Free-to-play?

[BigRed5392]

I'm kinda curious to where you got the assumption it would bring less maintenance to the game when the more well known and played FTP games do weekly maintenance to the games. Also more or less the reason why FFXI ended the way it did was as a game itself, its terribly outdated. It can't attract new players due to the sheer mountain that needs to be climbed to advance in the game, unless that player has established friends that play. Something FFXIV or any other modern FTP game where no matter who you are you can just jump right in and play and advance with no trouble has. That said do I think FFXIV will go FTP? Nah, it has enough fans and people that play it on name alone, it will survive.

ff11 is still active

they changed the game a lot, such as removing the locks on content, and adding the trust system. you can go from 1-99 easy solo now cuz of the amount of systems on place.


also i played a large number of fp games and they rarely get updated. the week maint is mostly to shut the servers down, do repair work. Most western mmo do it once a week.

[Aylis]

ff11 is still active

they changed the game a lot, such as removing the locks on content, and adding the trust system. you can go from 1-99 easy solo now cuz of the amount of systems on place.


also i played a large number of fp games and they rarely get updated. the week maint is mostly to shut the servers down, do repair work. Most western mmo do it once a week.

Same can be said for Everquest 1 and other games from the period. They changed a lot to the game to make it new player friendly, but even with those changes there was no wave of new players beating the doors down to the servers looking to play them. Also I've played a good number of FTP games and they're always being updated. It might not always be in the form of major content. Those kinda updates come maybe every couple of months. The regular updates are more or less mini events and things to keep players busy and active while waiting for major updates.

[BigRed5392]

Same can be said for Everquest 1 and other games from the period. They changed a lot to the game to make it new player friendly, but even with those changes there was no wave of new players beating the doors down to the servers looking to play them. Also I've played a good number of FTP games and they're always being updated. It might not always be in the form of major content. Those kinda updates come maybe every couple of months. The regular updates are more or less mini events and things to keep players busy and active while waiting for major updates.

mini events to get you to spend cash when ppl talk updates they mean major patches. i played 28 f2p mmo.