I am excited to see what happens when subs kick in.

[ashikenshin]

I think it will lose a lot of players but not because they want to quit. But, because of the terrible billing system SE has in place. That thing is crap and you all will get to know how crap it is soon.

[jellis41]

Hopefully all the super 1337 rage quitters will go find a new game to play and Final Fantasy fans will stay and help build a great community and a great game.

[Navycrow]

Square already made a profit for over 1 year and /12 of the game so I looking forward to this new content every 2-3 months nay sayers will be gone and can come to a supportive fourms

[Yucie]

If FFXI is any indication, this game will never go F2P.

[Verdan]

Square made this game expecting far fewer people than are playing it. It's why it has a sub model, they didn't need high player numbers to be profitable. I'm sure the drop-off in players will be expected and won't ruin anything.

Besides, don't you dudes know not to rush to the end-game in a new MMO by now? They're always bad. They're bad on purpose, they're trying to bottleneck progress.

[Tribunus]

I think it will lose a lot of players but not because they want to quit. But, because of the terrible billing system SE has in place. That thing is crap and you all will get to know how crap it is soon.

Eh? You mean choosing one, two or three months and entering your card details and your done? Whats so bad about that? :/

[Welsper59]

Eh? You mean choosing one, two or three months and entering your card details and your done? Whats so bad about that? :/

It's crap if you're using something like NoScript or maybe a certain type of adblock addon. But that's not exactly the fault of SE that we're too ignorant about the things we use lol. It's just fine otherwise.

[JamesX]

The SE Subscription system is pretty bad if you want to hide your credit card info. Maybe that is what some people are doing.

[Nikki]

Bottom line is, you claim that you don't need a crystal ball to tell how things go, and then you proceed to prognosticate using one. By the way, it's clearly broken.

Whatever i said is common sense and based on the past trend of post release P2P MMOS and their downfall. That is why i said in beginning that one doesn't need a crystal ball to guess the obvious. FFXIV is just another themepark MMO like its predecessors and i see no reason why it will have a different fate when it is even though fun is as generic as it gets in terms of features. What FFXIV does, every other MMO also does it and more on top of that offers it in F2P or B2P package.

So yeah i already know for sure how things are going to turn out in few months for FFXIV. Again this is not being gloomer or droomer but being practical. I have learned from the past, maybe you haven't.

[Junpei]

Square made this game expecting far fewer people than are playing it. It's why it has a sub model, they didn't need high player numbers to be profitable. I'm sure the drop-off in players will be expected and won't ruin anything.

Besides, don't you dudes know not to rush to the end-game in a new MMO by now? They're always bad. They're bad on purpose, they're trying to bottleneck progress.

Actually XIV's Endgame is incredibly good. Well balanced, lots of interesting mechanics and more than anything a real challenge of execution for the players. Just to clarify this as I know it's a "go-to" rebuttal around these parts, but the Turn 5 Coil fight wont suddenly be "easy" with Crystal Tower gear, there are mechanics in place that ignore your gear and challenge your cohesion and reaction times as a team.