Quote Originally Posted by Gracious View Post
I wish SE would charge us right now. Right this very minute. If you bought the game and were unhappy with it you should return it. I bought the game and would pay a montly fee now because I'm realistic. There are hardly 0 new or original complaints anymore. SE has addressed the majority of them. I understand that it will take time to get them implemented into the game. So the issue you bring up is they can't afford to loose their player base. Well I don't see anyone paying anything at the moment. At least they would get some money for those of us willing to pay; and I don't think it's as small as you think. Would I loose sleep that your so called majority aren't on the game anymore? No, because almost my entire ls would pay to play and we're realistic to know it's going to take time. ~ I have a dream, that players on the forums who actually have new, constructive input be heard. ~
It's not a "so called" majority, it is a majority, period. The fact that you and your LS friends love the game doesn't mean it's not true. I mean come on, just take a look around next time you're on. There's what? maybe 700 people per server at the moment. I was on FFXI in April and there were more people than that in Jeuno alone. The server itself had about 2500 people on. If that doesn't tell you FFXIV isn't good right now then I don't know what does. So it wouldn't be right to charge us for it at the moment.

Also, I say some people are putting words in other people's mouths and what do you do? the exact same thing with my post. I'm not saying SE would lose their player base if they started charging us now, I'm saying it would be wrong to make us pay for a game that doesn't deliver yet. It's not about the player base, the player base will pay anyway. They don't care about that, they want to expand and they're obviously not happy with the game or the amount of people on at the moment. Keeping that in mind, add the fact that a crapload of people stopped playing but still look at the game from a distance. If they make people pay to play now, it will be the last straw for a lot of those people. You can't fuck people once, fuck them again and expect them to come back when you hand over candy bars a year later.

Now keep in mind that the OP asked if we would decide to pay if they gave us a choice. Pay to help them get back on their feet, or keep playing for free. Now it ain't like they're broke and need your contribution to move on, but if you and your friends wanna pay for some obscure reason, that's not my problem.