this 1/2 finished game because its free.
Lmao I have most the loyalist on ignor so i didnt see any coments on ppl that would pay but I would think it a safe bet that it would not be very encouraging number to SE. =/ -
05-18-2011, 07:22 AMDizmo
Pasting this over from other thread, new content can take a backseat until the following changes are made:
There's no point adding content to a game when fundamentals are still broken.Quote:
-Optimisation of game engine and streamlined interaction with server, including reduction of time taken to execute actions (attacks should be instant, not have some irritating 1 second pause interacting with the server between pressing the button and the animation going off). Hardly anyone's computer can play this game smoothly, so it's no surprise there's hardly any players.
-A market system with a price history that doesn't involve searching for your item in a list, going to the particular ward, then looking for the particular player every single time you want to buy something. You should be able to buy it from the list you found it in, the extra level of complexity they added is bizarre. This makes crafting way too frustrating to even bother with for me.