In your opinion, should the game be free? Or cost less per month?

I'll walk away and not look back if this game ever goes f2p. Been there, done that- games that are sub-based being converted to f2p, it's the death knell for quality content.

However, if they insist on making us pay subscription fees for storage, the basic subscription for the game itself ought to be lowered, especially if a significant portion of the fees we pay are being siphoned off to other projects and not being invested in the game we are actually paying for.

Given the cadence of "content" added to the Mogstation vs actual content, you would think this was already a F2P/B2P game. SE probably just knows the rabid FF fan base will gladly pay extra for stuff that should be obtainable by simply playing a (subscription) game...

In my opinion, SE should take back their announcement and continue working on FFXI's stories again. Seems more worth my money.

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Originally Posted by Ayerinn

Given the cadence of "content" added to the Mogstation vs actual content, you would think this was already a F2P/B2P game. SE probably just knows the rabid FF fan base will gladly pay extra for stuff that should be obtainable by simply playing a (subscription) game...

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Really? Most of the stuff added to the Mogstation were old seasonal items that people actually asked to be added to the Mogstation in the past.

Again, the issue I see is that 3.1 came so late. If we were on the original cadence we would be seeing 3.2 probably in the next month. Even then the amount of content released in this game is still very competitive of an MMO.

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Originally Posted by Gardes

In my opinion, SE should take back their announcement and continue working on FFXI's stories again. Seems more worth my money.

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Ive seen on this very forum multiple people just today argue that FF14 is too much like FF11 and that FF14 should be more like FF11.

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Originally Posted by Gardes

In my opinion, SE should take back their announcement and continue working on FFXI's stories again. Seems more worth my money.

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Dunno about the story but.... there will be monthly updates.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...20/detail.html

Servers don't keep themselves up on lollipops and good wishes. If you weren't paying a fee, they'd have to come up with another way to take your money.

So no. The day it goes free to play is the day I quit.

This is the result of Team Yoshi running out of idea to keep the game fresh and challenging. Nerfing old content to get newer players up to speed is possibly their worst idea—why not? lets have more lv60 players that don't know how to play their jobs well! Meanwhile, pissing veteran players with grinding and pointless content. HW expansion was fresh for like 1 month then most of us realized, they didn't add anything new or challenging, just recycle 2.0-2.55 mechanics in 3.0. The new relic is just another joke to buy SE more time and for what? They are so hell bend on nerfing their own content with this vertical progression setup.

I was in 1.0, quit then return in 2.0, and now 3.0, SE returns to screw up mode...so I'm leaving again....IF they are lucky and fire Yoshi, maybe, just maybe... 4.0 will be good again. Keep your fingers crossed! I swear they are acting as if they learned nothing from XI or 1.0... so much potential to be better and they have to turn this into a glamour MMO.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Because too many players find the expected grind unexpected. As if they never touched 2.x relic questline at the time the steps came ingame.

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To be fair when I completed Zeta on Brd the grind minus atma both fate and dungeons was moderately enjoyable, even materia meld was not as rough. But if my math is right on my server it would cost a player 25 million gil to buy the 16 hq crafts and I think 27,200 law and poetic tomes, so 54,400 tomes total or 800 something Alexander runs. So when I look at this relic, even I a former Zeta holder before the nurfs get very put off by this current grind. It's like all the bad parts of Zodiac but amplified.

Yoshi-P already said somewhere that he'd rather shut the game down than go FTP.

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Originally Posted by Ruri

Yoshi-P already said somewhere that he'd rather shut the game down than go FTP.

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not to mention that if it was to go F2P the game will get even worse (as many F2P games do) and will likely die off in about a year due to the game being even more grindly than it is now to get you to pay for boosts from the cash stop.