How SE thanks its current player base

[Edellis]

People are complaining about a growing playerbase in their MMO?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

People are complaining about a growing playerbase in their MMO?

Yep, and there's even people who will whine about a game going on sale because "IT BRINGS TEH NEWBS AND RAUIN MAH GAREMS!"

[DoctorPepper]

People are complaining about a growing playerbase in their MMO?

Haha I think people are just complaining because they want free stuff honestly. :P

[NinjaTaru72]

It's not "free log in weekend" nor has it been referred to as such. It's "free login campaign" and is from Friday the 27th till Monday the 9th. With is a weekend, a week, then a 2nd weekend.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2d0d2686f228b1

[ColorOfSakura]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...teran_rewards/

I wish I could have liked this post more than once.

[StrejdaTom]

I like the free weekends because I want FFXIV to be successful. I just do not like that SE cannot handle even 500K players with their servers and they want more. And by cannot handle I mean that I have to wait 4 minutes to get to Garuda in full party. -_-

[Mardel]

It's not "free log in weekend" nor has it been referred to as such. It's "free login campaign" and is from Friday the 27th till Monday the 9th. With is a weekend, a week, then a 2nd weekend.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2d0d2686f228b1

You have the EU website the American one is poorly translated. "Free login weekend."

[h0tNstilettos]

Celebrate 4mill users by playing with people that didn't want to pay for the game and will clog the servers for a week!

How about something nice for people that subscribe instead?

4 million? There are less than 1 million playing now. Closer to launch there was over 2.4 million, but never got over 3 million. Over the past year the playerbase has dropped over half. End of the year 2014 report for SE's MMOs showed a total combined playerbase from all of their online games at under 1 million. So even if you combined the total of all players from all of their online games it totals less than 1 million. Of course that number has increased again due to Gold Saucer, but no telling how much until it's made public.

[Felis]

Do you feel it's ultimately the responsibility of the developers to load balance the servers properly, or the responsibility of the players who are paying the developers a monthly subscription service fee? Just curious.

Responsibility of the players to choose an average full server instead of an extreme full server.
All what the devs can do and currently do is to lock Balmung for new characters

[myahele]

I think it would've been a better idea to do the free weekend a week after this patch since by then the crowds in GS would've died down and there'll be less congestion.

As of now people are still having trouble in getting into GS. It'll turn kinda turn away these potential re-subs if they see that SE cant get something like this straigtened