Free-to-play?

[Con_Carne]

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).

However, maybe there are other ways where you could change. No f2p, but other ways.

1. Possibly not a good idea, but reducing the subscription prices. Not so much, but a little... But no. This is maybe not a good way. I don't know.

2. Include new languages. Yes, I'm Spanish and I want the game not only in my language, but in italian, portuguese as well (just text, not voices). By this way, you could reach new players. I know many people doesn't play just because the game is not in their own language (Spanish for example).

3. Retainers:

3.1. More free retainers. Currently, we can have a maximum of 2 free retainers, while getting more increasing our sub payment. Maybe you could change this by allowing players to have at least one or two more free retainers.

3.2. Retainers boost. I've seen you have included in MS a boost for retainers. Remove it. Boosts are for new players who want to play with their veteran friends at the same level, not for NPCs. Remove this and give retainers their own leveling system, so we can level them as BTN at 70, change them to MIN 1, and when we change them back to BTN, they are already at 70 because we already leveled them to BTN 70 before.

4. Seasonal event items. Maybe you could remove all previous seasonal event items from MS and make them always available when their event is up, along with the new items of course. So we can farm Haunted Manor not just for the new items, but for the old ones as well.

[silverlunarfox]

I've heard about a possibility to make FF14 a free-to-play game.

No you haven't. It's been firmly repeated it will never go F2P.

1. No. They already have two "tiers" of sub pricing
2. I'm for this
3.1 I'd like to see 3 free at this point.
3.2 I'm fine with the boost. It's a good way to boost a newly purchased retainer.
4 I'd agree with this if they were priced high as a means as a gil dump. It would also keep people playing whatever special event is up aside from the first day.

[ManuelBravo]

Where do people keep hearing about this F2P? if it's not from SE news or have some sort of proof to post stop posting. It's a useless to believe it without actual proof. If someone is trolling SE I'm sure they would to see the proof as well.

[popotaro]

Where do people keep hearing about this F2P? if it's not from SE news or have some sort of proof to post stop posting. It's a useless to believe it without actual proof. If someone is trolling SE I'm sure they would to see the proof as well.

Yoshi said that "if players want the game to go F2P, he would think about it" because some dude asked that question. That doesn't mean the game is going F2P nor that the players have been requesting it. Yet people doesn't seem to understand and spread that shit all over Internet. It's not even a possibility. Stop spreading that BS already pls

[ManuelBravo]

Yoshi said that "if players want the game to go F2P, he would think about it" because some dude asked that question. That doesn't mean the game is going F2P nor that the players have been requesting it. Yet people doesn't seem to understand and spread that shit all over Internet.

To be young and naive, can you tell where the link or the date of the broadcast for that?

[popotaro]

To be young and naive, can you tell where the link or the date of the broadcast for that?

I remember seeing that on youtube earlier this month. As for when.. It was definitely before we got the 4.10 patch. But I do remember that Yoshi NEVER even said that it was a possibility. Just that if the playerbase were requesting it, they would "think about it". That's it. No possibility or nothing. And those youtubers are spreading that hoax too -_-

[Kurando]

To be young and naive, can you tell where the link or the date of the broadcast for that?

Here's a link for you.

https://gamerescape.com/2017/10/03/y...del-for-ffxiv/

[ManuelBravo]

Here's a link for you.

https://gamerescape.com/2017/10/03/y...del-for-ffxiv/

https://gamerescape.com/2017/10/03/y...del-for-ffxiv/

Thank you had not seen this one. Hmmmm 80-90% percent want it F2P hmmm wow well other regions based on what they pay monthly would explain that. Then again it's gamersescape I'm not too fond of their articles.

[Rinuko]

Here's a link for you.

https://gamerescape.com/2017/10/03/y...del-for-ffxiv/

Two things to add, if anyone here is a Limit Break Radio listener they had an interesting point on last week episode - if Yoshi say this in a interview they already are considering it, they are talking about it! Other wise they would not casually say it to the public cause we will take their word for it. Just like with jump potion, Yoshi had stated it wouldn't happen until 5.0 but we all know what happend with that don't we.

Secondly, can we all stop calling it rumors and fake news? If our dear Yoshi said in a legit interview it a high possiblty it can happen, granted they get 80+ % of the base. Problem is in the bottomline money.

Square Enix is a company (yeah i know shocker) and if they see a trend where they can make much more money on micro trans, then they obviously going to consider it more serious than making 10M USD (a number i've seen somewhere, maybe not accurate) every month on the concurrent subs they have now. No they don't have 10M active subs.

[Aramina]

To be young and naive, can you tell where the link or the date of the broadcast for that?

https://gamerescape.com/2017/10/03/y...del-for-ffxiv/