Scared about ARR

[Issachar]

so in your mind Blizzard is close minded too for having an F2P model~

That's a poor retort if I've ever seen one :/

[Lady]

SQEX is too closed-minded to go F2P. FFXI's still making money somehow. They think ARR will magically have a great playerbase (lol). Yet let's look at Sega and PSO2. F2P with cash services and it is making boatloads of cash.

SQEX is too closed-minded because FFXIV is not a FPS! And they're too closed-minded because theres no Tauren race. And they're too closed-minded because I can't be a necromancer!

Yeah, how dare they not make this game have everything I want!

[Twiddle]

SQEX is too closed-minded to go F2P. FFXI's still making money somehow. They think ARR will magically have a great playerbase (lol). Yet let's look at Sega and PSO2. F2P with cash services and it is making boatloads of cash.

Just saying reputation > cash
going f2p = - reputation

[indira]

SQEX is too closed-minded to go F2P. FFXI's still making money somehow. They think ARR will magically have a great playerbase (lol). Yet let's look at Sega and PSO2. F2P with cash services and it is making boatloads of cash.

PSO a different kind of game its built around taking your money like planetside2. watch when sega starts to lose player base there gonna pull the plug like PSO.

[Reinheart]

Final Fantasy title should be no problem staying P2P... look at how many weirdo's out there buying the same Final Fantasy 1 every time it's re-released..... (I'm one of those weirdo's... orz) FF has a huge fan base, I bet it won't go F2P.

[Radacci]

i played f2p games that suck terribly, but are still going.
even if ff14 went f2p it still wouldn't fail. 1.0 was fail, and still had quite a lot of players.
f2p games make company more money. but hopefully they wouldn't put out stupid cash items, like increase meld chance, and you cant break item if you fail meld. that would quickly make IRL rich people have 5x meld sets.
i'm not worried anyways.
reason tera is f2p is i guess simply not many ppl play it, and it wasn't such a known game anyways. Many people i mentioned it to, had never heard of it. FF is very known brand, so i doubt it's gonna go the same way.

[Pwnagraphic]

Just read that Tera is going free to play in the US and EU, and people are commenting that they give ARR from 4 to 8 months after release to follow the same route as all the other MMO's the last years...

I fear for the mindset of the population, not about the quality of the game, that may force it's demise...

Heeeh.. I dunno. Never played Tera so I can't make a judgement off of it, but I didn't see that game being real popular anyway. Some of these companies pay reviewers, streamers, etc to hype their game up sometimes which I felt Tera had a lot of. Just overrated hype..

Another thing that FFXIV has on its side is the PS3 version. There's actually quite a few people who were interested in the PS3 version of the game and still are. People want an MMO on the PS3/ consoles and that was proven with DCUO it's just that SOE couldn't on to their player base after end game. SE just needs to grab the audience and hold them. I think they'll do just fine, but only time will tell.

[Ticks]

I wouldn't want to see ARR going F2P. I would rather pay every month and have SE give us support teams to maintain the game and developers to design new content. I want the game I plan on spending hours enjoying be financially able to grow over the years. When television is F2P - you get local channels...when you pay for cable or satellite - you get the world.

[Xatsh]

Tera is a dying mmo ( it has failed in literally every market it has released in) therefor they are going f2p to try to save it. Battle system is probally one of the best in the genre... everything else in that game is horrible. Same as EQ2, SWToR, and many other mmos that were once p2p. The company that made Tera does not have the capital to fix the mess they made. That game has potential but needs so much more work... the investors are getting angry so no more money is flowing in.

If XIV 2.0 loses subs like version 1.0 does they will probably make it free to play and run it on a skeleton crew. Can't cancel a numbered title this soon. If this happens the game is pretty much over though.


Honestly I hope this game just shuts off if it fails. This f2p madness that is spreading needs to stop. The model is just bad for the player and is just so the devs can make a quick buck at players expense. The negatives of F2P (including the fact the game cost more to actually play... so not really free to play) far outweigh the negatives of p2p.

[Zantetsuken]

When all is said and done, FFXIV might be the most expensive game ever made, so F2P isn't an option for SE.

Not only that, but a change to F2P is often seen as beginning of the death of an MMO game, which is the LAST thing FFXIV needs considering the 1.0 reception.

If SE wants to make this game great, it should actually charge a bit more the average market subscription price.

People who pay more for the game will value it more, and the composition and attitudes of the FFXIV community will be generally better than any cheaper P2P or F2P game.

And that will result in a growing number of people who tell their friends to join, and less players that want to quit for something else.