In your opinion, should the game be free? Or cost less per month?

[X-ill47]

There is a guy on my friend list who has every class and job at level 60including crafting. I don't even have one class at level 60 and I've been playing on and off since February. How do you guys get through the content so fast?

2 hours per day on week days and 4 on weekends. voila, first 50 in 2-4 weeks, first 60 in 3-6 weeks. "Current tier casual" end game in another week. Here you go.

[Jetstream_Fox]

At this point, what I am reading is how less than 20 people in the "community" feel.

And none of them come close to the your original post: "Look where we are, players of all game styles, raiding, nonraiding and even craft and gathering players, we are all, or for the most part of us, fed up with how this game is looking."

Then you haven't seen the mass amount of relic 3.0 post, mostly negative, the mass amount of raiding posts, again mostly negative. It's been a issue that craft and gathering players haven't been utilized in the proper sense of the jobs since housing became a thing. Just look at other responses, others want to know where our money is going, some are bored, some are ok. It wouldn't hurt you to actually read instead of jumping into a reply.

A lot of people have a lot of reason to justify the monthly fee, others do not. The point of this post was to see where we are as a community and lull and behold we are at a mix on how we feel about the game, might not be the whole community, but it's still insight.

Expanding my op I think this game WAS good but the funds that should have went to this game, went to other areas of SE and our game is suffering. Yoshi did say that early HW was going to pave the foundation of later patches, but 7 months into this expansion we have a factually received less per patch then in the past AND nothing major has happened. The purpose of mmos is to continually bring more to the plate that has substance and finding fun ways to reutilize older content. How is it that the team before, were able to put out more quality content and keep older content in the loop, yet now the team is struggling?

Do I think the game should be free? No. Do I think we should payless? Yes. If our money seemingly isn't going to expand the development team to provide us with more, then the product isn't worth it's current fee. You wouldn't pay 15 for a 24 ounce steak at a restaurant then come back next month and pay 15 for a 12 ounce cut.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

Eh, I'm totally fine with the current price. It's totally fair with the amount of content the game has..well..for me that is. >3>

[BristolRuss]

I don't begrudge having to pay a sub fee. I would rather pay a fee than go F2P and get the drawbacks that it comes with. That being said, I don't currently think that we are getting good value for our money.

IMO the content just isn't as good as it was in ARR. Coil was far, far better than Alex. 3 dungeons per patch instead of 2. New Hildy quests every main patch. Good main story (3.1's main story was so short. All that waiting for that?). And don't get me started on the clusterf*** that is the current relic grind. Just, eurgh.

If it wasn't for the fact that my sub just auto-renewed for another 6 months I would seriously consider un-subbing for a bit and then coming back when there was actually a considerable amount of stuff to do.

[RaspberryRipple]

if they keep releasing content like they have been, they will need to pay me to play

[Belhi]

I think the major issues as I said earlier are that 3.1 took too long to come out, Alex fell short and the new stuff in the Diadem and LoV have failed to hit the mark.

I think the Diadem isn't completely surprising because its them trying new things so some trial and error is going to happen. Alex is something they really need to pull up on. The Gold Saucer stuff I think is more of an issue with reward than gameplay. There isn't that much worth buying with MGP that can't either easily be gotten with a daily cackpot or that doesn't require massive grinding. Adding things like fun consumables, convenience items and more midrange rewards to the Gold Saucer would probably help.

[Destomius]

if they keep releasing content like they have been, they will need to pay me to play

I'm sure they'll be fine without you.

[Lemuel81]

why should this game be free or cheaper? going to the movies is more expensive than a months worth of entertainment >.>

[Felis]

If the devs got paid, why does it look like there's only one intern left that is copying and pasting 2.0's content desperately trying to meet the deadline?

Are we sure they got back from their break?

From what 2.x content was Diadem and Lord of Verminion copied?

Then you haven't seen the mass amount of relic 3.0 post, mostly negative, the mass amount of raiding posts, again mostly negative.

Because too many players find the expected grind unexpected. As if they never touched 2.x relic questline at the time the steps came ingame.

[Alberel]

From what 2.x content was Diadem and Lord of Verminion copied?

Well the diadem is just instanced hunts...