would you play this game if it went free to play/hybrid?

[Kaedan]

Nope, I'd drop it like a steaming pile of hot fecal matter.

F2P games are a huge ripoff. Not only does their quality suffer greatly, but 5-10% of the playerbase literally pays for the other 90-95% to play, and the people who do pay for microtransactions end up spending far more per month than they would on a sub.

Luckily, I don't think SE is that dumb.

Actually, yes.

A lot of f2p players would try it regardless of it being a FFXIV game. A good chunk of people here are only here because they're FF players and not MMO players. With more MMO players they might actually design the game for FF AND MMO players. PLUS there would be a huge increase of decently skilled players.

Yeah... the unwashed F2P masses. Sorry, but most of the people who only play F2Ps and would only play FFXIV if there was no sub are not the kind of players you want to play with. They're fickle, greedy, immature freeloaders, for the most part. And it most definitely wouldn't bring in decently skilled players.