"If WOW ever goes completely free-to-play, maybe we will consider it." Naoki Yoshida

[Magis]

So why can't F2P work with FFXIV? Who wants to spend $40 on a game that works only for 30 days unless you commit to a monthly subscription fee? Oh yeah, beside us fools?

Yes, let's turn FFXIV into utter trash like all the other F2P failures. Those MMOs didn't go F2P cause there was no money to be made with P2P. They turned F2P because they were failures and had to quickly recoup losses and payback investors.

[KaedrianLiang]

f2p = poor support, 1-2 years for quality content patches, ages 8-17

[Jinko]

Although Blizzard have said they will unlikely go F2P with WoW as it would mean redesigning a lot of the game which would be a huge undertaking, they do plan to make their next MMO free to play.

I personally prefer subscription mmos they have more content and it is released much quicker.

[Red_Wolf]

F2P and WoW's 8-bit NES graphics are what has destroyed the MMO genre.

F2P means 'Pay 2 Win' no matter how they try to sell it. Some devs are just more creative on why it takes a few hundred dollars to obtain some in-game BiS item.

I'll just leave MMO's if I run out of subscription options. It's bad enough I considered WoW before FFXIV.

[Elusana_Celah]

Free to play will be my last day in Eorzia.

[Edellis]

Even if YoshiP was joking, it's a sound statement. People cry about people following WOW, but when something succeeds so strongly, it's kind of hard not to. And with WOW still being the staple in MMO success, if it were to go F2P, it's sure to create a ripple. But then again WoW isnt XIV or Elder Scrolls Online, and clearly the developer knows this.

That said, I think above all YoshiP is a lover of games himself. The way he talks about it, i highly doubt this game will be going F2P. No self-respecting MMO player wants an F2P game.

[ClaireAbigail]

Free to play attracts the worst of the mmo community. Sure we have a fair number of bad apples, but compared to free to play games? lol...try playing the average joe f2p out there. Think of it this way, a troll will just keep on making an account in a f2p over and over just to screw with whoever they are trolling. In a subscription, they will think twice because if they get banned, it's not worth paying another 40 bucks just to troll a person. In my opinion. SE is right keeping this game as a subscription game. I think I heard somewhere that Yoshi said that he would rather shut the game down than go free to be play but don't quote me on that.

[Kidblinks]

I think this game is completely worth the monthly fee based on all the content we regularly get. Free to play games typically aren't too great, especially community wise.

[lorel]

Although Blizzard have said they will unlikely go F2P with WoW as it would mean redesigning a lot of the game which would be a huge undertaking, they do plan to make their next MMO free to play.

I personally prefer subscription mmos they have more content and it is released much quicker.

Blizzard scraped the new MMO they had been working on for close to ten years...

It was called Titan.

They reused some of the assets from the game and turned it into a FPS called Overwatch. So much fail what a waste...

[Laraul]

Yes, let's turn FFXIV into utter trash like all the other F2P failures. Those MMOs didn't go F2P cause there was no money to be made with P2P. They turned F2P because they were failures and had to quickly recoup losses and payback investors.

What about the F2P success stories? Like World of Tanks and Destiny. Hmm? If a F2P failed, it was because it was a BAD GAME to begin with. Not because it wasn't P2P.

F2P haters' gonna hate. Easy to blame things on a label. Hard to back it up w/ facts though.