Scared about ARR

[Dannythm]

Just read that Tera is going free to play in the US and EU, and people are commenting that they give ARR from 4 to 8 months after release to follow the same route as all the other MMO's the last years...

I fear for the mindset of the population, not about the quality of the game, that may force it's demise...

[Atamos]

When FFXI will be Free to Play then you'll have a good reason to worry.

[Munba]

When FFXI will be Free to Play then you'll have a good reason to worry.

This.

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[Enma]

Just read that Tera is going free to play in the US and EU, and people are commenting that they give ARR from 4 to 8 months after release to follow the same route as all the other MMO's the last years...

I fear for the mindset of the population, not about the quality of the game, that may force it's demise...

You shouldn't fear it. In the last years many MMOs have been forced to change their market plan to avoid bankrupt. There 2 main reasons to change from P2P to F2P:

1) An old game that is losing players, and want to keep them up as long as possible.
2) A failed game.

When FFXI will be Free to Play then you'll have a good reason to worry.

This is the most valuable proof about what I'm saying. I don't want to talk about P2P vs F2P, but if players pay a monthly fee and the game is full of people, there won't any reasons to change and go F2P.

[Morticous]

When FFXI will be Free to Play then you'll have a good reason to worry.

I get the sense that your implying FFXI would go F2P before FFXIV ever would.. I would say although likely, thats not exactly true. FFXIV could be a complete piece of garbage that SE basically abandons (as well as its player base) and then puts all their resources back into FFXI... A game that is soon to get another expansion and is still gaining brand new subs (and old returning subs) every day.

However, I also think that no FF mmo, unless built this way from the get go (But why??)... would EVER be reduced to F2P.

[Alerith]

When FFXI will be Free to Play then you'll have a good reason to worry.

This.

FFXI is still subscription based because it is a cut above almost every other MMO currently out. People whine and complain, but it's still a really good MMO for being 10 years old.

Enter FFXIV. Made by the same company, with a visionary producer. There is no way this game is going to go free to play either, when SE can still rake in subscriptions on their 10 year old MMO. Not to mention XIV needs to recoup its original losses.

XIV is going to be like XI in that it's going to be a cut above against other MMOs. I sincerely believe this is the case.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

It's going to be a long fight, because... look @ Rift, ppl say they being F2P, are they F2P?

[Pseudopsia]

SE has a brand image uphold. I seriously doubt FFXIV will ever go F2P because going F2P indicates failure, which is very bad for the final fantasy brand. It's the reason why FFXIV was rebuilt to restore to try to restore that image of quality of the brand.

[Kirito]

SE has a brand image uphold. I seriously doubt FFXIV will ever go F2P because going F2P indicates failure, which is very bad for the final fantasy brand. It's the reason why FFXIV was rebuilt to restore to try to restore that image of quality of the brand.

Exactly. I think SE would rather just scrap the project rather than go F2P. The lost of reputation if ff14 ARR failed (although it likely won't) and become F2P would be much greater than an any money they can retrieve from it as F2P. It would also likely be the end of any new final fantasy mmo... But that, of course, is if it fails and by the looks of it, it won't...

[Morticous]

first world problems. once people are scared for video games, you know something in the world needs to change.