Dear Dev Team: Feedback from Chinese server

[Swallow193]

That's true, but I suspect it might be because the Chinese are charged in play time basis instead of a monthly subscription.

Ahh, about that, we recently changed into a selectable way of either Time Basis or Monthly Subscription as a result of user feedbacks.
If you play over 148hrs, then it will be cheaper with monthly subscription, and most of the players are doing monthly subscription currently =D

I don't rly know that many details, however I think the market price and charge price is mainly decided by CHN SNDA, not by SE.
Although I gotta say even I felt it was rude when my chiefs decided to publish this game as time basis MMO......

But yes the system change or game mechanism change is decided by SE.
I believe Mr.Yoshida had his own idea when he decided to do this, and I believe they understand more about MMO management than me a forum management member,
so let me keep my personal comment for this system :3

[Ooshima]

Ahh, about that, we recently changed into a selectable way of either Time Basis or Monthly Subscription as a result of user feedbacks.
If you play over 148hrs, then it will be cheaper with monthly subscription, and most of the players are doing monthly subscription currently =D

I don't rly know that many details, however I think the market price and charge price is mainly decided by CHN SNDA, not by SE.
Although I gotta say even I felt it was rude when my chiefs decided to publish this game as time basis MMO......

It is, and probably a root cause of all the problems you have raised.

Because it started as a time basis subscription it makes a lot of people feel compelled to rush. Because every minute wasted is money wasted, and you get a lot of bad attitudes flying around. People probably wouldn't even chat/interact because every minute of chit chat feels like being charged as well.

I know it sounds funny because over here I am paying a monthly subscription regardless I play 1hr a day or 10hrs a day. But at the very least we felt less compelled to rush things, and since we've already paid that monthly subscription, a lot of us doesn't mind to just long in and have a chat or help out with others rather than always on the rush.

Changing to full monthly subscription and the same level sync enforcement as us would probably be beneficial to your side as well.

[Swallow193]

It is, and probably a root cause of all the problems you have raised.

We did talk about that amongst the forum-manage team, however its not like we can make a company decide how they want to manage their product so......
Although, thank you for the concern on a foregin server =)