The Trial vs Standard Edition doesn't feel fair

[Fland]

Even if SE managed to turn back a paid acc into a free trial, it won't be a free trial anymore. It'd be some sort of F2P mode, which a lot of FFXIV players are against.

[Katie_Kitty]

Free trial is for people who wouldn't have tried the game otherwise.

[FoxyAreku]

The free trial restrictions are incredibly hefty to the point I wouldn't recommend the trial to anyone past just checking if you like the gameplay.

Join an fc, start using the marketboard, share items with your wife, talk to people, all of these things are things you can't do on the trial, and being able to do them is well worth the price.

[Seera1024]

The free trial restrictions are incredibly hefty to the point I wouldn't recommend the trial to anyone past just checking if you like the gameplay.

Join an fc, start using the marketboard, share items with your wife, talk to people, all of these things are things you can't do on the trial, and being able to do them is well worth the price.

I always tell people who ask when they should move from trial to pay is this:

Stay with the trial until one of the following:

1. You run out of content to do in the trial and are ready for more. IE: everything level 60 and finished with the HW story.

2. You're enjoying the game and the trial restrictions are affecting your enjoyment too much.

[RethDaron]

But the OP already bought the SE version without those restrictions. They can't just turn his acc into free trial with restrictions when he already have access without restrictions before.

That's the whole point of this topic. Other subscription games allow it just fine.

[RethDaron]

And again, you've missed what people are saying.

What happens if when your sub lapses you have:

2 million gil. What happens to that 1.7 million gil that exceeds the limit?

What if you're in a FC? What if you're the leader? What if you're the only member of the FC as you made a solo FC?

What if you own a house or apartment? While it isn't an explicit limitation, it is implied as the cheapest housing is over 300K. And if you're not supposed to have a house, does that freeze your demolition timer?

What if you had items sitting in the mail?

What if you had retainers?

What if you had retainers on ventures?

What if you had retainers selling items on the marketboard?

What happens if they are able to lock things away and then something glitches out and you say lose that 1.7 million gil?

What happens to your ability to play characters that have gone past the limits of the trial? IE: over level 60, into SB content, started a class that was introduced in SB or later - Samurai only needs level 50 after all and can be picked up in Ul'Dah.

It's the what if your account has things that would be prohibited in a free trial. What happens to those things? Is the game coded in such a way that it's capable of dealing with the solutions to that?

I think taking a look at other games that lets lapsed subs come with limitations (WoW, for example) would answer most of your questions.

[FoxyAreku]

I always tell people who ask when they should move from trial to pay is this:

Stay with the trial until one of the following:

1. You run out of content to do in the trial and are ready for more. IE: everything level 60 and finished with the HW story.

2. You're enjoying the game and the trial restrictions are affecting your enjoyment too much.

That's a good way to put it.

[Seera1024]

I think taking a look at other games that lets lapsed subs come with limitations (WoW, for example) would answer most of your questions.

Wouldn't answer the main question at the end: Is the game coded in such a way that it's capable of dealing with the solutions to the above.

I never said there were no solutions to the problems going from sub to limited trial.

[RethDaron]

Wouldn't answer the main question at the end: Is the game coded in such a way that it's capable of dealing with the solutions to the above.

I never said there were no solutions to the problems going from sub to limited trial.

I wouldn't be surprised tbh.

[AethyrSanc]

If someone is having a hard time coming up with $10-$20 a month.. then they don't need to be gaming, they need to get their life together. $20 is basically the cost of lunch at a casual food place.. and thats ONE meal... FFXIV is only like $15 per month, for how many hours of enjoyment??

hell donating plasma once pays $75...

I was 13 years old and was able to pay my own Ultima Online subscription, and pay for my own phone line, AND pay for my own internet (around $120 USD per month for a 13 year old)... all from selling candy bars to kids at lunch and mowing lawns