Pay to Play Subscription - Cast your votes!

[Holland]

I will gladly pay.

[Grim_Lion]

Not a chance will I be paying for this game. Yet. I simply dont trust them any more and Iam sick of spending my money (3.5k PC, 80$ C.E.) on their development. Iam not an investor. The only saving grace is that Battlefield 3 has really caught my eye, Ive played alot of the beta and now at least have a game that I can use this beast of a PC for. Diablo 3 will also be nice. But its a shame that I had to pay what I did for a PC and go through this mess with S.E. and FFxiv...... NO I think I will sit on the side lines for this one and see how it all plays out.

I will come back when the next free trial is live and give it one more chance.

I also dont trust that this v2.0 is going to be any better.... Well, I will take that back, cause it would be almost impossible to make it worse. But I just dont buy the hype and the idea that all that which is in the letters can be completed in a years time.

[Kopuno]

I will most likely stick around and gladly pay a sub fee. People tend to forget how much money it cost to do what SE is doing, and as others have said, they could have just shut off the servers all together and just rebuilt it then. SE owes you nothing, I played Alpha and bought the collectors edition, and yet even though I have yet to hit 50, I feel I have earned my 70$ worth. Hell, in this day and age 70$ doesn't get you anything. Sure you can go out to Red Lobster or Olive Garden and have a great meal, but again, that's one night of food. Not a years worth.

The amount of money SE has lost, put into this game is massive. Granted SE is a huge company with well funded funds, they are not limitless. If your hurt about 13 dollars a month, you shouldn't be playing MMO's anyways. Theres plenty of F2P's out there that are half of what FFXIV is at this moment.

[Zumi]

Here is why I don't support paying right now. FFXIV still is very unfinished and lacks a lot of features paid mmos should have. I should not have to pay for what really is a beta to help their development. In a paid subscription based game the content should be there already.

Stuff that FFXIV currently lacks or has problems with
*No, AH and mail delivery system.
*No, group search / LFG tool / dungeon finder system
*Laggy UI and battle system
*Lack of Linkshell UI, can't see where members are job levels ect, what level they are, no different ranks/titles, ability to invite/remove manage members.
*overall lack of endgame content once you hit level cap, very few dungeons / bosses.

Almost all this stuff is being addressed by 2.0 but I shouldn't be paying for it when its unfinished.

So that is why I would wait for 2.0 to play FFXIV again hopefully it will be worthy of paying for at that point.

[Fleur]

I am not sure yet. On one hand, 2.0 looks AMAZING! <3 But . . . that is a long way off. I would pay full subscription price for 2.0 or even almost-2.0 in a heartbeat, but this game has so much work to be done to get there. I would be more amenable to a reduced subscription cost, maybe starting at $5 and then halfway through the "transformation" up it to $10, then charge the full amount when 2.0 is ready.

1.18 and 1.19 have brought a lot of great stuff to the game, but there are so many things that "we are still adjusting/need to add/are looking into/will be fixed later" that are minor on their own but that really pile up and irritate me. It would be nice to stick around and watch Eorzea change, though I am not sure it is worth that much to me.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Haven't done a tally on the individuals themselves, but the poll appears to be a 2:1 stay:drop ratio. So a third of the forum community will drop. And I guess they wouldn't be able to post?

Which means the dissatisfaction threads might reduce... But the "I quit" thread might surface for each person unsubscribing instead. And if such were to happen, t'would be potentially constructive for SE to provide a survey when unsubscribing so that a player may indicate the reasons why they're unsubbing, through a list of checkboxes, radio buttons on scales of 1 to 5, and a free form response so that SE can review.

Unless the objective of the "I quit" thread is not to inform SE, but to make a scene with forum community and possibly get others to quit too.

I forget where I was going with this. Ah! I'll pay $13/mo for that. Heck, gimme two more retainers, I'll pay $15.

[lordpyriel]

With alot of other games coming out that ALOT of people are looking forward too, I would think SE would keep it free until 2.0.. This game still needs huge amounts of work done to it to even be remotely worth subbing too.

If the 1.20 and 1.21 patch have all of the stuff they claim it will, then wait to charge until 1.21. They're doing the same with as before, rushing. They cant keep people and charge in nov/dec is the dumbest move they can do.

Now I understand they're pretty much out of money when it comes to this game but that's they're own fault for having no imagination when it comes to an online game. Get new talent.

Anyone willing to pay now instead of waiting until 1.21 is extremely simple minded and therefore are easily entertained by half assed games.. I think SE should turn this into a 3-bit game for them. You'd be better off taking that 10$ and get something more useful like making your G/f or wife somewhat happy so you can get BOOBIES later that night.. A blade of grass deserves 10$ compared to this dull, extremely generic game..

Wait until 1.21 then it looks like it'll be worth the 10 to 15 bucks a month.. Until then, boobies win my $10 for now.

[Misteyes]

I'll hold off until I see information on the pricing and payment system.

$15/month would be too much to pay for the game in its current state, but $8, or even $10 a month, I'd pay (if I didn't have to go through ClickAndBuy).

[Tinydog]

best bet is to just wait until 2.0 comes out and give it a go.

[Kostya]

I'm not paying for it now. Besides the fact that I can't afford a sub atm, there are other MMO's out there that I would rather use my $15 a month on.

I'll come back when they implement new classes/jobs (archanist and RDM are what I'm looking forward to) or 2.0, whichever comes first. Because right now the game for me is a big ball of "meh" and I'm really only still around because it's free...