Thread: 4.2 changes & monthly fee

Originally Posted by SigmaOZ

SE has slowly begun to kill Final Fantasy XIV, it will sooner or later go Free to Play, too many changes with the Cash Shop and Account-Wide codes becoming Single-Character!...

SE is trying badly to squeeze our wallets without making the game any better!...

This has been said since the cash shop launched in 2.0. The game is still not F2P. The game is still not dead. In fact, 4.0 was widely more popular than 3.0. Doom and gloom has been present since the beta 2.0 forums lol.

I'd argue the 50% increase in non-instanced personal inventory is a game improvement, as is the (somewhat lacking but better than what we had) start of the new glamour system. Just because you aren't getting explosive changes immediately does not mean they are not improving the game.

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I didn't specifically mean 2.0 lol, just that era. My friends and I never use the .x to describe an entire expansion, just the base.

That's fair, a lot of people probably do the same. I just feel it's a reasonably important distinction in this case, 2.0 and 2.4 were over a year apart after all.

A year in which a financially successful triple A subscription MMO existed, despite what some people reckon is impossible these days.

Did you think about this thread before you made it? I mean really sit back and think long and hard before you hit Submit.

Originally Posted by SigmaOZ

SE has slowly begun to kill Final Fantasy XIV, it will sooner or later go Free to Play, too many changes with the Cash Shop and Account-Wide codes becoming Single-Character!...

SE is trying badly to squeeze our wallets without making the game any better!...

I guess you'd better abandon ship and leave the rest of us to sink in peace then.

Thing is, the housing restrictions were very much needed, and not because some random player wanted access to housing on an alt when the game doesn't let you set alts as tenants. It was needed because of the rampant problem of flippers and hoarders that could be seen on every NA/EU server, and keeping many, many players from having access to housing at all. So... we're now expecting bad behavior to be rewarded by letting the flippers and hoarders pay less per month to make up for restrictions placed on all service accounts because of their actions? Nope. Not likely to happen, and IMO doesn't need to. The restriction is being placed to improve quality of life/gameplay for everyone.