Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
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.
You paid for access to the Expansion. That money covers your access to it, and its current content. Everything in post is extra, otherwise we should be paying alot more. We arnt paying nearly as much as we should be, but thats a different conversation, and frankly, Id rather have this Subscription Model then the Alternative of Paying for Everything...like having to pay for Patches as DLC. No Thanks.
They dont need to look at anything more then they are, FFXIV is not a SIngle Player Game, its an MMO, and it functions as one. It just has More ways to play it then being forced to play it like other games such as WoW.

And....Im sorry but comparing FFXIV to games like FFXV and FFXVI isnt a good argument. Because those are purely Single Player Game Experiences.
FFXIV is not. You have the ability to play it with Bots, but that doesnt make it a Single Player Game.