How SE thanks its current player base

[Andriel]

It's only a weekend, not a full week.

9 days is indeed not a full week. It's a weekend + a week.

[DragonFlyy]

2/27 - 3/9 is more than a week, actually.

Odd that they call it a weekend then have a dates that don't reflect a weekend.

[Gyson]

Oh look Balmung is whining about large populations again. Cry harder... please

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.

[DoctorPepper]

Would be cool if they extended everybodies sub by the number of days people get to play for free, but honestly I don't expect that or think it will ever happen. At the end of the day I'm legacy and the lifetime discount keeps me pretty happy anyways :P

[Shougun]

The selfish side of me thinks, oh mah gawd - there goes getting into the Golden Saucer again. Oh, and all instances will be laggy - great!

But, looks like it lines up with PAX and that tells me they probably have some juicy info to lock in these free subbing players... Thats neat, and with more money they may consider making a server block dedicated to the Aether Data Center, and Balmung in particular lol. "Oh its your fault for asking for all RP players to come, and creating so many alts" I do neither of those thanks, and I joined when the server wasn't full.

[DragonFlyy]

Would be cool if they extended everybodies sub by the number of days people get to play for free, but honestly I don't expect that or think it will ever happen. At the end of the day I'm legacy and the lifetime discount keeps me pretty happy anyways :P

It does say in the requirements that the account has to be inactive to get the free time, sadly. My account is up in 4 days so I won't get the free time. Still I prefer them to do free time, gets more people to play and more to start paying which leads to more revenue for the game.

[Catwho]

Basically, this is a chance for the people who quit because XIV didn't scratch their particular itches to come back and see if the itch is now being scratched.

Whether it's the chocobo racing or triple triad, the addition of the silly time wasters may be just the thing that tips someone from "meh XIV was too boring" to
"by the Twelve COLLECTIBLE CARD GAME!"

As for the question of whether it's up to SE to load balance, or the players - SE does its best to lock down character creation on Balmung, and people don't keep trying to keep making characters on it anyway. Lamia is crowded and heavily populated too, but I haven't been locked out of the Gold Saucer once, surprisingly enough.

[InVizO]

Sorry guys, I have to agree with the OP, allowing pubs into the golden saucer day 1 was a BAD idea, and you would be dumb to think otherwise.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

First world problems.


And every free weekend always brings in the crowd who think it's dumb. Been having free weekends for a long time now and I don't see that changing.

[Anapingofness]

Free weekends are great! It keeps the game out there and welcomes new blood into the game.
The second we stop getting new blood is the second the game starts growing stagnant.

Again, we want this game to keep growing not the other way around.
So bring on the wee sprouts I say! Maybe a good portion of them will decide to stay! ^^