Scared about ARR

[Dannythm]

I think most people is misinterpreting my original post, I'm not saying I'm worried about SE planning on making ARR F2P, I'm talking about the mindset of the US/EU consumer base, which is rejecting any P2P mmo's currently.

I played Tera and a lot of other mmo and I know why they are becoming free to play, but there have been so many lately, and with the initial fiasco of XIV it may be that the consumers won't eve bother anymore to purchase any new MMO's feeling their investment won' be worth it, not even letting he game a chance because they assume how it will become.

It's good for SE to provide an open beta so everybody ca try it as a marketing scheme, but thy should give a unlimited free trial till lvl 20 or so like WoW does to convince the reluctant customers to see that the game is actually great.

[Radacci]

Good.. I'm glad all the cheap/retarded/childish/whiners will be going to TERA, and not running around in ARR.

you think people are not like that just cause they pay subscription?
there would just me more of everyone if it was f2p, and it's just that it's the whiners that are heard the most, so the more players, the more whining you get. but they will make up same % of population regardless if it's p2p or f2p.

[Pseudopsia]

Before going to work I created my character in Tera. First thing I saw was trash talk in general chat mostly complaining about Elin race, this is a good sign of a healthy F2P game . So I created an Elin character and left it dancing in front of the first quest NPC.

[ArkhamNative]

http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Roadmap_EN.pdf
Nowhere it says April/May. We only can guess.

We can go by SE's estimates. They gave start date and then week estimates for each phase and interphase. I overlaid the shortest and longest estimates:

It starts mid-Feb and each box is one week. The start of the month name marks the start of its month. Of course all of this is subject to change. There is no launch target that will force them to release a game that's not ready.

[ShinMetsu]

It's no big surprise really imo that all those games go f2p...
What do you do? Level up, Raid till you get best gear, and then PvP until you hit boredom.

Imo, that is the reason ffxi has such longevity, because it's such a long way with so many things to complete.
Multiple Jobs, multiple gear sets per job.. You're never really done gearing up, there's always a goal to chase.

At least FFXIV got multiple jobs.
Can you guys imagine if you only could pick 1 class? We'd be done so quickly and left with no goals...
*reason i'm in favor of gear swaps*

[Zehira]

Before going to work I created my character in Tera. First thing I saw was trash talk in general chat mostly complaining about Elin race, this is a good sign of a healthy F2P game . So I created an Elin character and left it dancing in front of the first quest NPC.

So, I have to play with little catgirls? You are killing me... xD

[Pseudopsia]

I can always reroll and pick a Elf with giant boobs, or a cute panda.

[Zehira]

Think I will create a panda soon. You have steam ID?

[Pseudopsia]

STEAM_0:0:34197390 I think.

[Zehira]

lol... that's what my steam avatar actually is... Panda! xD