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

[Lyzern]

A game having a subscription price has a lot more implications than just "We pay you, now give us all your content".

I mean, fine, we pay, we deserve fresh content, you're right, but I'd rather pay for a good game than play a free game *even if it was slightly better*. The reasons are that a paywall keeps a lot of bad community members away; scammers and bots; pay to win garbage and those things make for a much better experience in the game.

So no, I'd rather keep paying such a low fee as 10€.

[NoahArks]

Considering I'm a legacy, I don't pay as much as others and there are other ways to get 60day timecards cheaply. I don't really see a problem with the price for this reason.



[edit] The stuff that should be lowered in price are the glamour that released. Minfilla outfit 10.50 and comes with the hairstyle? Personally I couldn't care less about the outfit, but they made a hairstyle something you have to pay real money for... Couldn't they have thrown it in the game as gold saucer prize? 1mil mgp or something...

[Elim]

So you want the game to go F2P? If the game goes F2P there will be LESS content updates and when there is updates the quality will be terrible. That or the updates will be 99% cash shop items.

No thank you. The price for the game is fine too. It's actually pretty decent compared to other MMOs.

I still enjoy the game even if Alex Savage was a massive disappointment. Maybe the next raid installment wont be as bad. Hopefully. I have hope.

[Lexia]

With the need to buy additional (almost necessary) retainer space, and a cash shop, I think it should move to paid, full price expansions every 6 months (or every 12 months and a smaller update/patch every 3 months) and free to play. Guild Wars was pretty successful on this model.

How many extra retainers you saying are necessary? I do have one extra but other then that I don't see the need for more then that, unless you playing and gearing every job then that your play style which game not forcing you to do.

[Granyala]

So you rather have to go outside the scope of glamour and actually make the optional item shop a true cash shop in order to remove the monthly fee? Pretty sure more would be upset about that.

You can easily run any MMO with a vanity only cash shop.
make no mistake, these are business people. They know they are double dipping and they will milk people for as long as possible before transitioning to F2P.

IMHO they should have to choose: Either sub fee or MT cash shop. But not both. Demanding cash on a monthly basis and then turning around selling mounts/pets/transmog stuff is insulting.
Though I grant you that FFs shop is very tame compared to WoWs where they release recolored wolf #26 and unique mounts all go into the store nowadays.

[Twilite]

I prefer a subscription model. You people REALLY do NOT WANT this game to go F2P. I'm warning you, you will not like it.

[Rose-Wild]

If the content is going to keep being so poor and take so long to come out then the game should be free.

[Kewitt]

I wish SE would increase the cost by $1. for everyone including legacy. This type of actions may finally push the Free to play people away.

[Shug]

I think it's funny how people are trying to say after cost and server maintenance SE barely has any money. You don't think they are making a killing off of us? If they were not, the game would not be here. (I hate F2P, just thought some people are being silly about how poor SE is after our millions in sub fees.)

[Belhi]

If the content is going to keep being so poor and take so long to come out then the game should be free.

They said they will be back to a 3-3.5 month cadence again starting with 3.2.

Personally I think if your going to play a game, you should be willing to pay for it regardless of its quality. You do no favours to a developer playing their game for free cause that doesn't reimburse them for the work and time they are put in. The only caveat for that is situations like FF14's 1.x. where the developers are intending a full revamp and are giving free time to loyal customers as an apology for their failure.

That's not even close to the situation FF14 is currently in.