Can we stop the free login weekends?

[Theresa]

I think they should the free weekends to our subscribe period. That's what bother me.

[RyujinUzikin]

It's like telling SE...

"Please don't persuade those who left to come back by kissing their butts and showing them all the content they're missing by giving them 48 hours to try and do everything and not be able to so they rage over it and come back and give you more money."

Pretty much...

[Chihaya]

Did Hyperion break down or something? Cause on on Balmung, other than the occassional red dot mass at Odin and S ranks (which sometimes happen with or without free log in weekend), I haven't felt much lag?

[Imakun]

I've been experiencing random 90ks all day, and getting back in takes forever too. Of course abolishing things like the free login weekends is stupid, but they need to work on improving their servers at the very least :\

[Trixxy]

No latency increase whatsoever here and I even got a friend to resub due to the free weekend!

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

What they need to work on is their servers and the capacity for them. Free login weekends are great, but the problem with latency and overpopulated servers persists with or without it. Blaming that on the free weekends is kind of silly.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I think they should the free weekends to our subscribe period. That's what bother me.

Yeah a whole 2 days totally makes a difference in the billing cycle. These free weekends aren't meant for active subscribers. They're for people who haven't played and to entice them to come back and subscribe again.

[WHS]

How many ppl right now do you know for sure are coming back to play ffxiv right now because of this free weekend? 2nd thing, how many can really enjoy the new grind content in 2 to 3 days tops? I would love to see my old friends come back to play. But to be honest I do not think a free weekend is really getting that many players to come and sub for the long haul. 3.0 Expansion might.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Who said if the whole thing was working or not? I was stating the purpose behind the free weekends and why we have em.

[juniglee]

How many ppl right now do you know for sure are coming back to play ffxiv right now because of this free weekend? 2nd thing, how many can really enjoy the new grind content in 2 to 3 days tops? I would love to see my old friends come back to play. But to be honest I do not think a free weekend is really getting that many players to come and sub for the long haul. 3.0 Expansion might.

Why not though?

My friend came back, did some story quests, got up to Shiva, did a few dungeons, joined me for a practice T9 run. Fairly possible in the space of two or three days. None of them being grindy in any way, except leveling Rogue. Going with the purpose of:

They're for people who haven't played and to entice them to come back and subscribe again.