Who is jumping ship once they start charging in November?

[weeble]

i just preordered swtor, while i have the time to dedicate to both ffxiv and swtor easily... i'm still on a flip of a coin on staying. by december i'll have everything 50 so nothing to do, already have nothing to do really but finish off crafts and of course dungeons ...but they aren't putting out enough in the next year ...they can put all of the years worth out in 2months and i still say not enough. someone youtube the once in a life time story for me lol.

merge servers or bust.

[Rowe]

Like I've said before I bought 10,000 crysta the day the game launched and it's been sitting around ever since. I will pay to play when they start charging. I feel I want to support the new Dev team's hard work. I don't fault anyone for stepping away from the game for a while and checking back in at a later time.

[Finneli]

I am a little iffy on staying, I love the game all that stuff but paying for the price of a finished mmo? I am not all that thrilled about paying to play a beta. Of course I am not sure if I would be able to join anyway since SE sucks with billing. I remember FFXI, they announced the verified by visa and the very next day after announcing it, they implement it but only for US PC users. the ps2, xbox and everyone else not in the US didn't have to do it. Sucks cause my card expeired and a new one was in the mail so I was unable to update my account. Do you know what it feels like playing a game for like many years only to have the devs kick you out because they changed the billing process? I wanted to pay but they wouldn't let me.
I love their way of fixing the problem they made it sound so easy. Call the support line and we will help you. The tech guy gave me some simple ways of fixing the problem. 1. ask mom and dad to use their credit card (now at the time I think I was 23, I also had a well paying job at the time, right would my parents laugh or cry?) 2. Get a new bank (thats right I am gonna change my bank so that I can play a $12 a month video game, oh yes) 3. get a prepaid credit card. So yeah, I don't like SE.

[stoned]

just ordered my year sub for wow.... yea i payed a year full sevice for that finished game... i should get my FREE diablo 3 when it realeases and i get FREE beta invite to new xpac. why should i pay for this beta again i forgot.

[weeble]

i don't have a wow sub, but the free diablo3 looked tempting to me ..i crunched the numbers but in the end i said na i'll just buy diablo3 when it comes out and try out the new mmo's coming out. i hear good things bout swtor even though it's not a game i can see myself play for long term. will be fun to try out. ....hopefully i won't feel i need to leave this game for the next year but i'm getting more and more to the point that ..that is my only option. still can't believe they are charging already and how many people actually don't mind throwing there money away to corporate toolbags. oh wells.

[LillithaFenimore]

Hrm... I maybe changing my stance on if I jump ship or not. Hubbie wants to continue playing...that made me grumble...until I started reading some other things saying that some of the changes will be implemented before p2p to at least let us try it out. I think my verdict will hold until then. If I like the changes then I will p2p, even for a half finished game.

I just hope for the love of all things good they fix tanking...because I tell you what...friggen trying to tank on my pug and having my husband play thm....drives me insane! >_<;

[ellohwell]

@ OP

How can I jump ship? They haven't implemented jump yet

[Alyssa]

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Nice to see others who actually understand what a Beta actually is, and don't think it's just a catch-all term to mean "a game I'm not happy with".

Well-said.

We've been playing a live game since Sept. 21 2010.

A live game getting updates, patches, improvements and changes =/= Beta. If they were the same, then most every live MMO out there would be a "paid Beta", even years after they launch as most every live MMO out there gets content updates, bug-fixes, changes, revamps, etc. throughout their lifetime.

You can't test content that isn't there. And as of now, content for 2.0 is not there.

Now there might be a beta for 2.0. Time will tell on that. But if that is the case, when it happens, we will be Beta Testing 2.0 content... Not 1.20-1.2x content.

Oh hai, Shanree! :O


Let me start out by saying I don't blame anyone for leaving FFXIV right now and returning to the game around 2.0 - subscriptions taken into account or not. I totally understand.

However, I'll be sticking around to watch the game grow. A few of my friends and I have been playing since alpha and we're all very relieved that our patience is finally going to pay off. For a year we've been telling ourselves (and our friends): "Don't worry, it's crap now but it will get better!" And now, finally, it is! I gotta say, though, it sucks that we'll have to wait another whole year... but we've been patient this long, and I expect this year to go by "quickly" with the patches between now and 2.0.

Also, we'll be getting a closed beta period for 2.0 on the PS3. It says so in SE's official roadmap: http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Roadmap_EN.pdf

EDIT: I also want to communicate to the DEV team that 2.0 has thoroughly impressed me and that they are 100% moving in the right direction.

[Cendres]

Thankfully I have a job and don't have to worry about that

He he he... It's good to be a grown up.

[RahJah]

Hustled the first time shame on them. Hustled the second time...

Why should we pay them to fix their broken software. It is analogous to a car salesman selling you a lemon and then having the audacity of telling you that he will fix it but it will cost you payments over the next year.

Keep in mind this "car" cost all of us 10's of MILLIONS of dollars collectively. For such a high dollar product they should be fixing it themselves on their own dollar. Also they should give the 31 million back. What a scam. Does this not ERK anyone else. WE WERE HOSED! WE TRUSTED THEIR PRODUCT AND THEY ARE STILL LEECHING MONEY INTO THEIR HUGE BANK ACCOUNTS!