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Could just go b2p like ESO, that game is in a good place since switching. (Which is what I think he was asking about)

Except games like LoTRO, Rift and ESO demonstrate that the game fundamentally changes character when it goes F2P/B2P and in those three games at least, for the worse, either due to a change in the types of people that play 'free' games or more insidiously the game's designers begin to make content designed at its core to 'drive' Store sales.

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I don't know about the first two but ESO comes out with new content quite frequently and expansions (with yet another one out this summer), it still has a pseudo "sub" feature that lets you have unlimited access to those expansions and a great amount of premium currency to go along with it. Not to mention the cash shop is entirely cosmetic except for a few negligible ease-of-life things. It's much better than it was at it's launch, in my opinion.

That doesn't mean that I am personally for FFXIV to go b2p, I'll pay the sub if I enjoy the game, and I won't go around petitioning for it to go b2p either. Just saying it isn't necessarily always the end of the world if it did.