Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[BreathlessTao]

Yoshida said we wont be going F2P ever

Actually, Yoshi said they "could consider free-to-play". Mind you, he seems to have said a few other things as well and look where we are now... /shrug

[Cynric]

Actually, Yoshi said they "could consider free-to-play". Mind you, he seems to have said a few other things as well and look where we are now... /shrug

Seemed more like he was saying "if our players want f2p we may consider it" but I don't think anyone really wants to see ff14 be F2P. The answer was a pretty generic "we will try to do what our players want" answer.

That's not to say it will or wont happen just that I didn't quite get the vibe that they were considering it at this very moment as a model. Just that he wants people to play.

Hmm

Premium = what we have now with standard sub
free = with enough (anti-rmt) restrictions that the player pay the sub if he want to play it seriously. Also no access to cash shop without a sub

Yeah something like that. I don't know if I'd necessarily want to see that kind of payment model myself. But it seems like where the design of recent content is headed.