Potential Sub Price Decrease

[Stasya]

The amount of content devs put for every major patch (~4 months) does not justify sub pricing model at all. You know where all the money go aswell .... to side projects ....

[Jonnycbad]

Price has been $13.99 for 10 years. With 32% inflation since then, $13.99 in 2013 is equivalent to $18.50 today. Therefore, inflation has worked in your favor and price has decreased.

[Orinori]

Lol what is based about it

The take of being able to access free trial zones when your sub has run out but losing access to non-free zones and content until your sub is repaid.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The take of being able to access free trial zones when your sub has run out but losing access to non-free zones and content until your sub is repaid.

Do you remove all of your gil over 300k?


Forcibly remove you from your fc and house?

[Atelier-Bagur]

you are paying 15$ to log in and nothing else.

patch content is a way to keep people subbed but its not the reason you pay the sub.

lets be real, we're paying for the server upkeep. Not even the content.

[Payadopa]

So, the economic loss of US$30 billion dollars across 3 years in arcade, console and computer video games, coupled with the destruction of the US video console market, coupled with the rise of proprietary game consoles was a great thing?

But you're leaving out the drivel that caused it. And how Nintendo saved the industry. Yes, money was lost, but the games that lead to the decline of customer trust (like E.T.) were a big part. And what do we see today? Overpriced claptraps, filled with Mtx (that can bankrupt you), that barely function even with a day one patch. And while the industry makes billions the actual workers get fired because bottom line. Yes, a crash would be amazing in the long run.

[Payadopa]

Yes, all of what you said has everything to do with square and the fact that XIV is running on an in-house engine, not a licensed 3rd party one.

I was speaking in general terms but you (very conveniently I might add) left out the things that are true for SE and XIV in particular. The absence of physical media being one of them. But it wouldn't be the gaming industry if consumers wouldn't defend multi billion dollar corporations. lol

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I was speaking in general terms but you (very conveniently I might add) left out the things that are true for SE and XIV in particular. The absence of physical media being one of them. But it wouldn't be the gaming industry if consumers wouldn't defend multi billion dollar corporations. lol

Physical media is cheap. It was a fraction of their cost.



I'm not defending corporations, I'm correcting misconceptions.



I'm very aware how little corporations care for their customers. Easy to see with how they treat their employees.

[Thurmnmurmn]

Physical media is cheap. It was a fraction of their cost.



I'm not defending corporations, I'm correcting misconceptions.



I'm very aware how little corporations care for their customers. Easy to see with how they treat their employees.

I was just about to comment this.
The cost of making a game nowadays is massive when compared to before. Physical copies didn't even come close to matching the difference.
Also there's a lot more money that goes into advertising now.

[Saraide]

I vividly remember paying (well, my older brother paying) $80 for the SNES copy of Street Fighter 2: Turbo, and that was 20 years ago. Something has to give with budgets rising into 100+ Million for large games, I'm sure.

Except big video game companies have boasted about record profits for years. The only problem they have in their finance is the increasing costs of paying executives and shareholders who are contributing nothing and are only taking the money brought in by hard working people who then get struck by mass layoffs.