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[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.

[Zanfire]

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.

They kept it open because they wanted to fix it for prides sake. If this had been any other MMO from any other company they would have shut this thing down quick. If you think this game would have made profit when they charged at release, your living in a fantasy world.

[Jennestia]

They kept it open because they wanted to fix it for prides sake. If this had been any other MMO from any other company they would have shut this thing down quick. If you think this game would have made profit when they charged at release, your living in a fantasy world.

I'm living in reality -

Running an MMO with zero profit is worse than Running an MMO with a little profit, it only takes common sense to realize this.

You don't shut something down that is making you any kind of profit, you shut something down if it's making you no profit. Most "Free MMOs" almost always has a cashshop tied to it to recoup costs and make a profit, XIV didn't have anything but box sales to go on, not even a cashshop.

Much like when they charge in January, there would have been people who still paid for it and there would have been people who didn't. Other companies also had the option of running it free if they performed poorly, but that's bleeding money which is why they close it down and sell it off, SE decided to take that hit that most companies choose not to.

[Zanfire]

I'm living in reality -

Running an MMO with zero profit is worse than Running an MMO with a little profit, it only takes common sense to realize this.

You don't shut something down that is making you any kind of profit, you shut something down if it's making you no profit. Most "Free MMOs" almost always has a cashshop tied to it to recoup costs and make a profit, XIV didn't have anything but box sales to go on, not even a cashshop.

Much like when they charge in January, there would have been people who still paid for it and there would have been people who didn't. Other companies also had the option of running it free if they performed poorly, but that's bleeding money which is why they close it down and sell it off, SE decided to take that hit that most companies choose not to.

do you really think that they would have had the amount of people playing if they had started charging right away to sustain even server costs? please, what drugs are you smoking....and can i have some =)

[Bowen]

do you really think that they would have had the amount of people playing if they had started charging right away to sustain even server costs? please, what drugs are you smoking....and can i have some =)

Your posts so far have made me lol.
But, seriously, if they don't charge us then this game will die and then we couldn't play it anyhow.
How we feel about it isn't going to effect anything, just be glad SE was so faithful to this game and kind enough to make it F2P for awhile.

[Zanfire]

Your posts so far have made me lol.
But, seriously, if they don't charge us then this game will die and then we couldn't play it anyhow.
How we feel about it isn't going to effect anything, just be glad SE was so faithful to this game and kind enough to make it F2P for awhile.

do you really think the game would have been kept going if they started to charge on day 1?

[PrettyPrincess]

I'm living in reality -

Running an MMO with zero profit is worse than Running an MMO with a little profit, it only takes common sense to realize this.

You don't shut something down that is making you any kind of profit, you shut something down if it's making you no profit. Most "Free MMOs" almost always has a cashshop tied to it to recoup costs and make a profit, XIV didn't have anything but box sales to go on, not even a cashshop.

Much like when they charge in January, there would have been people who still paid for it and there would have been people who didn't. Other companies also had the option of running it free if they performed poorly, but that's bleeding money which is why they close it down and sell it off, SE decided to take that hit that most companies choose not to.

Why do you bother replying to it? Zany doesn't know how the real world works obviously.