gamrTV Weekly - The Imminent Death of Final Fantasy XIV

[MariyaShidou]

Have you ever played a F2P MMO? 99% of the stuff people buy in the cash shops are VANITY items. Costumes, weapon covers, stuff that has zero impact on the character's strength whatsoever and is mostly (if not entirely) just to show their characters off.

I must be playing the wrong F2P MMO >_> because those that I do play, big spenders spend minimum $500 on NOT-VANITY item, and it can cost a few thousands dollars to get the uber leet enchantment you want.

[Forerunner]

Any tl;dw versions available? AKA a script?

tl;dw ->

F2P for a year + Charging soon + SW:TOR = Why bother paying now? Go play SW:TOR.

If I wanted to play a SW MMO, I'd happily pick up SW:TOR but from what I've seen it looks tacky, and I prefer the direction XIV is going, aka, similar to XI (Which rocks) but also, it's got it's own brand new spin on it. (Which also rocks.)

Guy in the video is talking out his ass, this game is gonna get stronger and stronger.

[stoned]

Eh, he didn't really say much of anything. Ignore.

he spoke the truth and u ignored the facts like all you loyalist have done. im sure you dont want it to die but u have no choice. the small group that plays this game will not keep it floating.

[AdvancedWind]

he spoke the truth and u ignored the facts like all you loyalist have done. im sure you dont want it to die but u have no choice. the small group that plays this game will not keep it floating.

How hard it is to accept the fact that SE themselfs said they will keep the game going at the very least till 2.0 even if there's very few players at that point? Are you going to say that "someguy on the internet" is a more reliable source than "the company who makes the game"?

How hard it is to accept the fact that not everyone will suddenly stop playing all and every game and go play Star Wars? Last I heard something like that, FFXIV was going to be a WoW killer.

[Velhart]

Wow, that guy has no personality. I know people on these videos are basically reading off a teleprompter, but this makes it obvious. No one really cares much about gamrTV anyways.

He obviously didn't read about current and upcoming content on this game. While true the population will decrease, but in all fairness, the majority of that are people who are not even really playing the game to begin with. I guarantee I won't see anything different when I log on after subscriptions come back.

[Payadopa]

Man, what a refreshing video!
Filled with valuable, irrefutable proof, based on one guy's opinion...

...on the internet.

Joking aside, I think F2P has its place, sure, but I prefer P2P as one MMO fee isn't going to cost a fortune for me. Making the game item shop based on the other hand...

...now that would kill XIV for me. The differentiation of players should come from skill and team spirit and not from the size of your bank account.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

he spoke the truth and u ignored the facts like all you loyalist have done. im sure you dont want it to die but u have no choice. the small group that plays this game will not keep it floating.

truth? what truth, all I heard was rehashed, half assed, noresearch, dribble.

[Dragon]

No matter what, this project will continue, I think that much is obvious. Hopefully it will be worth the wait, but I'm happy to stay (and pay) in the meantime as I do have a good time with the game, even if I am a dirty casual! Saying that though, most of my money goes towards games, and I currently also have a DCUniverse sub and fully intend to also be playing the Old Republic.

I used to think it was a tough amount of money, but now that I'm working it's like...I can pay for *all* my MMOs in around three hours work on the first day of a month, and for what I get back out of them in terms of entertainment, I think it is completely worth it. Honestly, even if the game was perfect now, like the best game ever, they would lose customers as some folk just aren't willing to pay monthly for a game. Such is life, and it is their choice, even if I raise an eyebrow that they then happily drop down £50 a month or so for Sky Sports without complaint.

Yeah, I'll be paying for TOR along side FFXIV myself while seeing about paying for a few friends' subscriptions all the same. Hopefully one or the other will be payable by the bulk so I won't have to worry about paying monthly at all. (But if not, I got three free months in XIV waiting regardless thanks to crysta.)

tl;dw ->

F2P for a year + Charging soon + SW:TOR = Why bother paying now? Go play SW:TOR.

If I wanted to play a SW MMO, I'd happily pick up SW:TOR but from what I've seen it looks tacky, and I prefer the direction XIV is going, aka, similar to XI (Which rocks) but also, it's got it's own brand new spin on it. (Which also rocks.)

Guy in the video is talking out his ass, this game is gonna get stronger and stronger.

Yeah, I pretty much figured that out after I originally posted it. lol

[Kopuno]

I find it funny that the word fanboi is thrown around so much. It's not his opinion (paid or not) that is to be white knighted against. The fact that he has no clue what he is talking about is what makes the (as you would call them) fanboi stand out because you as a *Hater* which I officially deem Death Knight, want the game to fail. It's obvious the game has done you wrong.

As for Swotr; Almost 4 out of 5 of my friends who have gotten in to beta are already disappointed with it. Swotr will have no real effect on XI/XIV type players, because simply put, much like XI *in general* most people that played XI did so because WoW didn't do it for them.

PS: Btw im'a roll a Jedi Bloodelf Consular, how bout you?

[Molly_Millions]

FFXIV has nothing to worry about, sure the game will lose a few players at first, but as those subs start funding dev work and as better reviews inevitably come out this game will gain paying subscribers. I also have a few friends in the SWTOR beta who all say it's WoW with lightsabers, nothing special.