Free to Play vs Pay to Play Ideas

[Eldaena]

well a few reasons,

1. FTP have a certain reputation that could turn a lot of the pro P2P players away and could also bring in a lot of the rabble that flood FTP games. (dont try and deny it FTP MMOS are flooded with idiots, though there are exceptions such as some FTP that started out P2P).

2. Thining out the development team. Currently the team is more then likely way to busy to be adding in a cash shop, cash shop UI, cash shop Items, creating visuals for said items, balancing said items.

3. Tacky, FFXIV is quite a serious game it is heavily lore influenced and styles are set up a certain way, I certainly dont want to see a bunch of people running around with wings that do nothing or modern clothing.

4. Its a business model. Im not a business professional but Im willing to be that switching up business models is no small task.

All your points are right on the mark, I wouldn't want any of those things either. But that's why SE could do it differently and not the way people have come to think it works. They don't have to call it "F2P" or "Cash Shop." It could just all have it's own flavor and so and so forth. I don't want ridiculous wings or glowing weapons either. But, I wouldn't mind more stylized gear, hair, etc that fit in Final Fantasy.

Right now, the game has a bad reputation. And even if it becomes wonderful, it's hard to see people flocking back to it after being heartbroken, so I agree whatever they decide to do payment wise will most likely lose some of their current base. There are pros and cons to both sides of this coin and that's why I opened this thread to talk about it.