Scared about ARR

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Originally Posted by Lirion

I don't think you have anything to fear. Here is what Yoshi said about free to play for ARR.



http://www.examiner.com/article/squa...t-free-to-play

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Of all the articles and interviews with Yoshi about ARR I must have missed that one, but knowing there are no investors involved, I'm really feeling much more relaxed!

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Originally Posted by Issachar

SQEX is too closed-minded to go F2P. FFXI's still making money somehow. They think ARR will magically have a great playerbase (lol). Yet let's look at Sega and PSO2. F2P with cash services and it is making boatloads of cash.

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SQEX is too closed-minded because FFXIV is not a FPS! And they're too closed-minded because theres no Tauren race. And they're too closed-minded because I can't be a necromancer!

Yeah, how dare they not make this game have everything I want!

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Originally Posted by Lirion

I don't think you have anything to fear. Here is what Yoshi said about free to play for ARR.



http://www.examiner.com/article/squa...t-free-to-play

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That was good to know until I read negative messages from Facebook people. >.<

Ugh, fk it I am gonna ignore all haters now.

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Originally Posted by Issachar

SQEX is too closed-minded to go F2P. FFXI's still making money somehow. They think ARR will magically have a great playerbase (lol). Yet let's look at Sega and PSO2. F2P with cash services and it is making boatloads of cash.

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Just saying reputation > cash
going f2p = - reputation

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Originally Posted by Issachar

SQEX is too closed-minded to go F2P. FFXI's still making money somehow. They think ARR will magically have a great playerbase (lol). Yet let's look at Sega and PSO2. F2P with cash services and it is making boatloads of cash.

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PSO a different kind of game its built around taking your money like planetside2. watch when sega starts to lose player base there gonna pull the plug like PSO.

Final Fantasy title should be no problem staying P2P... look at how many weirdo's out there buying the same Final Fantasy 1 every time it's re-released..... (I'm one of those weirdo's... orz) FF has a huge fan base, I bet it won't go F2P.

i played f2p games that suck terribly, but are still going.
even if ff14 went f2p it still wouldn't fail. 1.0 was fail, and still had quite a lot of players.
f2p games make company more money. but hopefully they wouldn't put out stupid cash items, like increase meld chance, and you cant break item if you fail meld. that would quickly make IRL rich people have 5x meld sets.
i'm not worried anyways.
reason tera is f2p is i guess simply not many ppl play it, and it wasn't such a known game anyways. Many people i mentioned it to, had never heard of it. FF is very known brand, so i doubt it's gonna go the same way.

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Originally Posted by Renen

Any smart player will tell you that F2P is more expensive than P2P.
Go look on GW2... Currently 1/2 of the players agree that the company nerfs every single way of making money (and bans anyone who "exploits" any mistake the company makes), just because you can pay real money to convert it to game gold.
I hope FF14 never goes F2P

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That's not necessarily true if you don't mind playing a game casually not having all the content available maybe log in 2-4 times a month then F2P is a better option.

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Originally Posted by Dannythm

Just read that Tera is going free to play in the US and EU, and people are commenting that they give ARR from 4 to 8 months after release to follow the same route as all the other MMO's the last years...

I fear for the mindset of the population, not about the quality of the game, that may force it's demise...

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Heeeh.. I dunno. Never played Tera so I can't make a judgement off of it, but I didn't see that game being real popular anyway. Some of these companies pay reviewers, streamers, etc to hype their game up sometimes which I felt Tera had a lot of. Just overrated hype..

Another thing that FFXIV has on its side is the PS3 version. There's actually quite a few people who were interested in the PS3 version of the game and still are. People want an MMO on the PS3/ consoles and that was proven with DCUO it's just that SOE couldn't on to their player base after end game. SE just needs to grab the audience and hold them. I think they'll do just fine, but only time will tell.

I wouldn't want to see ARR going F2P. I would rather pay every month and have SE give us support teams to maintain the game and developers to design new content. I want the game I plan on spending hours enjoying be financially able to grow over the years. When television is F2P - you get local channels...when you pay for cable or satellite - you get the world.