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

[Betelgeuzah]

Not worh the investment for me personally. They could have taken the service down until 2.0 as far as I'm concerned.

[Thanos]

The explanation is Deminia didn't say there's nothing to do as a new player, she said "But there isn't enough content for me as a current player and nor would there be for me as a brand new player." Big difference.

Really? theres isnt enough content for a brand new player?

[Hayden]

I would really like to know a little more about what game we were going to get. Where was this path of the 12 story line going to go, and what about the places unexplored? What role did they have in mind for Ishgard and the Empire? I understand the game we are going to GET will be nearly 100% different story wise than the game we were GOING to get.

That aside,

What it comes down to is this is NOT the game we were given a year ago, so it is hard to tell if we would have paid for it or not. We would all be at low level with a LOT of end game stuff to look forward to (Dark Hold, Moogle fight, Ifrit.) A little bit of mid game content (Toto Rak, First Ifrit run), and even Shposhae for low level content. We would all be in the same boat as far as leveling and grinding and would no doubt find an effective and worth wile system to grind, and not in the content hungry often bored mood we find our selves in now as we all sit at 50.

I think I would pay for it, because I paid for the original game. The real question should be, how many of us would be around one year LATER if the game we were give 1 year ago was this one here?

[Babydoll]

As things are atm I would not recommend this game to any of my friends.. when I feel comfortable doing so I think we should be charged. I usually try to convince a lot of my friends to play the same mmo im playing but I fear if I do now they will get bored, quit and never come back.

As it stands now though I guess I would pay...and play until I got bored.

[shane239]

No. The game in my opinion is still the equivalent of trying to enjoy yourself in a junkyard.

You have obviously never played in a junkyard! There is so much to do :P

And Yes to the original question.

[Thainna]

Yes, I would have paid for a subscription if the state of the game today was released in Sept 2010. I'm paying for it next month anyway, it's just a year late :P Recent changes have made it fun to play. Now if synthing wasn't so zZzZzzz.... O.o

[Zephyrin]

Anyway, yup, I would pay for the game now.
I'm having a lot of fun playing as it is now, not to say I had fun even before, but what's really funny is to play content during development, and thinking about the fact that this is story nobody will ever experience again after 2.0. So the Seventh Umbral Era can only be told by ourselves, and nobody else if they want a good description on how was the game before.

Yup sure ! but what is it exactly ? 2 quests by updates or more ? nobody know that . I dont think i'll pay just for that "pre 2.0 experience" without know more about it.

[Zantetsuken]

Considering that I am planning to pay for it anyways, I'd have to answer yes.

Also, if it was released today (instead of a year ago), we would all be lvl 1 and have TONS of stuff to do... Which means nobody would be complaining about lack of content for at least 4-6 months, and everyone who wanted to play would be paying.

So the question is kind of moot.

[Gugnir]

Yes. The game has chocobos.

/10char

[Lucifer]

You have obviously never played in a junkyard! There is so much to do :P

And Yes to the original question.

There's definitely lots to do, but...well you get the idea.