SE consider a free to play option

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... Zumi's self-serving free-loader logic goes here ...

Whether you realize it or not, you have just, in your post, basically revealed the real reason many people want MMOs to be F2P.

Others will usually try to find some other reasons to attach to it, removing their own personal interests from it as much as possible so as to not appear self-serving in their logic.

You, however, have just come out and served up the self-serving, ego-centric mindset of many F2P advocates beautifully.

I don't think you could have summed it up better than you did in this bit:

Would it be more economic for me to have a free to play option yes it would. Let the people who are really obsessed about the game buy all the stuff from the cash shop so I can log in on a more casual once or twice a month basis.

And this bit:

...if people want to buy relic weapons for $50 a pop instead of doing a long tedious quest more power to them, they are helping me play for free after all. I myself have a no cash shop rule in any mmo I play. I am not willing to spend any money on the cash shop, however I don't mind if others do and have better or unique looking gear that I don't have.

Basically... make the game F2P so others can foot the bill for you to play for free, on an extremely casual basis. I love that bit about you having a "no cash shop rule" for yourself, but are more than happy to let others spend as much as they can so you never have to. Brilliant. The hypocrisy of that bit is almost sublime.

Yours is precisely the kind of self-serving, "I want it all for free" attitude plaguing MMOs these days.

But hey, thanks for being honest and not attaching your "logic" to some canned strawman argument.

But, if you haven't noticed, most people in this thread (and in others) are more than happy to continue support SE in creating and maintaining a MMORPG with an on-going sub fee from their own pockets. Those are the true fans and supporters of FFXIV and SE. Free-loaders with attitudes like your own would only bring down the quality of the game, not improve it.