Compromise: Just Charge $5 For Now. Once 2.0 is Out, Then Charge $12

[ArcheustheWise]

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Googled, Yahoo'd... sorry man, your going to have to help me out, is there a search engine your using im not?

[Ava]

A better compromise IMO would be to make a super ultra discounted bulk deal. Like, buy a year's subscription for $6/mo, 6 month sub for $9/mo, or pay $12/mo recurring

[Kinghoran]

It'd be nice to pay that small an amount, but then they might really need the 13 bucks and I doubt you know how much it costs to run an MMO.

[Aion]

well, again it depends on the marketing team lol....do they confident if $12 is worth of it or not...that would be revealed after patch 1.20...

[Fear]

Yoshi said the game was 50% complete BEFORE 1.19 patch, with the 1.19 + 1.20 patches we'll see improved market wards, /search system and a complete battle reform. IT IS ready to be billed at full price because it basicly is 75-80% complete game after 1.20. All thats left is a facelift on the UI, maps and engine + jobs.

I will happily pay my £8.99 a month

[ChiefCurrahee]

It's the principle of paying full price for a half-finished game.

I'm sure for most of them, paying half price for a half-finished game is just fine, as evidenced by the Blue Garter poll.

When does Blue Garter = Entirety of FFXIV community? The gamers that thrive there, are hardcore elitest players. To them thier opinion is final. I've spent 7 years on thier forums with FFXI to have formed that impression of them.


We've been spoiled by getting free play time for a year. I'm not saying We should have been paying this whole time, but it's hard to accept a change when that change is on us.

We wouldn't be having this conversation if SE shut down the servers then came back up live with 1.20.
We woulnd't be here if SE launched FFXIV in it's current state.

I'm looking forward to the start of the billing? Why because I know the people that are still there enjoy playing the game as much as I do.

[TheVedis]

the sad thing is a poll asking how much people wan to pay is very inacurate if anything

people will always opt to pay the least ammount possible, if not go free if given the option

[ChiefCurrahee]

Why in the world would anyone on a budget want to pay 12 bucks a month for this game when there are other options like Star Wars, Guild Wars II, and Diablo III out there?

If 12 bucks breaks someones budget, how do they justify paying $60.00+ for a game to begin with?

[Kallera]

the sad thing is a poll asking how much people wan to pay is very inacurate if anything

people will always opt to pay the least ammount possible, if not go free if given the option

Exactly. This has nothing to do with principles. Gamers are not exactly honor-bound paragons of virtue and chivalry.

[Rentahamster]

So again. Ask yourself. What in 1.19 and 1.20 is missing from a solid starting point of a newly launched game?

1. Bland copy/paste environments.
2. Barely functional LS management options.
3. Unintuitive party search features that no one uses.
4. Server lag.
5. UI lag.
6. Bad UI design
7. No mailbox system.
8. Unwieldy market wards system that discourages players from participating in the economy. (should be better in 1.20, though)
9. Inability to display a lot of players on the screen at once.
10. Overtaxation of hardware and unoptimized performance.
11. Journey from rank 1-50 doesn't adequately prepare a player for end-game content.
12. Not enough end-game content.
13. Not enough mid-game content.
14. Battle system is needs a lot of work in terms of balance and function.
15. Battle system is not as deep and strategic as it should be.
16. Battle system still suffers from animation lock/lag.

Among other things.