Quote Originally Posted by syntaxlies View Post
I believe it was you that was pushing hard for in game rmt a couple months so you could trade Gil for subscriptions. You could probably make enough money to play for a month if you beg out side of a 7-11 for 30 mins a month if your short on cash. I'm glad that se wants just monthly sub fee at this point and hope it stays that way. Most other games have all that cash shop, tiered membership, free to play, pay to win junk. I really just want to play a game with a straight forward subscription plan.
Aside the silly personal attack and second guessing that just shows how weak your arguments are, how exactly is the existence of *options* changing the straight forward subscription plan for you?

The existence of a lifetime subscription option does not in any way change the possibility of paying for your subscription monthly.

Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
It's not new because MMOs have done it before.
It's new because FFXIV and FFXI didn't do it before, and we know very well how some people here receive things that Square enix never tried. Because if Square Enix doesn't do it, it's not good.

Where's the guarantee the game will even last a year? Let alone multiple years to justify it? Will the benefits travel to FFXI when/if ARR shuts down prematurely and invalidating your lifetime sub?
Lifetime subs are a decision that lays on the customer. If you decide to support a product, it's your decision, no one forced you, and it's your sole responsibility.

Besides, anyone with half a shred of logic would know that the possibility of this game "shutting down" within a year is absolutely negligible. There are plenty options before that. At worst it would go hybrid, and even with a hybrid business model a lifetime sub retains its value.

It's not about "trying something new" it's about common sense, it's like SWTOR offering lifetime sub and we seen what happened
Only, they did not offer it. Oops.

Legacy.
Which is a radically different option, offered to a radically different target, and as such is comparing apples to escalators.