Free Login Campaign

[Avenger]

I'm in favor of the two-week free login campaign, because the previous campaigns were laughably short and advertised "up to 96 hours" while omitting how you'd need to play for 4 days straight without sleeping in order to get those 96 hours.

But you raise a good point - it's disappointing for players who just resubbed and could have gotten 2 weeks of credit. Announcing it a couple of weeks in advance might cost a SE bit of money, but it would also mitigate the situation you ran into somewhat (even though resubs could still be on the edge, they'd get to play for the two weeks that they'd have to wait otherwise.)

It reminds me a bit of the story of Yoshi-p and the prodigal FFXIV player... Lucky returners get 2 free weeks, free trial gets extended through Stormblood, and what do loyal, long-term subscribers get? Nothing! Even the veteran rewards got nerfed. How is that even fair? ;-)

But it's also how they attract new players and returners into the game, so I can't really complain too much. Game is still fun, and I'll almost certainly play Dawntrail at launch (login queues permitting.)