How to pay for FFXIV

[Zumi]

The new team has been hard at work to turn this game around, all while letting us continue a game that, let's face it, is still fun to play in spite of its flaws (And if it's not fun... why are you playing?). They're putting out more changes than most other online games out there, and for the past year this has all been FOR FREE.

We are being given the chance to play in an online game that truly embraces what an online game can be by letting us live in a changing world, one in which we are the players in a grander stage, and unlike some epic quest in other MMOs, this won't be something you can do again and again, something that will always be a matter of the present. It will be something that was most definitely "in the past", adding history to the game. How many games out there can boast that its players can be part of a living history, to be there as events unfold and be part of a living, breathing narrative? This is a unique aspect of gaming, and one I eagerly anticipate being a part of. I dunno, somehow I feel that's worth $15 a month.

The thing is there is a lot of free online games that work better then FFXIV does. Just because it is online doesn't mean it deserves a fee. Especially when SE themselves said its only about 50% done. A lot of the faults that FFXIV has makes it not fun. It definitely wasn't nice of them to sell FFXIV in such a unfinished state, under the illusion we were buying a high quality finished product. I don't feel like I even got my money's worth when I bought the game.

Like I said a lot of games offer free online play with just the purchase of the game and they work much better then FFXIV does currently. Which is why they shouldn't be charging until the game is done.

Sure I'll try 2.0 out when it goes on free trail again but I will not be paying to play a unfinished product that is still below standards out of principal.

Will people please stop bitching about the payments starting up, guess what? It's a game company and without money THERE IS NO GAME.

Quit acting like SE didn't make any money off this. They sold all those $80 collectors editions. And FFXIV sold around 500k copies was it.