Why is endgame loot capped?

[Ransu]

Unlike other games, I pay 10.99€ per month for ffxiv, and it has less replayability than other f2p games like league or pay once games like minecraft. If you believe it's acceptable for a game that requires subscription to have content that can be cleared in 1 day and raids that can be done in 1 week for hardcore statics and 4 weeks for the rest, then I think you are lying or just a fanatic who can't accept criticism. Doing all the MSQ from ARR to Endwalker is a good experience and I don't regret anything, but it could be just as easily turned into a single player Final Fantasy entry and almost nothing would change, people forget this is supposed to be a mmorpg. The only reason I haven't cancelled my sub is that I own a house and have to raid with my static every week.

Oh no, $11 a month... the horror. You have to work for 30 minutes to pay for that month of play time. THE HORROR!

[MementoKoishi]

Oh no, $11 a month... the horror. You have to work for 30 minutes to pay for that month of play time. THE HORROR!

Europe doesn't have 1 single economy like the US, countries in the Balkans that have average wage around 400-600€ per month pay the same price as people in Germany and the UK with wages at 2000€+ per month. You assume everyone has 11€ to throw away each month like you.
Inb4 "gaming is a luxury you aren't entitled to it".

So ... you pay 10.99 Europe a month to turn a game into a job?

If there was a better game out there, trust me I wouldn't be here, but sadly the mmo market is filled either with korean bloatware or garbage like wow. It also happens that my friends are in the static, and we like hanging out and doing current content. I still didn't see you justify the price tag for the amount of content we get though. The story is worth the price you paid for the expansion, but the rest? Active sub to raid once in a while? Maybe you are like the guy above who just has 20 subs running at the same time and using them once in a blue moon.

[Raven2014]

I still didn't see you justify the price tag for the amount of content we get though.

I justify it by seeing I can sometime pay 50$-60$ for a new game that I played for a weekend and never come back to it. Then I looked at how much a pay a month for FF14 and see how many hours it gave me, the cost is well justified.


The funny part is, I used to think subscription MMO is not worth it as a whole. I used to be strictly a SP player and looked at MMO gerne with unmasked disdiance. To a point I would "preach" to anyone who playing MMO that they're wasting their money because after just a few months sub you can just buy a new game instead of "rehashing old content". Until one day, a classmate explained this to me (and I really went hard on him, 'cause he was super busy who don't have that much time to play to begin with):

- He compared it to a trip to the theater.
- After ticket + food + drink + parking, it's usually a $30-$40 outing.
- That's a 3-4h worth of entertainment.

So to him, paying $15 a month, and even if he only got to play a few hours over the weekend, MMO is still "cheap" and worthwhile, as long as it entertain him.

And that's I think the point people on your side keep missing with these question, you're trying to bring up the question as if it's a black&white that can be measure with some kind of fix metric. It's entertainment, you pay for what please you. If the cost ratio is that much of a concern, does that mean all F2P games are good deal? Why is it I'm paying $15 a month to play a game while I can play some other F2P for free?

The answer is simple: this $15 a month bring me joy, the other game do not. I find the game worth paying because it's worth playing, that's all there is to it, what other justification do I even need?

- I paid 60$ for the Witcher 3 and beat it in 80h, never went back.
- I paid 60$ for TotalWar 3 Kingdom: I currently have 1000+ hours on it, and that number keeps going up.

But if you ask me do I regret buying the former? I have none, because they both pleased me in their own way.