Free-to-play?

[Hamada]

The "F2P" feeling of this game is extremely non-existent in comparison to actual F2P games I've played and worked on in the past. With a sub model, the developers are capable of making the vast majority of content free because they're getting a consistent, steady income. With actual F2P the developers have to make up the consistent profits by designing the vast majority of content purely to milk people's wallets. Yoshi-P was extremely accurate on his words about the F2P market: it is an industry that relies on milking money quickly in bursts than providing a constant stream of content/quality/etc. I've even worked on F2P games where everyone on the dev team explicitly knew it was being designed to last maybe a month or two.

There's also the fact the stuff they're nickeling is extremely optional. There are many F2P games that lock off actual options and UI stuff behind paywalls. I think The Old Republic even locks or used to lock hotbars behind cash. I know quite a few friends who've never payed for retainers or purchased mogstation stuff outside of fantasias, and I'd prefer to keep that stuff optional, than suddenly being forced to pay for basic things integral to gameplay.
You think we're being nickel and dimed now? it could easily be 10x worse in a F2P system. That $15 a month would look like the best bargain in comparison to the horrors a true F2P system could potentially bring. That's why I, and I bet quite many others, would prefer to keep our sub label and deal with the minor nickel and diming they throw at us. it's the lesser of twin evils.

It is a sub model, they should be fixing inventory problems, not trying to make people buy retainers. I do not like the double dipping and the retainers feel far from "optional" It is double dipping, and people fall for it, I am shocked. "It can be worse" does not excuse them double dipping as is. "lesser of the twin evils" is why they are getting away with it, "oh it can be worse" sorry, that does not sit well with me. This game is a F2P locked behind a sub, "it being worse in other games" will not change that view.

They do not need charge for retainers, they do not even put much money back into the game, that is why all the content is copy/paste. They just want to keep milking the player base while pretending like they are not doing so. They just lost 47.97 dollars a month (she added it just now because at times she paid for 7 retainers and ffxi account w/ legacy 6 month price.) because of this mess of a situation from my friend pulling FFXI and FFXIV subs.

Also, I have a better solution how about keep the sub but remove the microtransactions?

I agree, my point though is i want to see one or the other, stop having overpriced mircotransactions behind a sub. Remove the sub, or remove/change the prices on the microtransactions. My friend that I wrote that quit post for is really mad over reading that quote. Ill leave out the more headed comments and just say, all that shows is Yoshi-p is out of touch of the current state of the game, because the prices of things does not fit what he said.