Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
Well Wildstars is not that successful as FF14 thus they have less people playing it. But at the same time they are able to have no sub, you can earn the currency to buy things from their cash shop and yet somehow they can still survive and create new content. (I dont play the game so I cant say how good or bad the content is but that is subjective anyway)

So what I am saying is: Somehow people say that FF14 needs the cash shop to survive because the costs are so high (which we dont know) and are otherwise not able to buy these things like the EU and NA servers, yet we have to pay a sub, buy each new expansion at a high price and on top of that the cash shop is priced quite high too. If wildstar somehow manages to survive on their model with less people playing their game, shouldnt FF14 do so too with their subscription model alone?
I'm confused. Wildstar is free-to-play, which means it's entirely supported by cash shop purchases and premium subscription plans. How does that imply that FFXIV could work on a subscription without a cash shop? That's exactly the opposite model.