Wait until everyone's been billed

[A-Shock]

People are getting billed already? Legacy players? Still have 19 free days to go personally.

And yeah, they might have 50% player retention after free trial if they're really lucky. There are a lot of F2P and good MMO's out there (GW2 off the top of my head) so asking for a subscription means you really have to have a great product to keep people in. And while I'm enjoying FFXIV, it's maybe a 7/10 as far as MMO's go.

50%? Don't you think that's a bit drastic?

[Dazusu]

SE isn't going to be making anymore hardware upgrades until everyone's been billed.

You say that like this game isn't already tens of millions of dollars in debt. They need to run it for at least 5 years before they see a profit (their words, not mine)

[Jinko]

spending 30 dollars on a game and playing for a month is well worth it, and if people don't want to pay the fee
for subpar service they won't expect numbers to taper off starting today and thank god for that...lets face it this is a game for the hardcore ff gamers and im one of them....hopefully the pop will stay healthy for SE to
spend more money on upgrades and content GL SE

LOL really ?

[Evilized]

So if you aren't legacy, you're still SOL for another 20 days? :/

[nasomi]

Legacy expired today, but the people that bought the game have time left I believe. SE has major costs to recoup after 1.0's losses and 2.0's development. I can entirely understand hteir hesitation to buy new hardware for hte current population. I have never waited longer than 2 minutes in hte queue to log in, nor longer than 15 minutes for the duty finder, even during peak hours.

I did just renew all 4 of my service accounts. It was my first time in the new billing system, I have to say I don't love it. Also seems glitchy, it doesn't list all of my characters under each service account, and under one it says no characters. If I click on another service account, and click back, they'll be there. That doesn't instill confidence.

[nasomi]

Also, I just renewed my accounts a minute ago with no problem, paying with my visa.

[Alleyia]

Got billed today and thus far I don't see myself unsubbing.. though.. still got 90 days to go till the next billing!

[Norack]

1.0 players are getting billed today.

I didn't!!!!

But than again that might be because PS3 gave me an extra 30 days, MWUHAHAHA

[rtpsoulx]

People are getting billed already? Legacy players? Still have 19 free days to go personally.

And yeah, they might have 50% player retention after free trial if they're really lucky. There are a lot of F2P and good MMO's out there (GW2 off the top of my head) so asking for a subscription means you really have to have a great product to keep people in. And while I'm enjoying FFXIV, it's maybe a 7/10 as far as MMO's go.

Well have fun with your ugly F2P/B2P MMO's

[Drako]

I'm legacy and I got billed three weeks ago for some reason(gonna check with support on this) but I also got billed today for my 30day sub. I actually couldn't login and had to go on and put in my payment method. I already did that a few weeks ago, and I thought everything was kinda honky when I put in my info three weeks ago and got charged. I was like wait don't we get some free time? So 1 I got charged already, and 2 I've been charged today, which is only three weeks from the last time I was charged, so idk something weird is going on.