Would you have paid monthly for FFXIV if it was released the way it is today?

[TheVedis]

Like every game that had an expansion.

Ever.

beware logic

people are allergic to it

[KitCat]

Yeah definitely, I'm having fun, even if it's impossible to get an ifrit/moogle party when noone wants a mrd with no primal fight experience :/

If it was released in the state it is in now, and then we had a year of content updates on top of that we'd have a pretty solid game.

Assuming yoshi was at the helm from the start of course.

[Fleur]

Though I will not be paying in January, if the game had been released as it is now and everyone was starting fresh, I think I would have. The game would not have hemorrhaged players as badly, and the planned patches could have helped a lot to keep my interest over time. As it is now though, it feels like SE is playing catch-up in terms of content and is perpetually behind.

The game is still incomplete in some ways, but I like the world and the graphics and the general feel of it enough that I would have paid even so.

[Jynx]

Personally? Yes, this is plenty for a Vanilla release. If powerleveling wasn't such an issue the game as is if launched would have kept me busy for a few months.

So sans powerleveling, Yes I would pay for this game if it was released in this state: Also the reason I will pay when they ask to subscribe.

[Bahn]

Like every game that had an expansion.

Ever.

Most games that had an expansion were complete and did not have a billion things wrong with it before the expansion was released.

[Kymusashi]

/yes, because it would probably be a lot better had it been released in this form. Starting off with current battle mechanics would have been perfectly fine, and there's be enough content to make the game feel more adventurous.

As is right now, as a sudden shift, it's debatable.

[Corrderio]

I'm still on the fence about it. My biggest complaint is Yoshida still hasn't tried to come up with a way to discourage class stacking. Which I find kind of sad from a producer that plays MMOs as a hobby.

[Lucifer]

>Implying 2.0 is an expansion.

No. It's Final Fantasy XIV-2

[Velenia]

Indeed I would ^ ^

[Zanfire]

Like every game that had an expansion.

Ever.

every other expansion changes fundemental combat, crafting, basic features, server structure, graphics engine, coding, online ifrustructure scraps the entire current world and story (and possibly content)

i wanna see those expansions...