Why 14,99 $?

[Evangela]

to prevent gil sellers.

[Nysneirdre]

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SWTOR is a good point on that and I came from there to this game. They crashed and burned so bad with their first year. The game has nothing to look forward to now besides cash shop additions and new gambling boxes. I really wish I had an insight to what happen behind the lines in Bioware after the crash. I know they kicked most of their senior develops to the curb, they forced out the owners and the game almost went under before the first year was out. Now if we could get these current age MMOs to stop catering to dumbed down casuals we would be set.

[Nici]

My personal aversion to F2P comes from personal experience. Once a game goes free it almost immediate drops in quality as resources are poured into the cash shop.

I agree with pretty much everything you said, the only f2p game that still surprises me with its content is The Secret World, that game has some great quest storylines, the only reason i'm not playing that game still is because ARR has pretty much all my attention at the moment, i may get back to it at some point.

[MichuAmane]

I am playing TSW ( very easy to do since FF gives me so much free time) and i have to tell you i am thoroughly enjoying it. Zombies and guns and really nice fashion - makes me happy.

But I digress, $14.99 is not terrible i guess. Nothing would be wrong with cheaper tho - unsure where the hate for op comes in about a lower fee. If some one wished the coffee at your favorite place to get it would be cheaper, would u vilify them too? I know the price won't go down but nothing wrong with a little over optimistic hope.

[CYoung187]

I get plenty of entertainment for my $13, don't see the complaints. I would gladly pay 20 if it meant more content coming faster.

[CYoung187]

I am playing TSW ( very easy to do since FF gives me so much free time) and i have to tell you i am thoroughly enjoying it. Zombies and guns and really nice fashion - makes me happy.

But I digress, $14.99 is not terrible i guess. Nothing would be wrong with cheaper tho - unsure where the hate for op comes in about a lower fee. If some one wished the coffee at your favorite place to get it would be cheaper, would u vilify them too? I know the price won't go down but nothing wrong with a little over optimistic hope.

If the coffee started tasting sh**ty then yeah it would be bad. A cheaper sub would mean less content expansion. Easy concept, you get what you pay for.

Most people don't walk into gas stations and ask them why isn't gas $1/gal? They know the answer.

[Zarzak]

I mean, I understand that FFXIV doesn't want to hit the F2P road yet, but why 14,99?
Why doesn't this or any other P2P game apply a lower fee? It's there some market rule out there of which I have not been informed who forces them to have exactly that price?
Wouldn't it be more right 9,99? Or even 7,99?
They are forced Worldwide to not compete against each other or what?
It seems it's either nothing or 14,99. I don't get it.

It's been what, 10 years since Vanilla Wow?
The MMOs changed since then.
Why prices didn't?

Contrary to seemingly popular belief the MMO world didn't begin with WoW... It was more of the Apocalypse.

But using your "MMOs have changed since then"
MMOS were originally under 10 don't remember exact prices... games have come a long way. There is a lot more data. Better servers, more internet speed needed, etc.



As Rekujen said. If $15 is too much you have other problems. That is 50 cents a day. If you average an hour a day you are getting the cheapest entertainment out there besides playing kick the can


Just going to ignore the F2P suggestion due to it being horrible

[Swishytail]

If Yoshi went back on his word and this game went free-to-play or pay-to-win I would drop my
subscription that day. As would many others I play with. Both of those models are terrible.

[Kimikryo]

I would not back out of it, if it would become free to play.

What I would dislike at an f2p ARR. The possibilties of it evolving will be slim to zero. I don't exactly know what happened to Aion. I don't know how it is faring atm. But if I would have bought that game, been a payiong customer, and than the (for me) sudden change. I would have been annoyed.
Why I would not back out? Because I love the world and the loving detail of everything.

You know, it is easy to say "If you can't afford 15 a month, you have other problems" lets put it nicer "If 15 are to much for you per month for a game, you should maybe get your priorities straight"
For me, I quit smoking, buy cheaper but not cheap food, so I can sustain the hobbies I like and quit hobbies I cant currently afford (bye bye 2/3 FFXI accounts)

[Lexia]

I mean, I understand that FFXIV doesn't want to hit the F2P road yet, but why 14,99?
Why doesn't this or any other P2P game apply a lower fee? It's there some market rule out there of which I have not been informed who forces them to have exactly that price?
Wouldn't it be more right 9,99? Or even 7,99?
They are forced Worldwide to not compete against each other or what?
It seems it's either nothing or 14,99. I don't get it.

It's been what, 10 years since Vanilla Wow?
The MMOs changed since then.
Why prices didn't?

You lost all credibility the moment you mention WoW would you prefer they went the XI route $12.99 plus $1 for every extra character you want.