Ffxiv monthly sub isn't stretching & response to PCGAMER article

[ovIm]

What I'm trying to say is that people don't need to be subscribed year round for them to make the profits they are currently making, due to the concept of returners.

Sure, but at the same time - sometimes people don't return. Yoshi P asking people not to retire from the game shows that Square Enix is afraid of the churn rate of their customer base. Sure, not everyone has to be subscribed, but the more people are subscribed the better, its calculatable revenue which is worth much more than single time purchases, and helps cover operative cost of an MMO project. That is the point people are trying to make here. More money is the goal of every company.

Or, in Twintania Titania words: "Bigger is Better".

[BabyYoda]

"pLeAsE dO nOt rEtIrE" do I want my money to be wasted on another NFT project? side project?

NO.. we know 12$ isn't worth it for FFXIV but we do because we know that it is an investment for the future expansions,

like why do I keep subbing? absolute no reason

[Thistles_Leaf]

Wow is just in a better position at the moment. Ironically, messing up their 20th anniversary event and selling a $90 mount hasn't slowed them down.

There's absolutely nothing to do in the game right now. We are getting announcements about what is coming, but in the here and now, there is nothing. Meanwhile, Wow is bursting at the seams.

Also delves. They're so good. Please steal them Yoshi P. Steal them wholesale. The FF version would suck. Just keep the Wow version. It's so good.

Any game that craps on it's paying customers by losing all items in guild banks is not "in a better position".

I am sick and tired of blizzards arrogant, we know better than you and you will do as i say even if we make mistakes attittude. And they want me to give them money after losing all in our guild bank?

Played The Dawnbreaker dungeon? 2 months in and still not fixed the game breaking bugs. Half the time you land on the ship you get sucked into the insides and are staring out through the wireframe, or you get portaled out of the dungeons as if you arew kicked, complete with loading screen, staring at the summoning stone. You are not kicked. Their spaghettice code booted you out to the start from some reason.

I even died in mid air on a taxi flight. A first for me.

How people can defend blizzard at this time is beyond me. THey must be so seriously addictded to dopamine hits that they cant see when they are in an abusive relationship.

This game has it faults i am sure. But does SE treat you liek blizzard does?

[ovIm]

How people can defend blizzard at this time is beyond me. THey must be so seriously addictded to dopamine hits that they cant see when they are in an abusive relationship.

The grass is always greener on the other side, I suppose? Also, people have very short attention spans. Every little scandal that Blizzard did was forgotten the second they pumped out another trailer for Diablo.

That does not mean however that you can't make comparisons to the other big player on the MMO market. And from what I read from the outside (I personally boycott Blizz games and don't touch them with a 10 foot pole anymore), the latest WoW addon is full of content you can play and interact with.

[Dante131]

Any game that craps on it's paying customers by losing all items in guild banks is not "in a better position".

I am sick and tired of blizzards arrogant, we know better than you and you will do as i say even if we make mistakes attittude. And they want me to give them money after losing all in our guild bank?

Played The Dawnbreaker dungeon? 2 months in and still not fixed the game breaking bugs. Half the time you land on the ship you get sucked into the insides and are staring out through the wireframe, or you get portaled out of the dungeons as if you arew kicked, complete with loading screen, staring at the summoning stone. You are not kicked. Their spaghettice code booted you out to the start from some reason.

I even died in mid air on a taxi flight. A first for me.

How people can defend blizzard at this time is beyond me. THey must be so seriously addictded to dopamine hits that they cant see when they are in an abusive relationship.

This game has it faults i am sure. But does SE treat you liek blizzard does?

not now but they kinda turn into a direction we saw from blizzard. Hope they will get the turn around and remember the roots

[VeyaAkemi]

Or, in Twintanias words: "Bigger is Better".

Titania, you are thinking Titania, Twintania is a dragon and one of Bahamut's children, fought as a boss in both T5 and UCOB, Titania is the title of the King of the Fae, with the previous Titania being fought in the level 73 Trial "The Dancing Plague".

[ovIm]

Titania, you are thinking Titania, Twintania is a dragon and one of Bahamut's children, fought as a boss in both T5 and UCOB, Titania is the title of the King of the Fae, with the previous Titania being fought in the level 73 Trial "The Dancing Plague".

shit, you are right. thanks for the correction, I'm going to bury my head in shame now.
/playdead

[Jeeqbit]

Sure, but at the same time - sometimes people don't return. Yoshi P asking people not to retire from the game shows that Square Enix is afraid of the churn rate of their customer base.

For sure, and I am sure Yoshi-P wants to address it. I'm not so confident that he will address it to the satisfaction of most people here nor at their desired pace, but at least he wants to address it.

[KurenXIV]

I spent the most time playing XIV in a long while the other day . . . but that time was spent clearing out my house, working out storage on my retainers and moving all my stuff to an apartment.

I just unsubscribed from the game and won't be coming back unless they turn this game around.

In the past I'd stay subbed because I believed it would help make the end product better but that's clearly not the case.

Shame on SE for squandering every opportunity to make their cash cow better.

[Supersnow845]

For sure, and I am sure Yoshi-P wants to address it. I'm not so confident that he will address it to the satisfaction of most people here nor at their desired pace, but at least he wants to address it.

A commitment to “we might address it just not at a rate you seem fast enough” is a bit rich when they’re sat behind their army of white knights telling people to go play other games for nigh on 3 expansions now

How many players have they already churned from their glacial pace and their stream of bad decisions