What are you paying a subscription for?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Just a genuine question to all the players out there.

You are paying ~$112 per patch (Almost triple that if you have max retainers).

For the price of a full AAA title, is the content that XIV offers you in a single patch worth its subscription cost?

Personally i would say no, its not.
I have the maximum retainers addition, and it costs me ~$350 per patch to say subscribed to XIV, that is the cost of 4 full priced AAA new release games, for what is around a month, maybe two, worth of content.
After realizing this, i can't in good faith keep throwing money at a product that isn't receiving enough attention by its developers, player numbers between major patches fluctuate to the point where the game becomes basically unplayable in places like Materia.

So what do you spend your $112+ on per patch cycle?

$350 a patch? I pay like... $160 a year lmao.


You are paying what, almost $90/month? How many accounts do you have? Max paid retainers is 6 + 12.99/mo. That's 24.99/mo. Not 90. That doesn't even hit $350 a year.