Quote Originally Posted by mindful View Post
There a rumor going around there all making offers this month and next month. In the billions. It would be great for us gamers now on ffxiv if one them get a hold them now. Also there all making offers on sega. Man this new console war going be fun.
Think of the stuff and the speed of contents we can get for FFXiV. Dreamland.
PerfectWorld is a company known for its Free2Play titles and that's all it does.

Electronic Art Games (EA Games) has recently declared that all his current games contains micro-transactions and is solely responsible for SWTOR turn on Free2Play, thus preventing the game from receiving new content for 6 months to implement Free2Play as quickly as possible.

Microsoft Games has little to no respect to any gamer that doesn't follow their own point of view and play their games the way they want it played. They also impose a subscription to XBOX live to play online (that means to play FFXIV:ARR, you need XBOX live subscription and FFXIV:ARR subscription). PS4, for instance only impose PS+ subscriptions for games using Sony's servers, which means FFXIV:ARR will not require PS+ to play.

Activision is known for publishing incomplete games full price, only to sell expansions full price until the game is complete and then release another game.


I don't see any of them being beneficial to FFXIV:ARR on the short term. Most of them will only develop FFXIV:ARR if it makes a huge profit and will turn the game into a money grabbing thing at every corner.