The Lessons Not Learned.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

But you already paid for that content. Each expansion costs $40 and has as much content as you'd expect from a $40 game towards the end of its cycle. If you were a long-time subscriber, you paid $40 several times over just from buying those expansions. What's the sub fee for? Servers? That comes with the territory of having an online game. You don't need to pay a subscription for many other online games. Patches? What exactly are we getting from patches that can't come from the purchase price? Each expansion has a low amount of multiplayer content on release, and the devs trickle out the rest over time.

If they want FFXIV to become like all the other numbered Final Fantasies, they need to look at how they work. You do not need to pay a sub fee for FFXV, you pay for the game and its DLC. I assume that FFXVI will be the same way.

So you know how f2p games have loot boxes and worse RNG and pay to make RNG better mechanics?

Imagine a world where you have to pay to see a chance at loot in savage, or it's got gear drop rates like ex mount whistles.

Imagine if, instead of crafted glams, loot boxes.

F2p games are terrible. There's a reason people say they spend more on f2p games than sub games.


Crafting? Need a craft boost or you can't get above 15% hq chance. Melding? Same thing.

People really don't understand what it means to be f2p.