Why 14,99 $?

[Mhaeric]

MMO pricing used to be a standard $9.99/mo. Now it's $14.99/mo. Do you really want it to change? Because when eventually does change it will be more like $19.99/mo.

[TitanACU]

i payed like $47 for 6 months...great price for me

[Skyhound]

Why do you think anything is priced the way it is? That price is specifically calculated to not only play maintenance fees of keeping the game up, the wages of the teams that fix and design aspects of the game, to keeping these forums up, to advertising the game, to distributing the game, to the wage of the janitor that clean's Yoshi P's office. Not only that, but it also HAS to generate maximum amount of profit AND it has to remain competitive with existing and upcoming competition.

The gaming industry is anything but stable, we should be thankful that the price hasn't increased in so long. Do you see single player games dropping in price? No, they're going up. The fact that FFXIV put SE in the black is a business miracle no matter what anyone says, especially since they decided to provide hard copies for the PS3 version. There is no doubt in my mind that the SE CEO was losing sleep over that decision because it would have been a tremendous loss and possibly put SE out of business if the idea didn't work. Remember, SE was complaining about the cost of physical game distribution cutting extremely deep into their production budgets.

Like I said, be thankful. Look at TESO, that game is $60 + a MINIMUM $15 sub fee; Forbes magazine had a field day tearing them a new one over that decision.

[jars]

it's $13 a month

[Mezolitik]

Like I said, be thankful. Look at TESO, that game is $60 + a MINIMUM $15 sub fee; Forbes magazine had a field day tearing them a new one over that decision.

This kinda thing continues to strike me as slightly odd.

I've seen reams of stuff tearing TESO to pieces for having a sub fee and a purchase fee, yet the same people don't even acknowledge FFXIV, which has exactly the same payment model AND stands as possibly the only direct competitor to TESO on the PS3/4. They're both around $15 for the basic membership and both require a pre-purchase.

Why is it perfectly acceptable for Squenix to do it but not Zenimax/Bethesda? Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with the model (or the games); it's just that the market seems really biased against TESO.

[Nici]

This kinda thing continues to strike me as slightly odd.

I've seen reams of stuff tearing TESO to pieces for having a sub fee and a purchase fee, yet the same people don't even acknowledge FFXIV, which has exactly the same payment model AND stands as possibly the only direct competitor to TESO on the PS3/4. They're both around $15 for the basic membership and both require a pre-purchase.

Why is it perfectly acceptable for Squenix to do it but not Zenimax/Bethesda? Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with the model (or the games); it's just that the market seems really biased against TESO.

I'd like to think its just the company to "hate on" at the moment, most vocal people are ones that don't think that a TES game should have been given the MMO treatment and should stay a single player experience game.

[Felis]

They're both around $15 for the basic membership and both require a pre-purchase.

Basic fee in FF XIV is $13

[Mhaeric]

This kinda thing continues to strike me as slightly odd.

I've seen reams of stuff tearing TESO to pieces for having a sub fee and a purchase fee, yet the same people don't even acknowledge FFXIV, which has exactly the same payment model AND stands as possibly the only direct competitor to TESO on the PS3/4. They're both around $15 for the basic membership and both require a pre-purchase.

Why is it perfectly acceptable for Squenix to do it but not Zenimax/Bethesda? Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with the model (or the games); it's just that the market seems really biased against TESO.

I think it's because they're marketing the game as being the same type of immersive Elder Scrolls game they know and love (it just happens to be in an MMO format for the first time in their very successful series). So you end up with this large contingent of people who want the next Skyrim, but have either never been exposed to the p2p model of MMOs or don't want to have to pay it. The most common thing I see is people saying it should be f2p, but not understanding that the f2p model comes with a whole different basket of cherries which would probably ruin the whole immersive thing that ESO is going for.

While I can't speak to the JP market, FFXI had a very similar outrage when it came out in NA iirc, although I think a lot of it was deflected by and directed towards the extra costs needed to play it on the PS2 at the time ($99 for the HDD on top of the cost of subscription,) so the subscription model complaints took a back seat. FFXIV didn't have this outrage, because the series had already broken that ground, and the fans knew what to expect.

[Slatervonjager]

Why do you think anything is priced the way it is? That price is specifically calculated to...

Yeah, i'm pretty sure almost all of that isn't true. If this were the case, EVERY online game would carry a sub fee, yet only a handful of games do(compared to the entirety of online games, and not counting lamebox live). No matter how simple you may think the game to be(lets say CoD for example), there is still lots of maintenance involved, staff, etc. The point of the Sub fee is strictly for revenue and creating a budget that allows them to create new content. In this game's case, I'm sure the majority of the sub fees are used to recoup from the losses sustained by 1.0. If Square had the money that one of the bigger developers has, this game would probably be F2P, or would have a much lower sub fee. Square doesn't have that money, but hey, at least it's not broke off it's ass like Capcom.

[Nici]

I mean, I understand that FFXIV doesn't want to hit the F2P road yet, but why 14,99?

I seriously doubt XIV will go F2P, just look at SE's other title FFXI...it never went f2p, for a short while FFXI and WoW were the ONLY p2p mmos on the market, SE has the capital financing that most companies don't have and don't have the need to have their mmo IPs go f2p.

12.99 and 14.99 is a good price point for this MMO in my opinion for the quality content SE is making for this game.