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[yTony]

Dear Final Fantasy,

I don't even know how to start this text and I don't have much contact with forums but it came to a point that is extremely necessary to bring this up.

I'm part of a small community in the game, a South American player, Brazil to be more specific, and things aren't really doing good here, not only in Brazil but to lots of south american countries.

I'll talk about my reality, and I encourage you to talk about yours in this thread.

The dollar just hit 5 BRL (Brazilian real, our currency). Our minimum wage is about 1/10 of USA minimum wage. It's getting extremely hard to keep playing just because money. And yes, I know that through Steam our subscription is cheaper but what about your players that have been playing this since before mid HWS, before the game was available on Steam?

We put a lot of time and a lot of effort in this game. Not because we need, not because we're obligated, but because we like! We enjoy playing it! And I do appreciate all the effort you guys put in this game because, in my humble opinion, it truly is the best MMO at the moment and I want it to stay like it for a long time as well as keep playing this game.

Why do we, non-steam players, have to keep paying so much for the subscription?
We always pay more for the expansions, we've been playing this game for much longer and we still do. But now it came to a point which literally 1/8 of your salary, if you're paid the minimum wage, is destinated to FF and I'm not even counting VPN!
I have friends who are literally starting a new character, buying the game AGAIN through Steam because, believe it or not, it's cheaper... All that time devoted for mounts, minions, housing, achievments...

Please, Square, can you try to do something about it?

Thank you.

[Averax]

I sympathize with your plight. In WoW, i have a friend in Argentina that had to buy game-time with in-game gold before they even offered that as an official option, because she said it was basically "pay for wow or buy groceries for the next couple weeks". The sub price needs to be adjusted based on the average income of the target demographic, rather than just translating the value from another, more powerful currency.

[ElazulHP]

People have been asking for years to be able to transfer their licenses on and off of Steam and they've ignored literally everyone. I sincerely doubt your plea will be granted. Sorry. Perhaps if it's too expensive you should consider playing something else? It's probably the only thing they WILL listen too.

[yTony]

People have been asking for years to be able to transfer their licenses on and off of Steam and they've ignored literally everyone. I sincerely doubt your plea will be granted. Sorry. Perhaps if it's too expensive you should consider playing something else? It's probably the only thing they WILL listen too.

I understand that lots of people have asked for this several times and they haven't done much (?) about it. But, as I said, FF is probably the only online game I still have pleasure playing and I wouldn't like it to end like this. Even if I canceled my subscription as some sort of rebellion, SA community is just so small that it wouldn't hurt SE at all.
All we can hope is they feel a little humble, specially in times like this (Covid 19), and offer us, at least, the same Steam link account thing.

[SamRF]

What if they did a subscription for gil system like in WoW. Basically means you can buy a subscription and sell it to other players for gill. If you need more gill, you can sell a subscription and if you need more irl money, you can buy subscription with gil. Would perhaps also decrease RMT activity.

[yTony]

What if they did a subscription for gil system like in WoW. Basically means you can buy a subscription and sell it to other players for gill. If you need more gill, you can sell a subscription and if you need more irl money, you can buy subscription with gil. Would perhaps also decrease RMT activity.

I don't think it would work with Gil, considering we have A LOT of rich people with billions stocked on retainers because of HWS broken market, maybe a new currency?

[Eli85]

Oh, boy, there is a lot of entitlement here. You don't get special treatment because you've played the game for X time. You either can afford the subscription and play, or you can't afford it and you don't.

That's it.

[yTony]

Oh, boy, there is a lot of entitlement here. You don't get special treatment because you've played the game for X time. You either can afford the subscription and play, or you can't afford it and you don't.

That's it.

But you get for not been playing that long :thinking_emoji:

@edit: And by the way, if I wasn't clear enough, I'm not looking for special treatment because I have more game time or something, I'm looking for the same option to pay subscription because it's just not fair, it doesn't matter how you look at it.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

What if they did a subscription for gil system like in WoW. Basically means you can buy a subscription and sell it to other players for gill. If you need more gill, you can sell a subscription and if you need more irl money, you can buy subscription with gil. Would perhaps also decrease RMT activity.

No.
/10char

[Eli85]

But you get for not been playing that long :thinking_emoji:

@edit: And by the way, if I wasn't clear enough, I'm not looking for special treatment because I have more game time or something, I'm looking for the same option to pay subscription because it's just not fair, it doesn't matter how you look at it.

Everyone pays the same subscription. You're complaining about paying the same as someone else.

Grow up, and decide to pay it or not. The game is a privilege, not a right.