Quote Originally Posted by Saccharin View Post
F2P is only viable when you employ dirty ways to get money from people like lottery boxes. Sadly FF14 is increasingly putting desirable things on the cash shop.
Wildstar, Dota 2 and Path of Exile all do F2P in an incredibly fair manner (more fair than some P2P games). It's more than viable, it just isn't "viable" if the company behind it is SE or any other greedy corporation that doesn't care for their consumers.