Pay to Play Subscription - Cast your votes!

[faris]

I'm going to delete my mules, keep my main and probably leave 11. I can't afford both, and the new content is more than what 11 is offering.

[PSxpert2011]

Pay to Play Subscription - Cast your votes!
Will you be staying with FFXIV once the subscription launches?

Like this post to vote Yes!

I'll do my best: Yes!

[JackDaniels]

And pay for it?

4Chan is free you know...

It's so much easier here though, and I'm fairly lazy lol. But in all honesty I'm just getting sick of the cattyness going on around here.

[grandm]

wow 400 posts later and there are still ppl saying there leaving. i would have thought you had all left by now. not quite in the hurry your posts lead us to believe. any anyway i love this saying "fanboy"

am i a fan - yes
am i a boy - yes

so is the saying fanboy sposed to be insulting? "oh please don't ecuse me of being a fan, that just nasty" lol. no but really i feel sorry for all the fangirls. why they get missed out. it truely is still a very sexist world we live in :P

[Narmito]

They give me a good reason to play >

I m ok that i m gonna have a full new version game for free

i m ok at the curent state of the game , so i m ok to pay

i can't understand why people that don't like the game at the current state want to continue to play and not pay ... for those player is the version 2 >.> and free to download it when it will released

until then , they can find another game to play free or something that deserve to pay it

but i m ok with the version 1 and i want to pay the fees i m very happy with the version 2 and i cant wait for the release .

[Solfleur]

They're being secretive about how much the fee is going to be per month or I haven't found that yet. I admit I have not checked the email yet because the game was given as a gift, already set up. Someone said a lump sum of $150. To that I would absolutely say NO! That would be a very obvious money grab...a clear attempt to grab and go by SE. If it's the usual under $15 per month and a couple bucks per character I'll give it some thought, but I still think it's pretty ballsy of them to have used us as unpaid testers on a NOT READY game for a full year, and even though they admit it's at LEAST a year from being where it belongs, they still expect us to pay. What they lacked it foresight they definitely have in audacity! ...no matter how they cover it up with pretty words of humble thanks and appreciation. That is as sincere as the following smile I have for them ^ ^

[Solfleur]

i feel sorry for all the fangirls. why they get missed out. it truely is still a very sexist world we live in :P

Well it IS a Japanese game. We female players are used to that from a culture long set in its ways and we choose to play anyway. Change comes more slowly in some places than others.

[Solfleur]

Unless you're referring to the official forums where all the people are fanboys for the game and praise every little thing SE does for god only knows what reason.

ZAM has a large sample and seems the most accurate and extensive poll I've seen so far. It comes out about equal between those who will stay and those who will either quit for good or quit for a year to see if SE is sincere about really putting a playable game together with that subscription money or if they're just making a money grab. I tend to find that more believable than people voting so heavily pro SE on an SE supported site.

[Solfleur]

Hardly, what I am saying is that if the game was at 2.0 a lot more people would be inclined to pay for it. The game that is coming out with patch 2.0 is a completely different game than the one we see today.

If SE can be trusted then that means that most of the core issues plaguing the game would have been resolved and we would have finally moved out of Beta and into some actual bloody content.

That is why more people would be willing to rework their budgets, for example, to be able to continue to play the game. At that point in time the game will offer an actually fun experience. Not only that but SE would have restored more faith into the player base, faith that they themselves destroyed by coming out with beyond sub par work and expecting their fans/players/customers to take it up the behind.

Besides, in today's global economy every cent matters. SE needs to be more sensitive to their customers, especially if they want them to spend their hard earned money on their product. Sadly, it doesn't leave much room for error on their part.

That being said, I understand that that SE needs money to make this game work I just don't think they have the right to ask their players to pay for such an incomplete game, especially if they're not even going to offer a discount.

This is very true, and the crux of the matter. Throughout the past year, during which we have been unpaid beta testers and had months of grinding undone at the whim of SE not once, not twice, but several times in several ways, the one thing we could use to comfort ourselves was the fact that at least they didn't have the AUDACITY to be charging us for the honor of being abused as players. Now, in the midst of changes assured to change the entire scope of the game literally from the ground up, from character creation to IU to the servers to the maps...literally EVERY SINGLE THING we spend our time on in true Korean F2P Grinder fashion...SE lauds our loyalty, gives us a pat on the back with one hand and reaches into our wallets with the other!

Some of us wascally wabbits with previous experience with SE may be a little less trusting than others and may decide to wait out this transitional process in the "safe" corner and let the more eager experimental bunnies get shocked repeatedly until the maze gets worked out to everyone's satisfaction.

That doesn't make us bad bunnies.

[Kafeen]

I don't get how not paying for a beta version of a game is somehow a free ride...

Because the game isn't a beta version.

You may have noticed the last of a beta label, the lack of SE referring to as a beta version since the gold master, the version number of the game being 1.0 or greater. Just because the game didn't meet the expectations of the players that doesn't mean that the game was a beta version.