Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Azorex]

I'm not a steam user (playing from start of Realm Reborn). But I am Russian. And many of my friends want to drop a game. Triple increace of subscription and 5 or more retainers. Not too many peopple want to pay THAT price, even for your game.

It's about 1/3 or even 1/2 of all who I know will leave game soon.

You can try to calculate how is your profit falls.

[FeliX_Leonhat]

Nice one SE, even though I can pay the monthly, I will quit cause all my friends will leave the game. Goodbye FFXIV, 3.5 years were a nice time

[TheSade]

I am a brazilian FFXIV-Steam player and I've been following this thread. While this increase on the subscription doens't affect me so bad in a way to fully drop the game, I would like to point that the way everything was done makes me really sad: An uncommunicaded increase in sub less than one month after Stormblood realease. To see that we are not worth a single official announcement is what saddens me the most, this could all be done in a more respectful, dignified way.

I would also like to point that I always recommended this game to friends and was also planning to buy the PS4 version, now I'll be doing neither.

[Esmart]

Again, PS3 users was WARNED that they would have to spend more money to play Stormblood. If it was the same with this "adjustment", it would be fine. Sad, but fine. What actually happened is not fine at all.

[Rita1989]

A good excuse to return to WoW. Requested to refund for Stormblood in Steam.

There is 0 chance of a steam refund at this point, SB basically gave you the full value of a normal game anyways.

Due to the Canadian dollar dropping I have seen the price go up and up and currently and as full time student have a limited disposable income and have had to budget carefully if I wanted to keep playing, even taking a month or 2 off of the game at times.

Brazil and Russia are similar but your currency has dropped even more but had been allowed to pay the same price while SE received less and less so they are 100% justified in asking fair value from you guys.

[Texa]

I am a brazilian FFXIV-Steam player and I've been following this thread. While this increase on the subscription doens't affect me so bad in a way to fully drop the game, I would like to point that the way everything was done makes me really sad: An uncommunicaded increase in sub less than one month after Stormblood realease. To see that we are not worth a single official announcement is what saddens me the most, this could all be done in a more respectful, dignified way.

It really seems like SE was trying to have their cake and eat it too with this one. Many people in other countries wouldn't have purchased Stormblood at all if they knew this was going to happen so the change is stealthily applied a month after release. It's a very, very bad look for SE to not give people advance warning and waiting to do it right now. If they wanted to up the price, fine! But it should have been announced like the drop in PS3 support was.

[Osh1mA]

Brazil and Russia are similar but your currency has dropped even more but had been allowed to pay the same price while SE received less and less so they are 100% justified in asking fair value from you guys.

Well receiving less better than zero lol.

[Nezia]

There is 0 chance of a steam refund at this point, SB basically gave you the full value of a normal game anyways.

Actually if Valve deems that the game publisher did deceive the buyers in some manner(which just happened here) they will open special case refunds for these games, happened with skyforge and latest batman game(can not remember the name).

[aekh]

...Wow.

I understand we aren't numerous enough to cause a significant drop in what SE earns from ffxiv if we suddenly decide to stop playing the game or something like that, but I think we still deserve to be treated with the same amount of respect and courtesy as other players. If there were changes on the base subscription price, SE would've definitely announced it beforehand to all players - why don't we get the same treatment when they decide to change their exchange rate for international players? I'm sorry, but this is just plain disrespectful.

Lots of us have invested money in buying Stormblood, expecting to play it for at least a few months. Why couldn't you announce this change BEFORE releasing Stormblood? I can't help but feel cheated.

I don't even know what to write anymore. This is absurd.

[Rita1989]

Well receiving less better than zero lol.

It will balance out though even if they lose some subs they gain more from the ones that remain