Quote Originally Posted by Deviant1 View Post
A toxic community, bad code test practices and forced limitations may cause a person to leave. The reasons to play are limited in favor of increasing the duration for which I am subscribing. SE is demonstrating great marketing to attract new subs, offering rewards to prepay however is lacking retention, in my as well as many other player's opinions.

It is bad form to imply 'good' opinions as the majority and 'bad' opinions as the one rare person. A player poll would really help, but then again we haven't seen one of those in a while, and the results from the last few were ignored, so hmm.
While you may think that SE is lacking retention to prepay in long term customers, what I see could not be further from the truth. An amazing subscription package for legacy players, ability to transfer characters from 1.0, veteran rewards for players, these are all perks that reward long term players. I played "filthy casual Wow" for 5 years and aside from 6 month bulk discount (which FFXiV also has btw), you have nothing else to entice existing players to resubscribe.

Please point out where did I state that my opinion constitutes as the majority and that yours as the minority? I'm just stating my observations based on the fact that the population on my server has remained fairly stable and that for every person that leaves in my fc, usually one joins to take its place. So I would kindly ask you not to put words into my mouth. Thank you.