WARNING: Server Shutdown!

[Fusionx]

Uldah will be missed... by some.

The three cities will be largely unchanged in 2.0

[JeanFrancois]

This is really sad. I started maybe a month ago, am only level 32 arch, and a few lower levels harvesting classes. This game is just starting to get really exciting for me. The linkshell I'm in is great--I am starting to make friends.

While I would like to say the downtime won't matter. To be honest after a month I don't know how I will still feel about this game. If we have to wait months, that is a big chunk of entertainment time. Bad position... The GW system never entertained me and WoW is aging and (so I've heard) is a very different beast.

(edit: I did not know about 2.0 when I bought the game.)

[Lux_Rayna]

Surviving isn't an issue. Moving on and no longer caring about the game, that's the issue SE should be worried about.

Someone would have to be 3 kinds of stupid to subscribe this long due to the promise of 2.0, then never come back once 1.0 goes offline. I mean would anyone honestly pay monthly to wait for a game, then decide they can't be assed to wait for free? LOL. I'd say the game is better off without morons wouldn't you?

As for the wait I don't care because ill be playing GW2 til 2.0 comes out.

[Viritess]

I'll also be playing GW2 during the downtime, and beyond likely. One of the few chances to have what i think will be 2 very quality MMOs for a single low cost Sub (yay legacy).

Despite the hate for any non FF MMO that tends to bubble up i've never felt the need for any MMO i play to be of a certain type or style. it just has to be entertaining to me. Besides all the real life stuff to do, theres plenty of games to get my fix on with ^^.

[Atoli]

I have plenty of exams at the start of the new year so it's actually better if I study at the end of the year instead of playing FFXIV
I always un-sub for exams anyways but it comes with the bad feeling of missing something and it's always a hassle to get back into the game after a 1-2 month long period of absence.
With servers being down I know I'm not missing any content, no new people who I don't know joined the LS, etc.^^

I want this game to succeed so it needs proper testing, but still I hope they won't take too long otherwise people will start to lose interest and become too attached to the game and community they've played with during the down time (in GW2, Tera, or whereever).

[kazaran]

THe plan was to be shut down a month for data transfer and RRB software distribution PC side. It will take time for all that. Then more patching.

I doubt they will have to much down time for peopel who have purchased a game and service they expect to keep going. Some of us paid 79.99 USD at launch

[Cynthis]

They're more concerned about the hundreds of thousands of players that did this a long time ago than us.

Which is as it should be. However, no one has been able to give me any compelling reason for why in this particular case SE can't both have their cake and eat it too. If I accept that the data conversion takes one month then that is the maximum amount of time the game would needs to be down, as in we cannot play our existing characters and save progress. Seems like a lot of people are coming around to my opinion that it is likely that period will be more like 3 monthat at least.

Someone would have to be 3 kinds of stupid to subscribe this long due to the promise of 2.0, then never come back once 1.0 goes offline. I mean would anyone honestly pay monthly to wait for a game, then decide they can't be assed to wait for free? LOL. I'd say the game is better off without morons wouldn't you?

I for one am really enjoying the game as it is now and I have been ever since I started playing it seriously about a year ago, if I had not been enjoying it, I would not have started to pay when the subscription fee was introduced. In that case I would simply have stopped playing to come back when the 2.0 free trial came around.That does not mean i believe people who made other choices stupid though, I try to avoid name calling.

[Akujin]

I may have to go with another poster's thought and just play GW2 or something else during the downtime. As much as playing Beta sounds nice, I dont really see a point, for myself personally. Its good for the testing purposes, stress tests and getting player feedback on things from consumer to developer perspective. But I dont see a point in doing anything that wont carry over to the main launch itself from Beta, even if I do it with the same character as I play now, unless for some odd reason they make it so it Will cross over..gil, inventory, experience, etc. That I'd consider, otherwise, just play another game and wait till the relaunch goes live and jump back in then.

Then again, my stance my be a little different than others, because I'm far from addicted to the game and have gone a week or more at a time without coming in game at all, just either out of lack of desire or due to other obligations, it doesnt phase me like it did in XI. Thankfully.