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

[xxMaplexx]

Yes, I have faith in this game!

[neorei]

yes, this is consider a launch product imo, if it's going to recover......i don't know.

[Kiote]

Yes /10 char

[Physic]

With the combo system giving us free weapons skills constantly, basic attacks would make it an unbearable spam fest with little chance/reason to use other abilities.

But I guess some people would prefer that because it requires significantly less thought and they can pretend like they are being more "interactive" by mashing their "one go-to button".

that doesnt even make sense, how does having basic attacks like we had before make it a spam fest? you can only do them periodically? not to mention i dont remember too many people complaining about spam in 1.19, in fact i remember most melee saying combat was pretty fun. Sitting and waiting on tp is boring, even if its only 15 seconds of boredom, in a 40-60 second fight, thats 25% of the time.

And while there are options for tp like invigorate, invigorate will soon be only useable on 1 or maybe 2 classes. The wait to do anything style of play is not the best idea they had, it wasnt in ffxi, and it still isnt here.

Aside from that i think combat is still entertaining although different, but you are completely BSing yourself if you think it would be impossible to have actual skills you use early in the fight without being spammy. go look at 95% of combat in anywhere else.

[Sephrick]

Still trying to figure out why so many of these nay sayers are still playing this game if they think its just that bad...

wouldnt you just move on or get a <gasp> rl hobby

/confused

will be interesting to see how many of these ppls will still be here complaining once we start having to pay. quick someone make a list of names!

Because I enjoy interacting with my linkshell, even if it is in a broken shell of a game. As long as I have them, I'll stick around and take on whatever the game offers.

If I didn't have Rabanastre SeeD, I'd have quit till 2.0 a long time ago.

[Avamaria]

that high? id score more like 10% now the way it looks the controls are all messed up nvm the spells in con/thm totaly mixed up why is anyone even still playing? i remmber the fired the last dev team for less .
i loved the game when it came out i played and enjoyed myself playing whit others it is after all my first game i played online
now i cant get people together anymore the ingame comunity is gone i cant compleate the bowls of embers quest since i cant get the required 8 nor can i do the new feast of fools quest for the same reson
so to answer youre ? "Would you have paid monthly for FFXIV if it was released the way it is today?
Just wondering. " if i startd now instead of a year ago i wuld have left allready and canzeld my subscrption be it monthly or yearly

[KaiKatzchen]

Yes

/10char

[Yumi_Hibiki]

Without a doubt.

[Mireille]

Yes,

I stopped playing about 2 weeks before they released the old management team from service, and began playing again around the time 1.16 was released. I saw the potential of the game at launch and I when I came back I saw that the new team has moved forward towards realizing that potential. I would however say the game is more like 35% ready not 50%. V2 is now the new standard for 100%, and we have a long way to go before getting there.

Jobs
Artifact armor quests
Zone redesign
Overhaul of synthesis system
Mog Houses
Pet Raising System
Pet Jobs
Summoner (yes its a pet job, but its a FF staple and deserves its own mention.)
PvP
Events for more than 8 people (Alliances and dyna/limbis/salvage type events please)
Story content that isn't bland.
New races like Female Roe and Male Miqo'te
Replacement of remaining dated recipes.
Replacing dated recipes with non dated ones in craft leve.
New UI.
Artifact weapons.

All that together adds up to more than 50% and I haven't listed all of it. I am more certain that they will get there so I have setup my sub based on the promise of things to come. The move to reduce the fee was the right one, but I would have paid either way.

[Fensfield]

Oh, I'll be paying. I'm having fun, I have friends..

But right now I'm very on the fence about where the game is going. I'd have been more enthusiastic about paying for the game under how Hiromichi Tanaka seemed to intend for it to eventually be, even with all its flaws - I had so much more hope and saw much more potential.

At this point, however, I'm paying for the fun I'm having now, and the hope that v2.0 will be genuinely, genuinely good, and just as worthwhile as the original plan's goal, if not more.

The really annoying thing is, I'd have been really enthusiastic about that direction had I not gotten enchanted by Tanaka's goals first.. now I can't help but compare the two, no matter what, and despite all its flaws.. right now, the original direction seemed worth more as far as go the things I care about.

So to answer the question proper?

Yes, I would have paid monthly for the game if it were released as it is now - and.. I'd probably be a damn sight more enthusiastic about it, too. In a way, I really wish it had been like that (not as much as I wish for other things, but hey).