I Told Ya (Price Reduction)

[Wynn]

There have been games that have switched to a F2P or F2P-ish model and have seen their revenues increase.

Yes, because they were failing so badly. It's not hard to see an increase when you are already at the bottom of the barrel.

[Rokien]

You didn't tell me nothing.

[Rentahamster]

Yes, because they were failing so badly. It's not hard to see an increase when you are already at the bottom of the barrel.

And this game isn't?

[Darkrose]

This post crack me up. You say you predict it right? $5 a month? NOT! Read the fine print better. It said $5.99, that is $6.00 and only apply if you pay for 90 Days which give you discount. Add on top of that $3 for Character slot make it $9.00. You also NEED a character slot to play the game. You cannot play the game with no Character slot, so that $3 is required! Where is the $5 you spoke of? It is none existence. This thread is FAIL.

[EdenArchangel]

A character slot is included in the $5.99. The $3.00 character charge is for extra characters.

From : http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...yopemeopw.html

* One character save slot as well as a basic service fee is required to play FINAL FANTASY XIV.
* The price for one character save slot is $3.00. An additional $3.00 charge will apply for every additional character save slot.


Then again, this is all on the first page of this thread so...

[Jennestia]

Technically Wada told us ;o

[Rentahamster]

Technically Wada told us ;o

After I did ;o

[Hypnotoad]

http://youtu.be/VKVTmx1zos8

You don't know nothin... bout anything...

[Rowyne]

no kidding, could they make it anymore complex lol, so basically it's this.

So if we pick 180 days that's 6 months about. So we get about 30 dollars. But on top of that we have to add 3 for each 30 days for an additional 18 dollars. I think what bothers me is how they try and make it look like a good dead by only showing the price per 30 day, but throwing in that you are forced to pay for each character slot just feels odd. maybe XI is the same way but it feels like the first slot should be free lol.

Though the chart should read like this
30--6.99(9.99)
90--5.99(26.97)
180-4.99(47.94)

To me it just feels deceptive to have it the way it is right now but that's just me. But honestly I did look at it say, wow 29.94 that's a nice deal, then the fine print says no wait you have to do 3 times 6 to get the actual amount after you add it to that fee to get the actual amount lol.

^ This. Once again, SE makes something that should be simple nothing but a convoluted mess. Some think they're getting a bigger discount than they really are, others look at the character fee and it's off-putting. They should have bundled the first character in with the fee, and stated that additional characters would cost $3 each.

When you can finally look at the chart in the above simplified form, you can clearly see that all we got was a $3 discount.

To get back to Rentahamster's point, I don't think it's enough to keep people who were on the fence. I truly think they needed to go 50%.

[Wynn]

And this game isn't?

Uhhh, I'm pretty sure that was my point when I said:

All I can say is: if this shuts up the "I want to play a terrible game but don't want to pay for it" rejects, great. I doubt it will though. They won't be happy until this game goes f2p permanently. Which, to be honest, it is probably on its way there since it was such a big flopping failure and its small community seems hell bent on further damaging the game rather than helping it to succeed.