Free-to-play?

[dinnertime]

The only time FFXIV went F2P was because of 1.0, and that's because there were a lot of things wrong with the game.
I doubt they'll do it again now.

[Felis]

free2try is the nearest you can get as free2play

[Ayasaki128]

portuguese as well (just text, not voices)

If this game have portuguese text JUST in msq could be very nice. I dont need the whole game translated, just msq to understand more the story.

[ElazulHP]

I'd probably quit the game if it ever went F2P tbh.

[Aylis]

I've heard about a possibility to make FF14 a free-to-play game. I wanted to say my opinion: "Stop. Making FF14 a f2p game is a terrible, terrible idea". I think it would bring less maintenance to the game and, eventually, it's end. And I don't want FF14 to close (or to end like FF11 did).

I'm kinda curious to where you got the assumption it would bring less maintenance to the game when the more well known and played FTP games do weekly maintenance to the games. Also more or less the reason why FFXI ended the way it did was as a game itself, its terribly outdated. It can't attract new players due to the sheer mountain that needs to be climbed to advance in the game, unless that player has established friends that play. Something FFXIV or any other modern FTP game where no matter who you are you can just jump right in and play and advance with no trouble has. That said do I think FFXIV will go FTP? Nah, it has enough fans and people that play it on name alone, it will survive.

[BigRed5392]

I'm kinda curious to where you got the assumption it would bring less maintenance to the game when the more well known and played FTP games do weekly maintenance to the games. Also more or less the reason why FFXI ended the way it did was as a game itself, its terribly outdated. It can't attract new players due to the sheer mountain that needs to be climbed to advance in the game, unless that player has established friends that play. Something FFXIV or any other modern FTP game where no matter who you are you can just jump right in and play and advance with no trouble has. That said do I think FFXIV will go FTP? Nah, it has enough fans and people that play it on name alone, it will survive.

ff11 is still active

they changed the game a lot, such as removing the locks on content, and adding the trust system. you can go from 1-99 easy solo now cuz of the amount of systems on place.


also i played a large number of fp games and they rarely get updated. the week maint is mostly to shut the servers down, do repair work. Most western mmo do it once a week.

[Aylis]

ff11 is still active

they changed the game a lot, such as removing the locks on content, and adding the trust system. you can go from 1-99 easy solo now cuz of the amount of systems on place.


also i played a large number of fp games and they rarely get updated. the week maint is mostly to shut the servers down, do repair work. Most western mmo do it once a week.

Same can be said for Everquest 1 and other games from the period. They changed a lot to the game to make it new player friendly, but even with those changes there was no wave of new players beating the doors down to the servers looking to play them. Also I've played a good number of FTP games and they're always being updated. It might not always be in the form of major content. Those kinda updates come maybe every couple of months. The regular updates are more or less mini events and things to keep players busy and active while waiting for major updates.

[BigRed5392]

Same can be said for Everquest 1 and other games from the period. They changed a lot to the game to make it new player friendly, but even with those changes there was no wave of new players beating the doors down to the servers looking to play them. Also I've played a good number of FTP games and they're always being updated. It might not always be in the form of major content. Those kinda updates come maybe every couple of months. The regular updates are more or less mini events and things to keep players busy and active while waiting for major updates.

mini events to get you to spend cash when ppl talk updates they mean major patches. i played 28 f2p mmo.

[Namida-Hikari]

Why people are so afraid of the word "Free-To-Play"...? If a good game goes free to play, it will still be a good game. And I know some FtP that are great and have many updates. I'm more inclined of spending real money on cash shop or cosmetics when the game is free to play. And I'm not the only one. Afraid of the lack of update with new content...? Well it could hardly be worst than what we have now with a sub...

[Enla]

Why people are so afraid of the word "Free-To-Play"...? If a good game goes free to play, it will still be a good game. And I know some FtP that are great and have many updates. I'm more inclined of spending real money on cash shop or cosmetics when the game is free to play. And I'm not the only one. Afraid of the lack of update with new content...? Well it could hardly be worst than what we have now with a sub...

SWTOR is pretty much a prime example of why going F2P is a bad idea and also a prime example of just how lacking in content a game can be when they rely on other methods to get their money. They haven't offered Operations in a LONG time and even their single player content is lacking. That game also has probably the ultimate variety when it comes to items to spend your money on and yet it's not enough to produce results as EA continuously lets the quality flounder. Also people keep saying we have a dirth of content in this game and yet comparatively to most titles I've been a part of we're actually going quite well with consistent quality and regular updates. Coming from Lotro and SWTOR it's like night and day. Especially the former as most of that content was so hit and miss after the Rohan expansion that they never decided on a clear direction for it to take. One patch it's all single player instances, the next it's required multiplayer to appease those they left behind, and back and forth until it drove you absolutely mental. Yet even then the content was spaced out by months or YEARS and fed to you in such a slow drip that it solidified my current burning hatred of WB. The game only /just/ got to Mordor this year. THIS YEAR.

Also there's one other reason this game will never /ever/ go free to play, and that's because it's currently the source of much of SE's current funding. Yoshi-P had to beg to access the money needed to move the servers and perform certain upgrades because most of it just goes straight back into SE's coffers to help them create other games like FFXV.