Please No More Try FINAL FANTASY XIV For Free

While I do hate the whoel free trial / free login weekends thing... I'm not going to enter in my personal info even into a trusted site just for the purpose of this.
Its not that I dont want people to become hooked on the game and then subscribe. Its that we get so many free-loaders who wants to rush content during the free periods who ruin the experience for others. Its so bad I have to avoid duty finder for those weekends.

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Originally Posted by LeoMiqote

As i said my son plays COD AW without lag.

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This doesn't mean anything. For ARR, you are directly connecting to a server in Canada that is maintaining communication with thousands of players constantly, whereas CoD's servers only handle matchmaking. During gameplay in CoD, the players are directly connected to each other. The 2 network types are not comparable.

Heh, I for one really liked the free trial...

Road to FFXIV..
1. Hear people talking on podcast about the game...
2. Sounds interesting, looks interesting... check steam... 25 bucks... eh maybe, not a lot of money but eh... someday.
3. hey main page free trial... download, no payment info needed.
4. like the game, buy game from SE for 10 bucks (yay Xmas sale.)
3. Somebody on Balmung has a new mount (Sorry can't remember the name of the player who's RAF code I used.)

hell, this is the first sub game I've played that DIDN'T require that I enter sub payment info before getting into the game after buying the box... That was nice.

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Because people play with too many lag. It's impossible to play. I'm a player from Chile. Everytime square enix start a free trial game dutys become to slow and with many lag.

Finally, im requesting to square enix team from final fantasy xiv mmo online game NO MORE FREE TRIAL For Free.

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Lag is either your fault, or your ISPs.

Stop blaming others while the fault is on yourself. Ignorance at its finest.

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Originally Posted by LeoMiqote

My finally words to square enix team.
1. Give separate servers to trial players.
2. If not give preferential access to player customers.

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1. This is far too much effort for too little reward. Many games have tried this method in the past an ended up scrapping it due to lack of interest. People who get free trials will usually want to get a feel of the game's ACTUAL community or, y'know, PLAY WITH THEIR FRIENDS. Thus, this will never, ever happen. Ever.
2. This...doesn't make any sense either. Free trials are already restricted. Being told you're not allowed to play because you're not paying is a disincentive to actually wanting to pay for the game. Plus it's the kind of dreck that F2P games pull on their customers, and that's not the atmosphere FFXIV has.

And again as people mentioned COD's servers are used for matchmaking, and they're far, FAR smaller with fewer overall assets than the persistent world of FFXIV. Ever wonder why MMO graphics even from AAA companies like Bethesda are more simplistic than games like COD? It's to cut down on lag. You're not connecting to the same room as ~10 other people, you're connecting to the same "room" as ~5000 people per server.

How many of those free accounts are responsible for the 10,000% increase in RMT spam?

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Because people play with too many lag. It's impossible to play. I'm a player from Chile. Everytime square enix start a free trial game dutys become to slow and with many lag.

Finally, im requesting to square enix team from final fantasy xiv mmo online game NO MORE FREE TRIAL For Free.

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I`m also a player from Chile, and i have to say it , yes we have lag, but it`s just because we are pretty far from the servers, and there`s absolutely no proof of what you are saying, actually sounds like a pretty stupid reason.

I have a decent internet connection and according the Window`s resource monitor i play with 180-220 ms of ping which is completely playable, except when you have to dodge stuff, like on titan extreme where you need the reflexes of a shaolin monk...

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Originally Posted by Shadex

How many of those free accounts are responsible for the 10,000% increase in RMT spam?

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None. Free trial players can't /tell or send mail.

really?? this is gotta be the lamest complaint ive seen in any gaming forum lmao *facepalms*

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

It was about a year ago before 2.0 was released.

During that time Yoshi-P mentioned they have already planned the Main Scenario all the way up to 4.0 already so they have a plan on what they will release but not time when they will release the planned contents.

FF14ARR is planned to support PS3 until 3.X era and once 4.0 is released they plan on ending PS3 support depending on how things turn out.

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I just hope they learned enough from FF11 as to not be locked into a console. While the engine can always be replace on a pc its harder to do so for a port. Hopefully the graphics were down throttled, that way if need be, it can be cranked up in the future to extend its life. Or they could crash another moon into the planet and reboot it as a ps4, ps5 & pc title for 5.0.