Seeing Square Enix in a new light. I am grateful for this game.

[Vstarstruck]

It may have a sub but thanks to that sub the game has actual quality unlike tera. I would rather pay for something that is fun and quality and not pay for something that is junk and bores me. Your analogy is terrible anyway. Sitting on my butt all day doing nothing is free, but that doesn't mean everyone would rather do that instead of buying ps4 to play games instead. Besides if ffxiv did so much wrong then why are people still subbed and playing, why is ffxiv successful? It speaks for itself really. From what ive heard the tera port is blueholes way to get a final cashgrab before it bites the dust. The game is just crap imo even if it is free. I've played free games before that were farm more enjoyable than tera. Saying tera is free doesn't justify that the dev team has a job to do and instead of doing that job and trying to do a good job they basically just let the game go without important prioritization of it's updates and let it rot as far as its quality is concerns. SE and Bluehole both have a job to do and get payed, the only difference is SE actually tries/does a good job and knows how to prioritize important issues versus menial issues with its game, and Bluehole doesn't.

Issue, FFXIV is not exactly giving quality, that is what rokke means. The point is you think the quality be there in comparison of the cost, when it isn't. They been doing the same thing since 2.0 (generally, Palace of the dead is he only real big thing worth noting there is something different)

"difference is SE actually tries/does a good job and knows how to prioritize important issues" Put it simply, no they do not. They slacked off housing too much, only putting in real effort when outside media got a hold of it, makes a change to content 2 expansions old that very few want. They are making a change in 4.3 that is exclusively to pander to the Japanese audience. Finally they hardly even "try" when it comes to communicating with NA/EU player base. What about the maid attire promotions where most EU countries got thrown under a buss?

In the mist off that, overcharging the mog station items, adding extra costs to a basic UI feature that should been in the game at the launch of 2.0, but did not because they wanted rush it out, now they want to charge extra over their sloppy code

Server issues, having slow response such as:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ce#post4641999

The game.. has ... a lot of hidden problems.. that people look away and stay stubbed. Based on the Eureka threads "because things can be fun with friends" is likely the biggest reason stay subbed, because it is there, so on.

Also I believe this is fitting for "Besides if ffxiv did so much wrong then why are people still subbed and playing, why is ffxiv successful? It speaks for itself really"

The results of one thing they clearly stated with rushing out 2.0:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4565795

I think your only point is that you are glad it is not as bad as tera, but the thing is, there are games that do things better then ffxiv too...