Free-to-play?

[MistakeNot]

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...

Main problem is that many Free-To-Play games introduce truely horrible grinds - worse than anything currently in FFXIV - and then allow people to pay to bypass most of it. So either grind or pay to ... not play.
As regards updates with new content? FFXIV currently gets that quite often compared to many other MMOs. It could very easily be much, much worse.

[Khemorex]

the day where ffxiv goes f2p is the day where ill stop to play it ^^

and no i dont want f2p , u will only end up paying way more then a sub :P and get less content, and more cash shop items.

edit : and no i dont see ffxiv going f2p any time soon , what ever reasons someone thinks there might be , its like saying that earth was visited from aliens in ancient age :P

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Gotta love Chinese whispers/rumours/telephone.

[Dzian]

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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...

The problem is free to play so easily becomes pay to win. And in free to play things are designed in such a way so as to encourage you to buy your way through.

If you took for example the aether/light grind step on anima weapons end of heavensward and converted it to a free to play equivelant
You'd likely find you needed to grind 10,000 points of aetheric condensation instead of 2,000 points.

Or you could could "optionally" buy an item from the cash shop for say $4.99 that gave you those 10,000 points when used. or maybe even smaller one for $0.69 that gave you a thousand points. and players could buy 10 of them if they wanted.

A similar thing might have existed with the initial fate step for the crystals. the drop rate might have been worse leaving you grinding even more fates or you could pay $1.99 for a set of 3 crystals from one of the 6 zones...

All The grinds would be all be extended for the sole purpose to make those boost items look more appealing. And often in doing so the game becomes pay to win. Because those who pay would inevitably have the best equipment a hell of a lot faster than those who didn't

Then people try to deny it's pay to win because those items can be obtained through game play without paying. But the way to attain is deliberately made so high or time intensive that its really not a viable option..

This is why so many people hate free to play and avoid it like the plague

[Rinuko]

If the game would go FTP i would probably still play since I enjoy aspects of the game still. But I wouldn't be surprised we got lesser patches, like every 6 months.

[Mature]

Should NEVER be free to play.... How do you keep the Devs interested in making something for free?

Please no thanks.

[Altena]

I thought retainer boosts were already a thing?

[Rinuko]

I thought retainer boosts were already a thing?

It is since 4.1

[Derio]

Game should never go f2p especially considering it at the highest amount of players it has ever been. I can see the game only getting better with the new game modes they are adding in.