Scared about ARR

[Linkurrra]

Well SWTOR, wasn't that bad of a game. It was just ruined by EA's grubby hands. Their tendencies to take anything they get their hands on and try to convert it to a system for maximum profit despite hot it ruins gameplay. They could have fixed what was broken, but instead they decided to rehash the entire game for the potiential of gaining profit. Which made the game worse!

SWTOR was just biggest financial flop from a game developers point of view. What should have been a sure thing and an instant cash cow was corrupted and twisted by the EA Empire! Dark side indeed!

F2P games means, even if they still allow in game currency to be earned, HUGE amounts of time and grinding to earn the simplest things to buy. Economy immeadiately going to pot because they usually allow you to buy in game money with real money. Not only to stem RMT but it's more cash in the game developers pocket!

[Morticous]

Hate this harping on "first world problems" like we should be ashamed that we don't live in squalor, and have to worry about some guerilla taking our food.
Hey! guess what! All the posts on this forum are First-world problems...

I doubt the original post is literally scared in the sense that you WANT to assume he/she means.

1. I image the OP in a corner curled up shivering in fright typing this post on a sad little laptop in the dark.
2. Scared means scared, if you say your scared, then thats what it means, if your not scared, dont tell people your scared.
3. People, please find new topics.. there is like 5 billion F2P topics on this game already. Try talking about... Miqote butts for example.

[Lady]

1. I image the OP in a corner curled up shivering in fright typing this post on a sad little laptop in the dark.
2. Scared means scared, if you say your scared, then thats what it means, if your not scared, dont tell people your scared.
3. People, please find new topics.. there is like 5 billion F2P topics on this game already. Try talking about... Miqote butts for example.

....I think I hear your mothership calling


Back on topic: Have to agree that if anything, FFXI will go F2P first before this does. Or at least a scaled down version of it.

[Molly_Millions]

Try talking about... Miqote butts for example.

there is a thread on that too:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...59150-Mi-qotes

[Meatdawg]

Not going to happen.
Not worried/skurred.
Have faith in Yoshi
Am hungry

[Platinumstorm]

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...

TERA is terrible; like atrociously bad.

FFXIV was atrociously bad, and it remains to be seen how XIV will be in the future.

[Sartori]

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...

GW2 another Free too play, excellent game too, been having a blast playing it. No stress at all, no drama, nothing like 1.0 was...

[Zehira]

Nah... I am not scared, you need to relax. m(_ _)m

Final Fantasy community is getting more stupid and stupider to me...

[Pseudopsia]

[Elexia]

Tera was launched last year May 1st, they hit the f2p wall in less then 12months.
WoW has been p2p 2004 to 2013, no plan on f2p.
Rift has been p2p from launch till now, well over 2 years.
FFXI has been p2p for over 10 years.
FFXIV 1.0 had a longer p2p window than "Tera" January 1st to November 1st.

I can't say i am worried...

Let's think about this logically for a second though:

FFXIV 1.0 had a "longer P2P period" but it's population was also under 20k so they left it up for the dedicated fans, otherwise you forget that FFXIV was F2P for 2 years prior.

Tera is going F2P in Korea and Japan because quite frankly it failed. NA/EU is pending but it's pretty likely to be going F2P there as well.

XIV has the image of a failed MMORPG to try to erase, something that never happens in the MMO world because once your MMO is deemed a failure, it's pretty much dead in the water from there on out. So there's actually a lot for and against ARR in this light.

Any smart player will tell you that F2P is more expensive than P2P.
Go look on GW2... Currently 1/2 of the players agree that the company nerfs every single way of making money (and bans anyone who "exploits" any mistake the company makes), just because you can pay real money to convert it to game gold.
I hope FF14 never goes F2P

F2P and B2W is more expensive, that's why companies do it. They're not doing it for the players, they're doing it to make money.