It's time to reevaluate the idea of adding a PLEX/Chronoscroll-like system to FFXIV

[Tiggy]

Denial of what? I just hope FFXIV makes as much money as possible. I want KH3 to be polished.

Every little one of your "if they" lines where you seem to suppose to know what they are thinking just to somehow keep the door open on this idea. It's denial. They said 80% of the players are happy "So, we don’t believe that FFXIV needs to shift in that direction." To them it doesn't appear to be solely about making money. Honestly this game is doing nothing but selling and making headlines so I don't know why you think this is a problem to begin with ESPECIALLY since this game brought them into the black within months of launch.

Using KH3 is a serious distraction and irrelevant to the overall discussion in this thread. We all want square to succeed. This thread was never about them succeeding or not in their other endeavors. It was solely about "It's time to reevaluate the idea of adding a PLEX/Chronoscroll-like system to FFXIV." Square has clearly evaluated their model and the level of satisfaction customers get from it. So quite honestly they did reevaluate these ideas internally already. They decided not to change the model. That's all there is to it.

Just because they don't take up a plex system does not mean they won't make enough money to make a killer KH game or any other great game. It's a fallacy to assume the quality of KH3 solely rides on the success of FFXIV or that it's solely riding on the profits from FFXIV. Disney has quite a bit riding on the game too and they help fund it quite nicely. Do you really think Disney wouldn't be throwing money at the single best Disney video game series ever released?

So please. Don't drop KH3 into this thread like it somehow justifies a Plex like system. It doesn't. It's a completely different conversation.

To be fair, PLEX isn't really free 2 play like Elder Scrolls is (the comparison made in the article), somebody is paying for the subscriptions.

The point was that they've clearly done the research and evaluated systems in other games. They've determined players are happy and no change is needed. Do you really think Plex like systems weren't in that internal discussion? 80% of players are happy with the way things are now. That happiness includes the lack of a plex system. Not just that it's not a f2p game. Every poster here saying they don't want a plex model is an example of how such a system would make people unhappy and would decrease that 80% satisfaction level.

This isn't rocket science.

While you are correct that player satisfaction is important, I wouldn't think for a second that if they could get away with making more money at the expense of our satisfaction, they would pass up the opportunity.

Have you not been paying attention to Square in the last few years?
1. 1.0 bombed so they made it free.
2. They remade the entire game solely to win back disappointed fans at a great financial cost.
3. They included the ps3 version despite it's limitations just because they once promised it would come to ps3.
4. The servers at launch were woefully inadequate and their specific reason was they thought they would have to win fans back.

It's very clear that from the moment 1.0 came out that Square was doing everything in it's power to make people happy, to win fans back, and to fulfill past promises. It's clearly been their priority to make their fans happy. Your assertion that they would go money hungry at the first opportunity flies completely in the face of their behavior so far for FFXIV and in the face of that interview response. You're making assumptions because you're cynical about companies as money hungry organizations. That's a stereotype that doesn't for any reason appear to fit to Square in this context.