Price Reduction =)

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...yopemeopw.html

This is a small relief to me. How about all of you?

(I know some of you may think this was coming due to the live letter, but it wasn't fully confirmed, and this here is true confirmation ^^)

Well, it's too low IMO. They pretty much gave us a free character option until 2.0 since the discount is just 3 bucks/month.

Not really a good deal...i hope they have some good stuff on their sleeves that justify "keeping the same subscription".

@Lienn: It's an almost 25% discount. You're not entitled to anything. Take it or leave it.

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

3$ per character is just out of control. When most mmos alow as many characters as you want this is a big mistake. Times have changed and SE just cannot keep up. It is really sad.

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You kidding? Most MMOs charge 15 bucks per account. Here you pay 13 bucks for a char that can play all classes, just like those other ones where you can have multiple chars, with one class per.

3$ per character is just out of control. When most mmos alow as many characters as you want this is a big mistake. Times have changed and SE just cannot keep up. It is really sad.

I'm more concerned about the date, 6th of January begin of subscription. 1.20 wouldn't be released that much earlier, say 2-3 weeks before subscription, effectively pushed the date back to next Friday at the earliest.

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Originally Posted by Answa

@Lienn: It's an almost 25% discount. You're not entitled to anything. Take it or leave it.



You kidding? Most MMOs charge 15 bucks per account. Here you pay 13 bucks for a char that can play all classes, just like those other ones where you can have multiple chars, with one class per.

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When 2.0 comes out they are going to charge 12.99 when others mmo games are 14.99 with as many characters as you want. this is a problem. Please help me to understand why they need to charge 3$ per character? If you can sell me the reason I will be glad to hear it. (and also tell my why wow and rift can give you unlimited free characters while your at it.)

By the way when replying spare the white knight lines, im a big ff fan and will stay anyway no matter what, I just think this is not a smart move for future success in the game. (people on this forum have a for every aspect or against every aspect mindset on here so sadly I have to set that up lol)

Isn't the answer obvious? We are getting infinite character slots in our one character already because we can CHANGE CLASSES.

What possible reason is there to have more than one character in FFXIV? Unless you want a mule...and that's what retainers are for.

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Originally Posted by Answa

@Lienn: It's an almost 25% discount. You're not entitled to anything. Take it or leave it.



You kidding? Most MMOs charge 15 bucks per account. Here you pay 13 bucks for a char that can play all classes, just like those other ones where you can have multiple chars, with one class per.

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This man... is a psychic... quoting people who post after him XD

Anyways, I'm happy. Would've payed full price anyways.

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

When 2.0 comes out they are going to charge 12.99 when others mmo games are 14.99 with as many characters as you want. this is a problem. Please help me to understand why they need to charge 3$ per character? If you can sell me the reason I will be glad to hear it. (and also tell my why wow and rift can give you unlimited free characters while your at it.)

By the way when replying spare the white knight lines, im a big ff fan and will stay anyway no matter what, I just think this is not a smart move for future success in the game. (people on this forum have a for every aspect or against every aspect mindset on here so sadly I have to set that up lol)

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I don't white knight. I already said it. 15 bucks to have as many chars as you want. But that one char can only go only one direction.

This game, you pay 13 for one char that can do everything and anything you want.

It's simple. I've never wanted to make an additional char on either FFXI or FFXIV. When I played Aion, I had about 4 and it was honestly exhausting to be delivering stuff between them to save me the trouble of buying duplicates.

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Originally Posted by MeowyWowie

This man... is a psychic... quoting people who post after him XD

Anyways, I'm happy. Would've payed full price anyways.

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lol. I hate posting consecutively.

So, 8 euros a month up until just before 2.0 if you take the 6 month plan.

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Customers who wish to change from Crysta to credit card, or vice versa, please follow the steps outlined below.

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Ugg looks like I won't be subscribing even if it is discounted. Maybe they will fix this for 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Meow_Zedong

Isn't the answer obvious? We are getting infinite character slots in our one character already because we can CHANGE CLASSES.

What possible reason is there to have more than one character in FFXIV? Unless you want a mule...and that's what retainers are for.

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So that is why they need 3$ if someone wants a Taru and a Galka (i know wrong names). Sorry that longic really does not work. Saying that you cannot have more than one toon without extra money is silly. (If anyone can JUSTIFY reason for 3$ charge when ff11 even was 1$ please do so.)

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

So that is why they need 3$ if someone wants a Taru and a Galka (i know wrong names). Sorry that longic really does not work. Saying that you cannot have more than one toon without extra money is silly. (If anyone can JUSTIFY reason for 3$ charge when ff11 even was 1$ please do so.)

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

Saying that you cannot have more than one toon without extra money is silly. (If anyone can JUSTIFY reason for 3$ charge when ff11 even was 1$ please do so.)

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You don't need the extra character to experience the game. Unlike other games where you are forced into making more characters whether you like it or not.

It is completely voluntary and a vanity service at best.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

You don't need the extra character to experience the game. Unlike other games where you are forced into making more characters whether you like it or not.

It is completely voluntary and a vanity service at best.

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So the people who enjoy the vanity part of games should pay out the rear for it?

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Originally Posted by jones6

So the people who enjoy the vanity part of games should pay out the rear for it?

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They should choose wisely.

$1.00 for the character slot (like it was in XI) but you have to pay an additional $2.00 surcharge for the HD that the character comes with. Justified.

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

When 2.0 comes out they are going to charge 12.99 when others mmo games are 14.99 with as many characters as you want. this is a problem. Please help me to understand why they need to charge 3$ per character? If you can sell me the reason I will be glad to hear it. (and also tell my why wow and rift can give you unlimited free characters while your at it.)

By the way when replying spare the white knight lines, im a big ff fan and will stay anyway no matter what, I just think this is not a smart move for future success in the game. (people on this forum have a for every aspect or against every aspect mindset on here so sadly I have to set that up lol)

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To answer the 1st part the following is taken from the post
* The fee structure for after the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV Version 2.0 (including those of retainers) is unconfirmed at the time of writing

Could mbe anything. wait til they post it.


As for the 2nd part I do not play those games so I do not know the advantages

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Originally Posted by Answa

They should choose wisely.

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And how does one choose wisely without exploring other options?

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Originally Posted by jones6

And how does one choose wisely without exploring other options?

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Experimenting.

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Originally Posted by jones6

So the people who enjoy the vanity part of games should pay out the rear for it?

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I don't care about the moral standpoint, but the fact is that this is how it's done industry wide. Vanity content is not always free, and the prices aren't correctly proportionate to the effort it takes to develop and maintain them. A shiny pony in WoW costs 20 bucks, alternate costumes in SFIV cost 5 bucks per 2 characters.

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Originally Posted by jones6

And how does one choose wisely without exploring other options?

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The first month is free.

This is most exceptable for now. Not the 50% reduction I was hoping for; but 1/3 is ok. Also will appriciate the money I will save on FFXI for 3 months. Was not expecting that after the discount I received last year

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

3$ per character is just out of control. When most mmos alow as many characters as you want this is a big mistake. Times have changed and SE just cannot keep up. It is really sad.

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No it's not sad because you can do everything with one character aside from grand companies, homestate, and the like. Seriously stop it and go somewhere's else.

Did they reduced the price to $9.99 a month, instead of $12.99? Then $6.99 discounted until 2.0 is launched?

Did I read that right?

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Originally Posted by Andrien

Did they reduced the price to $9.99 a month, instead of $12.99? Then $6.99 discounted until 2.0 is launched?

Did I read that right?

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No. It's 6,99 + the character fee of 3, to total of 9,99 minimum (unless you take the 3/6-month plan).

@3/4 of the price is mathematically and statistically the highest chances that SE will make the most money off of (like I showed in a thread a long time ago about about the various discount rates vs required subs to make a profit). I knew they had some decent brains in their HQ.

Well so sad i waisted so much time on this game... i'am gona quit ;/

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Originally Posted by Gukswar

Well so sad i waisted so much time on this game... i'am gona quit ;/

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Can I have your gil? Awwww damn, your not on my server >.>

Eh...you did know the game wasnt going to be free forever right?

This is OUTSTANDING hah! People complained because SE started talking about billing at the end of the year. The masses called for a price reduction. Now people complain because they feel the reduction is TOO MUCH? ahaha


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ahahahha

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Originally Posted by DeadRiser

No it's not sad because you can do everything with one character aside from grand companies, homestate, and the like. Seriously stop it and go somewhere's else.

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I realize that you dont get this but people can have different opinions on an issue without having to go away. This is a forum not a everyone agree with you topic. Once again I love this game bigtime, I just feel different about this than you do. That should be ok.

In other news, $9.99 is a good price ^^.

<--gives SE some money, now let's begin the 2.0 countdown ^^

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

I realize that you dont get this but people can have different opinions on an issue without having to go away. This is a forum not a everyone agree with you topic. Once again I love this game bigtime, I just feel different about this than you do. That should be ok.

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Well why raise a topic that is irrelevant. When they released XIV, they said you didn't need to make multiple characters because of the armory system. You shouldn't have to make multiple characters, that's your own problem.

Also, I was down to pay 9.99 a month. Whatever can get them to get the job done a little faster wouldn't hurt ^^

The way the fees are presented is unsurprisingly convoluted (gg SE). I've read previous posts in this thread so I understand it now... At a glance, however, it appears they reduced the price from 12.99 to 9.99 and then once more to 6.99. At least these were my first confused and misled impressions... Also, 3$ per additional character is ludicrous. Is this their attempt to make up for the losses in reducing the base fee...?

Just leaving this here too

Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like we'll be able to purchase extra retainers when the sub goes live?

if so, coupled with the lack of a in-game delivery system, means any mule is gonna automatically double your subscription cost :(

TAKE MY MONEY SE /throw credit card

Cool, i'm going to subscribe.