Is our sub fee not enought

[Jandor]

Technically if they only ditched the sub fee it would be B2P not F2P.

[Adire]

Technically if they only ditched the sub fee it would be B2P not F2P.

If they kept the purchase price and dropped the sub fee, yes.

Whether they'd go the route of SWTOR, dropping the purchase price and sub fee, or the route of The Secret World and being B2P is anyone's guess. Either would be preferable to me over paying a sub fee and getting an increasingly F2P-esque cash shop though.

[Jandor]

If they kept the purchase price and dropped the sub fee, yes.

Whether they'd go the route of SWTOR, dropping the purchase price and sub fee, or the route of The Secret World and being B2P is anyone's guess. Either would be preferable to me over paying a sub fee and getting an increasingly F2P-esque cash shop though.

I assume they would go the Secret World route.
I agree though, this constant cash shop expansion is annoying.

[Genaxx]

Nothing but greed as usual, the cash shop should just be boycotted...

[Watachy]

I assume they would go the Secret World route.
I agree though, this constant cash shop expansion is annoying.

I would love someone using the datas to show the CS exclusivites added on the past months.
In my opinion, they added more CS exclusivities during the last 6 months than they've been doing since 2.0

[MikaIto]

hey here is that thing so many people asked for since suggesting new emotes was a thing lets make them pay for it because we know they asked for it. prices are so high that it only takes a small amount of people buying it to justify it on there end such a bummer.....

[Jandor]

Wouldn't even be so bad if the subscription included a little bit of cash shop money. Then they'd just be veteran rewards that you can get early.

[SokiYagami]

Wouldn't even be so bad if the subscription included a little bit of cash shop money. Then they'd just be veteran rewards that you can get early.

This might actually be a good idea. Give us a little bit of cash shop credit for every month's worth of subscription which we can save up to purchase the cash shop item we like.

[Dualblade]

Money from FF14 was being channeled into FF15 when they went over-budget... I wonder if something like that is happening again...

And when XV was still Versus XIII some of the money ment for it was instead diverted to revamping XIV after the 1.0 disaster. It goes many ways.

[Worldofwarcraft]

No it's not enough. It's enough to cover expenses, and maybe even make a little bit of profit. Why add the emotes behind a quest, when you can just sell it on mogstation for 7 dollars? People complain, but those same people end up buying it anyways, keep saying "we don't like this" but then giving SE your money is basically pointless. The only way to show them is to stop buying it, but people keep buying it :P. To be frank though, this game isn't about passion or love, it's a company. Bottom line is years end revenue and profits. The cash shop help brings up the YOY profit increase. Also I mean 15 dollars a month really isn't much for a company.


Also I keep seeing this whole "Why isn't the money going back to the game?" Because once again that's not the point. every year they allocate a budget for FFXIV, and its up to the devs to use it accordingly. Say they make 100million profit, that 100million doesn't go to the dev team, only maybe 10million does. The other 90 million goes into the SE bank account, which is then used to allocate into other franchises.