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    Mimilu's Avatar
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    Mimiji Miji
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    Exodus
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    Dancer Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
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    I'm not very good at math but to compare:
    A monthly subscription is 30 days long.
    30 days * 24 hours per day = 720 hours
    720 * 60 minutes per hour = 43200 minutes
    At the "Entry" payment plan of $12.99 / 43200 minutes = 0.000300694 cents per minute
    At "Standard, it's $14.99 / 43200 minutes = 0.000346991
    The Chinese servers pay around $5.32 (35 yaun) for about 3000 minutes
    5.32 / 3000 = 0.001773333 cents per minute
    I haven't found anywhere that says Korea's prices yet but I think you buy days of game-time (either 30 days or 90 days).
    (If I did this wrong, please correct me >w>() )

    Compared to the Chinese Servers, we technically pay less per minutes BUT we also pay for wasted minutes when we aren't playing versus them, who only loose their minutes when they play.
    I don't know much about the Korean Servers other then hearing that they pay for days of game-time... >A>()

    I also would also like more attractive items and less Monkey-Butt-Helmets. >w>
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    xXRaineXx's Avatar
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    Raine Serafine
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    Chocobo
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    Archer Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Mimilu View Post
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    Chinese FFXIV charges 0.6yuan per hour, that's 0.10usd. So that's around 14.4yuan (2.20usd) for every 24 hours played. If one plays for 24/7 for 30days, that is 432yuan or 65usd. 99yuan is about 15usd, that's 165 hours, about 5.5hours a day for 30 days.

    To say that China is cheaper than us is very situational. As 5.5hours is quite normal for players who spend a lot of time either grinding every class or afking all the time.
    If this is cheap, then me who plays maybe 2-3 times during weekdays for 2 or so hours for raiding and weekends for casual playing, then I am simply overpaying. I would benefit and save more money by paying per hour.

    To be honest people are being too sensitive about not getting what others get. It's been like this for a very long time. MMORPG's have been split between different regions with differing developers. There aren't many games like this that run internationally. Take Blade and Soul for example, it is p2p in Korea and Japan, here in Japan sub is near 3000yen which is about 30usd. Just because the NA servers are f2p we can't demand for our servers to be free as well and demand everything they get that we don't. People have to accept that region exclusives are a thing, no matter what you have to say about how everyone deserves to have it, exclusives are exclusives. You can argue all you want it won't change that fact. If Yoshida has plans to bring it in, he will do it even without people asking for it. If he doesn't, then it won't.
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    Last edited by xXRaineXx; 01-22-2016 at 03:13 PM.