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

[Jetstream_Fox]

Fantasia allows you to completely change your race/gender, That and the name change are the only things that actually needs to be in cash shop, Heavly optional, and really shouldn't be givin as an example, aka you never have to buy one. so it shouldn't matter.

Yet it's there, as is everything in the cash shop that adds to the overall revenue of SE not on a monthly bases but immediately. You basically just said the cash shop shouldn't exist at all, that all of the items on the shop should be in the game included with our fee. So again, is 15 a month worth this game? With a cash shop, dry bone content updates and a company that seemingly learned nothing from its live letter.

[WinterLuna]

Making this game free is not going to suddenly make SE spout new content every month, nor is it going to make your gaming experience any more enjoyable if you're not enjoying it to begin with. I'd rather pay the sub.

[Anarnee]

I don't want it to be free, and I don't feel I should pay less, but I would like to see more.

[Lexia]

You can't have your cake and eat it too, the game is never going to be "free" it either pay a sub which most likely will always be or go pure cash shop and end up paying even more then a sub would cost.

[ksuisa]

Are you positive it's ok? I mean one bottle of fantasia is 9 dollars. That's 60% the cost of the fee. So with cash prices and a monthly fee, don't you think we as a community would see better changes? If you bought a fantasia each month plus paid the fee you'd be giving them 288 dollars a year.

Yeah but I don't buy a fantasia every month so that doesn't apply to me at all

[Belhi]

Yet it's there, as is everything in the cash shop that adds to the overall revenue of SE not on a monthly bases but immediately. You basically just said the cash shop shouldn't exist at all, that all of the items on the shop should be in the game included with our fee. So again, is 15 a month worth this game? With a cash shop, dry bone content updates and a company that seemingly learned nothing from its live letter.

What exactly are you comparing its content release schedule to exactly? Compared to most MMOs on the market, FF14 produces quite a lot of content and the 5 month gap before 3.1 was an outlier.

Also which live letter are you referencing? They haven't had one in ages.

[Lemuel81]

I'm not dooming it at all just wondering how the community feels based on the, but feel free to label it how you feel.

problem is theres tons of threads about how ppl feel- was it really necessary to have another thread? I wonder why SE listem more to the JP player base than us.

[anguel]

problem is theres tons of threads about how ppl feel- was it really necessary to have another thread? I wonder why SE listem more to the JP player base than us.

go live 1 or 2 years in japan, and then you will be able to answear your question yourself

[Chiramu]

The game subscription is fine. What should be for free are the damn retainers tho. Or at least pay once, have them forever.

The retainer fee goes towards renting that server space for your additional inventory space. I'm fine with the cost, I know exactly what my retainer fee goes towards.

[AnimaAnimus]

They need a tiered subscription model.

One that has a basic sub that allows you the basic game, lvl to 60, access to arr/heavensward zones and gear tiered about to law. (lets say 5.99 a month)

Another that has more endgame things to it, relics, extreme primals, alexander (lets say $10.99 a month)

and a high tier for high end games with everything the lower tiers offer plus high end dungeons, like coil but bigger. (let's say 15.99 a month)

Then people could pay for what they want to play and no one could use the "I pay for the same thing he pays for, why cant I have the same shiney he has without all that work" argument.

Sure higher end gamers would be paying for more, but that's ok, you get what you pay for. I would gladly pay $10 more a month than the standard tier to be able to play more difficult and rewarding content. Plus they could keep the cash shop up.

I am not financier but it seems like a reasonable model to me if the content was good enough for the higher tiers