FFXIV Legacy and Welcome back campaigns

[Kiroh]

Oh whatever, talking to you is like talking to a wall /peace

It may just be that I'm too used to Tanaka (years of playing FFXI), but I can understand how Rokien might be concerned here, I'd like some clarification too.

That being said, if it is "all inclusive" like most people seem to think... I may have to start calling Yoshi Yoshi-p and squealing like a Japanese schoolgirl whenever he posts. >_>;

[Delsus]

I agree we should have a word from a dev tomorrow just to clarify the pricing, FFXI charged per character, FFXIV was going to, and we can play all classes on one character which negates the need to have more than one character.

It does look like we get the 8 characters per world inclusive, but I am not gonna say 100% on it until we get official clarification.

[Fear]

How many more times do people need to ask this....

Entry Plan - YOU CAN MAKE 1 CHARACTER PER WORLD ON EACH WORLD, UP TO A MAX. OF 8 CHARACTERS OVERALL
Standard Plan/Legacy Plan - YOU CAN MAKE 8 CHARACTERS PER WORLD, UP TO A MAX. OF 40 CHARACTERS OVERALL

It is NOT hard to grasp this fact people....

[Felis]

I agree we should have a word from a dev tomorrow just to clarify the pricing, FFXI charged per character, FFXIV was going to, and we can play all classes on one character which negates the need to have more than one character.

It does look like we get the 8 characters per world inclusive, but I am not gonna say 100% on it until we get official clarification.

I think it is more for new players who is not used to extra fee for more than 1 chars like in FF XI and XIV and would only be confused about the extra fees.

[Delsus]

How many more times do people need to ask this....

Entry Plan - YOU CAN MAKE 1 CHARACTER PER WORLD ON EACH WORLD, UP TO A MAX. OF 8 CHARACTERS OVERALL
Standard Plan/Legacy Plan - YOU CAN MAKE 8 CHARACTERS PER WORLD, UP TO A MAX. OF 40 CHARACTERS OVERALL

It is NOT hard to grasp this fact people....

Yes you can make them, but the information can be seen as ambiguous about the billing, it could be 1 character for the $9.99, then other characters will cost another $1 up to a maximum of 8 per server.

Or it could of course be the 8 characters are included, which is why it needs clarification, yes it seems more like its the latter but we can't jump to conclusions and say you know everything.

Most games that have character limits say something like "Character slots 6 (can buy more)" thats from DCUO, while F2P it is still relevent, its just 40 character slots included in the price is alot more than other games give you.

[Starlord]

I agree we should have a word from a dev tomorrow just to clarify the pricing, FFXI charged per character, FFXIV was going to, and we can play all classes on one character which negates the need to have more than one character.

It does look like we get the 8 characters per world inclusive, but I am not gonna say 100% on it until we get official clarification.

I do agree, we do need a Dev response to clear up some confusion be because it seems that people are having a hard time "including me" to understand... but I still feel.. and these words stand out from all the info we have:

" Basic Fee and Character Fee will be consolidated" Meaning Both will be fused together into one Then they give a price for the consolidated Plans. There's a 2 dollar difference between the 1 Character per server and the 8 Characters per server... as far as I'm concerned if you have to pay a "hidden fee" for Characters when they said it will be Consolidated, when they gave us the pricing for the consolidation tier.. then that would make Yoshi-P bad...

Under the new fee structure, the basic service fee and the character fee will be consolidated. In the case of a 30-day billing cycle, players will be able to choose from the two payment options below,
Entry Plan – $12.99 USD/£7.69/10.99 €: One character per World
Standard Plan – $14.99 USD/£8.99/12.99 €: Eight characters per World

The Above tells me that and it reads like this:

In the case of a 30-day billing cycle, You pay for the Consolidated price of 9.99 (Legacy), 12.99, or 14.99 for both Basic fee and Character fee put together.

This is how I read those lines.

But I give up trying to explain, Let's hope we get a dev response tomorrow about this and end this debacle :P.

[Firon]

Gonna help out the folks who don't understand.

con·sol·i·dat·ed
   [kuhn-sol-i-dey-tid] Show IPA
adjective
1.
brought together into a single whole.

Dear FFXIV Translation Team Please stop using big words cause it seems to confuse some of your player base Thank you.

[Starlord]

Gonna help out the folks who don't understand.

con·sol·i·dat·ed
   [kuhn-sol-i-dey-tid] Show IPA
adjective
1.
brought together into a single whole.

Dear FFXIV Translation Team Please stop using big words cause it seems to confuse some of your player base Thank you.

I right with you brotha.... Though I didn't know what consolidated meant myself and I went and educated myself and LOOKED it up... :/.Its not that hard to use the internet :/.

[Khu]

I am not sure if this was said before, but how is it you can have a "welcome back" campaign that is aiming to capture new subscribers while four of the worlds are full?? I have friends that want to join and play with me but can't because of this. Activated their account and pre-paid for 3 months just to find out that they are unable to be on the server with me. Now what?? Will the worlds be at full population all the way until 2.0 release??

[Starlord]

I am not sure if this was said before, but how is it you can have a "welcome back" campaign that is aiming to capture new subscribers while four of the worlds are full?? I have friends that want to join and play with me but can't because of this. Activated their account and pre-paid for 3 months just to find out that they are unable to be on the server with me. Now what?? Will the worlds be at full population all the way until 2.0 release??

Active accounts will not have time added to their subscription length; however, if there are inactive characters on the account, they will become active for the duration of the campaign.

Their Accounts are inactive under the old servers, all Inactive data were moved to the new Default server, depending how many com back in General will be the kicker. but I don't expect all 500k people just popping back ( though it is a possibility) I just don't foresee a whole a lot of people coming back, and neither does SE ( though they would love for that to happen). And the Active Players on the servers aren't even hitting the full population on the servers.. its the inactive players that are cause the Worlds to "seem" full.

That's just my best guess anyhow :P.