Would you have paid monthly for FFXIV if it was released the way it is today?

[Robbie]

Yeah gotta say i would

[Rubicon]

Yes but only if I had no foreknowledge of the game before.

No because after going thru a year and a half of this with no serious progress on 1.0 other than being a battle mechanics testing server, I am bored and frustrated. The game never felt right and when 2.0 was announced it was clear that 1.0 is not the real game. I stop pretending this was the real FFXIV a long time ago. You are only testing battle mechanics against time-killing bosses and quests until 2.0.

[AmyRae]

Well, this is going to be terribly one-sided since people who aren't planning on paying probably aren't showing up in the forums anymore.

Is 1.20 better than release? I'd say so.

But when it comes to being good enough to pay for, you're not really paying for a full game. There isn't much substance to the world. There aren't a lot of stories or quests to sink your teeth into. There aren't any strong characters in the game you'd pick for inclusion in Dissidia, as one interview noted. There are still responsiveness issues that can't be fixed without a revamp. We're still using a controller UI in a mouse platform world.

What you're really paying for, in my opinion, is a leg up when the real game starts in 2.0 and everything that's lacking is finally set to right. But I certainly wouldn't want to introduce someone new to FFXIV and expect them to pay for it until then.

[redmage]

Absolutely. I was discussing the game the other day on another board and someone reminded me about the random SP rewarded during battle. I had completely forgotten about that horrible system and it feels absurd that we actually had to experience that.

[KitCat]

Yeah definitely, I'm having fun, even if it's impossible to get an ifrit/moogle party when noone wants a mrd with no primal fight experience :/

If it was released in the state it is in now, and then we had a year of content updates on top of that we'd have a pretty solid game.

Assuming yoshi was at the helm from the start of course.

[Fleur]

Though I will not be paying in January, if the game had been released as it is now and everyone was starting fresh, I think I would have. The game would not have hemorrhaged players as badly, and the planned patches could have helped a lot to keep my interest over time. As it is now though, it feels like SE is playing catch-up in terms of content and is perpetually behind.

The game is still incomplete in some ways, but I like the world and the graphics and the general feel of it enough that I would have paid even so.

[Jynx]

Personally? Yes, this is plenty for a Vanilla release. If powerleveling wasn't such an issue the game as is if launched would have kept me busy for a few months.

So sans powerleveling, Yes I would pay for this game if it was released in this state: Also the reason I will pay when they ask to subscribe.

[Kymusashi]

/yes, because it would probably be a lot better had it been released in this form. Starting off with current battle mechanics would have been perfectly fine, and there's be enough content to make the game feel more adventurous.

As is right now, as a sudden shift, it's debatable.

[Corrderio]

I'm still on the fence about it. My biggest complaint is Yoshida still hasn't tried to come up with a way to discourage class stacking. Which I find kind of sad from a producer that plays MMOs as a hobby.

[Lucifer]

>Implying 2.0 is an expansion.

No. It's Final Fantasy XIV-2