subscription fee starting is not right

[Blarp]

How do you become a no lifer in this game? I've played F2P games that were way more addicting than this game is.

[Ilean]

lol ignore these badies. they realy do have no life thats why same 20 losers are on first page trolling. sad part is they ran out of material months ago and pray for subs so they can stroke each other after the games loses 90% of the population it has gained from the flop of a release.

QFT ^

Funny how it's us who "rarely play" that are truly worried about the game losing people over premature charging...

[ssppiikkeeyy]

yea i think it's a little early for SE to start charging as well but i understand why they have to do it and i'm shcoked they havent done it early. SE gaves us over 1 year free memebership to the game which was nice of them most game companys would make you pay for it while they fix it, SE were nice enought to gave it to us for free

[Eeam]

Let's be honest people, what we've been playing for this past year was an over-glorified beta. The way I see it, after 1.20 the game will finally feel like it should have felt... At launch. And as a newly launched game, I think FFXIV is polished enough to last until 2.0 (The first REAL content update.)

[Coglin]

You are so cool man, you became your own boss, now you can spend your whole life playing an MMO and acting like you are better than those of us living balanced and healthy lives.



Grow up, your poor family deserves better.

Your definently not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you? Your the opened the can of worms about players free time. If we have it from being our own bosses then thats worth mentioning as our justification. Some of us are retired and make our own hours drawing out a solid living part time at the poker tables. If he is his own boss, then hell yeah he is cool, its not easy to do. Appearently you can't do it. Just because you feed your kids on the double shift pay check from flipping burger it McDonalds, doesn't meant you need to project your anger on everyone who post.

By the way, how many times a day do you ask "Do you want fries with that?"

[Alkoun]

This thread will soon die... inb4 lock

[Bowen]

Why can't everyone stop being @ssholes to each other for five minutes?
Pulling the no-life card? REALLY!?

[Zanfire]

yea i think it's a little early for SE to start charging as well but i understand why they have to do it and i'm shcoked they havent done it early. SE gaves us over 1 year free memebership to the game which was nice of them most game companys would make you pay for it while they fix it, SE were nice enought to gave it to us for free

no they were not nice to give it to us, they had no damn choice. If they started charging back then especially, this game would have been shut down a long time ago. I just dont get why people think its nice of them to not charge us for the absolute trash of an MMO they sold to us. They messed up so bad they publicly apologized. People need to stop giving them pity and after they start charging treat it exactly like they had just bought it, so if there is flaws (which clearly there is until 2.0) you can give SE crap until its fixed, because you are now paying for it.

[Jennestia]

no they were not nice to give it to us, they had no damn choice. If they started charging back then especially, this game would have been shut down a long time ago.

Actually, the game wouldn't have been shut down, if anything it would probably have still made a profit versus keeping it free for a year.

If it didn't shut down during a free year, it wouldn't have shutdown while it was being charged. MMOs that get shutdown very quickly are usually because they're not WoW clones or because they can't compete with established MMOs of 5 years+, which means a new MMO has to compete with some MMOs that have sometimes 4 expansions worth of content which is near impossible without copy/pasting content.

[Maxthunder]

The right answer exists. You can hide behind the "all opinions are equal" card but the fact is that there are good and bad solutions to the problem.

SE isn't obliged to fund server upkeep for those who play this game as if it were a good one. Some people would rather pay for the service than see it go away unfunded. The solution is quite clear.

I find this to a point unacceptable in the fact that Square Enix, released a game 15 months ago that was incomplete. This desicion alone was a major mistake on their part. SE has since stated that they need to rebuild the game, and it will relaunch next year for the PC and the PS3 version will soon follow. Now players (not all) dont want to pay to play. I understand both views but instead of complaining about those who will or will not pay, maybe all the players both who will and wont look at who is responsible for this game and let those people know that what they did was unacceptable. Now thwe big question is HOW or WHAT is acceptable? Maybe instead of charging 9.99 per month or 30.00 for 6 months they lower the pay to play fee to say 5.00 no adding in an extra 3.00 for this or that. Now once the ffxiv 2.0 is ready and is launched every gets the same 30 days free, after that the fee would be 12.99 per month, and of course the discount if you pay for the game for a few extra months. This is only my opinion but in fact it would most likely entice those that dont want to pay to play at 9.99 a month etc to actually stay. As it stands now some servers have hardly anyone on and trying to form a party is a chore in itself. Now some have said lets do as server merger, well that shouldnt be done either. See once 2.0 is released we will have lots of people on very few servers, and those that are gonna start playing via there PS3 will find there servers empty. On top of that you will have all the PC player who started playing before the PS3 version launch and they will all be on a few servers. This in itself will create the same issue we have now with server populations. I personally dont want SE tell me or forcing me when 2.0 launches to go to another server, that would be very unacceptable. I have no problem paying to play so its not an issue.